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Moacyr Scliar, 73, Storyteller of Jewish Latin America
The death of Brazilian fabulist Moacyr Scliar, at the age of 73, on February 27, in his native Porto Alegre, represents the loss of Latin America’s most popular Jewish writer of his generation, and the most influential. Scliar engaged a large audience, at home and abroad, reflecting on crucial issues that define modernity: the place…
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A Case for Tradition
Last winter, while tucking into blintzes and borscht at our favorite greasy spoon in Manhattan’s East Village, my husband and I struck up a conversation with an older man sitting down the counter from us. He was a classic Woody Allen-era New Yorker: oversized glasses, rumpled shirt and a thick Brooklyn accent — sociable enough,…
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Forverts Cooking Show: Purim Feast
In this Purim episode of the Yiddish Forward’s online cooking show, “Eat in Good Health,” Rukhl “Ray” Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz prepare a Purim feast.
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Touring Montevideo’s Jewish Quarters
It’s a beautiful setting for such a poignant memorial: A rail line cuts through the grassy edge of the boulevard, overlooking the gentle waves of the Rio de la Plata, the wide, sealike river on Montevideo’s edge. Nearby, a high granite wall buffers a stone path leading to a chaotic plaza, the surroundings broken in…
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Congressmen Spark More Heat Than Light in Goldstone Report Debate
A debate about Israel in Greenwich Village, arguably the liberal heartland of the country, can really only end one way: with people screaming at each other. And so it was March 3, at an evening event billed as a “debate” between Brooklyn Congressman Anthony Weiner and former Congressman Brian Baird of Washington State at the…
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Throws Support Behind Israel Boycott
Roger Waters, founding member, vocalist and bassist of the iconic rock band ‘Pink Floyd’ has voiced his support for a cultural boycott of Israel. The British musician performed in Israel in 2005, ignoring calls from Palestinian rights advocates to cancel. While in Israel, Waters visited Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He was taken to the controversial separation…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: The Dearth of Female Bylines; How Independent Is the Jewish Press?
Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Sisterhood contributor Elissa Strauss about what top editors had to say about the dearth of female bylines in their publications. Then Josh is joined by news editor Larry Cohler-Esses and staff writer Nathan Guttman to discuss the recent firing of the editor of the Washington Jewish Week, and the questions…
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Why Liberals Should Be For Israel
The Wall Street Journal opinion page is one of the most reliably pro-Israel editorial pages in the country. When its deputy editorial page editor, Bret Stephens — who also has the distinction of being the youngest person ever appointed editor of the Jerusalem Post — spoke at Drexel University this week, he not only carried…
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A Jewish Claim to Human Rights
Human rights are breaking out all over. (When they’re not being tamped down and trampled, that is.) What role does Judaism play? Earlier this week at Cardozo Law School in Manhattan, the topic of human rights and Judaism was explored in a panel discussion involving three top legal minds as well as a history professor….
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Jews, North Carolinians, Democrats
When North Carolina’s largest city was named in February as the Democratic party’s choice for its presidential nominating convention in the late summer of 2012, Jews in the “Queen City” began giving some thought to their role. With a local Jewish community roughly the size of Obama’s slim margin of victory in North Carolina in…
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The Whole Megillah: A Weekly News Roundup
Here’s a look at what else is going on in politics, culture and media. Wisconsin: A Jewish fight Some Jews in Wisconsin are joining the protests in Madison, fighting against Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to eliminate most collective-bargaining rights for public-sector employees, reported the Jewish Standard. And why shouldn’t they, wrote Laurie Zimmerman in JTA,…
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