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Our 2011 Passover Coverage — A Roundup
News At BYU Seder, Mormons, Dip, Eat, Sing Their Own ‘Dayenu’ By Gabrielle Birkner 300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi By Nathan Jeffay Opinion From the Civil War to Our Seders, a Song of Redemption By Aurora Mendelsohn Going From Egypt, Hoping for Elijah’s Coming By Leonard Fein Leaving the Door Open…
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Bieber Knocks ‘Em Dead in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv became Teen Aviv last night, as most of the adult population took cover and girls from across the country headed for Hayarkon Park to see Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber. The 17-year-old sensation sang and danced for an hour-and-a-half as his fans sang along and screamed. They hung on his every word, jumping, chanting,…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: JVP and BYU
In this edition of the Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Gal Beckerman, a staff writer, about Jewish Voice for Peace’s campaign for acceptance within the Jewish community and with Gabrielle Birkner, director of digital media, about the tradition of Passover Seders at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts…
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House Newcomer Defies GOP Leaders on Israel, From the Right
For those who know him, it was no surprise when freshman Rep. Michael Grimm broke ranks with his party and became the first House Republican to call for the release of Jonathan Pollard. The freshman member from New York has made Israel a key element of his political work. And while the Republican House leadership…
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At BYU Seder, Mormons Dip, Eat, Sing Their Own ‘Dayenu’
Inside the student center, the tables were set with all of the Passover staples: bitter herbs, haroset, parsley sprigs and salt water, a Haggadah at each place setting. By 6:15 on a recent Friday evening, the hall had filled up with college and graduate students, alumni, faculty and a smattering of “townies” — more than…
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JVP, Harsh Critic Of Israel, Seeks a Seat at the Communal Table
On a recent Wednesday night in New York City, Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization that critics label anti-Israel, made the case for her group’s main protest tactic: a targeted campaign of boycott, divestment and sanction — or BDS, as it has become known — against Israel’s occupation of the…
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300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi
Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The New York-born Glick is getting ready to lead world Jewry in a Paschal sacrifice April 18, the first night of Passover. According to the Torah, the Children of Israel were commanded “in perpetuity” to sacrifice a young…
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U.S. Report Details Rights Abuses
An annual report by the U.S. Department of State on human rights in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza paints a stark picture of human rights conditions among minority populations in Israel, and Palestinian populations in the West Bank and Gaza. “Principal human rights problems were institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against Arab citizens, Palestinian…
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Sidney Lumet, 86, Prolific Director of Gritty, Realist Films That Captured the City
APPRECIATION Just after Sidney Lumet passed away, I received numerous e-mails from film students who fondly recalled his visits with them at Columbia University. A few remembered the emotional wallop of seeing “The Pawnbroker” for the first time, in my American film history course. Others praised Lumet’s humility and candor after a preview of “Night…
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All Bottled Up
It’s a constant worry to most environmentalists. A plastic bottle discarded today is likely to be intact in a landfill hundreds of years from now. But for Haifa-based industrial designer Hadas Itzcovitch, the durability of those bottles has a silver lining. Itzcovitch, 30, is pioneering the bottles’ use in long-lasting and weatherproof outdoor art, and…
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Beyond Bal Tashchit
As we make plans to celebrate Earth Day 2011, we worry about radiation from a crippled nuclear plant in Japan. We face air pollution, species extinction, climate change. Major fish stocks are down 90%. And, more parochially, the Jewish community faces extraordinary stress and uncertainty. The federation system and many of our synagogues have lost…
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