The Forward swept the 30th Simon Rockower awards Wednesday night, winning a record 13 awards, including nine first-place honors that recognized journalistic excellence in every section of the weekly newspaper and the overall quality of its website, forward.com. The awards, honoring the best Jewish journalism published in 2010, were presented by the American Jewish Press…
Tanenbaum Holds Award Ceremony “At our headquarters… on 9/11 we lost people,” said Mark Wagar, president and CEO Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and recipient of the Corporate Bridge Builder Award, at the annual Award Ceremony and Memorial Lecture of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, held June 15 at The Pierre. “We had the…
The Milan Central Train Station is a grandiose building and a forceful presence at the heart of the city, used daily by 320,000 people. But this busy European railway hub harbors a dark history: Underneath the station, hidden from view, is the secret track used to deport Italian Jews to Auschwitz. Opened in 1931, the…
Orthodox rabbis fought it. Reform rabbis championed it. And when New York’s historic same-sex marriage bill was finally signed into law June 24, Conservative rabbis scratched their heads. Marriage equality is a done deal in New York — the law is set to take effect 30 days from the date it was signed — but…
It may be early in the presidential election cycle, but President Obama’s newly established re-election campaign is moving quickly to address Jewish concerns following the president’s clash in May with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. So far, despite the fireworks between the two leaders, the Democrats are pleased with the results of their approach. Based on…
Correction Appended WASHINGTON — Hadassah, the storied women’s Zionist organization, has shut down offices throughout the country and plans to spin off Young Judaea, its affiliated Zionist youth group, in part to offset recent financial setbacks, including a $45 million payment to the federal government related to its unwitting participation in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme….
Andy Stern has had a change of heart. Once the president of the most politically influential of America’s progressive labor organizations, and the most prominent Jewish leader in the labor movement, Stern now thinks he was too hard on private equity and banks. Stern is also backing a proposed tax break for American companies keeping…
Leah Koenig, author of the “Hadassah Everyday Cookbook,” and Forward Ingredients columnist, describes herself as 95% vegetarian, since she only eats ethically sourced kosher meat. So she understands the appeal of meat, but knows a whole lot about veggies. Here’s her meatless (and fake meat-less) barbecue menu: Main Dish: Grilled Portobello Burgers Marinate a Portobello…
Charlie Kleinman is the chef at San Francisco’s Wexler’s — a modern barbecue restaurant. (For those interested in New York Jewish history, Kleinman’s grandfather was the owner of the storied Lower East Side kosher Garden Cafeteria — which stood next to the original Forward offices and often hosted Jewish intelligentsia — from the 1940s through…
I think the Jolie-Pitts have got it right — Angelina and Brad, that is, and their enormous brood — in their jet-set outlook, in their joie de vivre, in the stir-it-up way they approach international child rearing. Could any other six children in the world claim such experiences? Granted, the majority of us don’t have…
For Jewish social service and advocacy groups, it is a good news/bad news sort of survey: Most young Jews volunteer for social projects, according to a recent, widely discussed poll, but few of them connect this with their Jewish identity, nor do many of them choose Jewish organizations as places at which to volunteer. The…
