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A JCC Lures a Businessman Back Into the Fold
When Barry Finestone began working in the private sector in early 2005 after years of service in Jewish organizations, he thought that he had left the “old country” for good. “When I went out of Jewish work, I didn’t think I would get back in,” he recalled. “I was enjoying being out. I was very…
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Solar Panels To Bloom in the Negev as Israel Embarks on a Green Revolution
Four years ago, on the morning after Boston businessman Yosef Abramowitz arrived in Israel’s Negev desert for some rest and relaxation, he took a walk that changed the face of Israeli energy. “It was 5 a.m. I came out with my skin burning from the sun, and I said, ‘Wow, this place must be running…
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Senate Fight Over Arms Reduction Treaty Puts AIPAC in the Hot Seat
With ratification of the Russian–American nuclear arms-reduction treaty becoming a political football, pro-Israel groups are caught in the middle of a congressional showdown. The Obama administration, seeking to bolster support for Senate ratification of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, is privately urging Jewish groups to come out in favor of the…
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Hella Moritz, 81, a Pillar of the World Jewish Congress for Over 40 Years
Hella Moritz was many things to many people. But even though numerous documents key to Jewish affairs carried her handwritten initials, she insisted on being called a secretary. After more than 40 years of indispensability to four consecutive presidents of the World Jewish Congress, Moritz — a “towering figure,” in the words of current president…
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‘The Name of the Game’
Ask any woman what she wore to her prom, her wedding or any other memorable event, and she will describe it for you in excruciating detail. She may even pull the outfit from her closet and force you to admire it with her. Four-time Tony-nominated actress Tovah Feldshuh remembers her bat mitzvah dress: a white…
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New Attacks on Jewish Targets Rock Indiana U.
The desecration of holy texts was among three new attacks on Jewish targets at Indiana University that come in the wake of two earlier incidents. A rock was thrown Tuesday morning through the window of an apartment above the Chabad Jewish student center, located just off the university campus, nearly hitting a student and putting…
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Potato Latkes with a Side of Politics
It’s that time of year again, when Jewish politicos go latke-hopping from one Hanukkah event to another, making sure to be seen at the right menorah-lighting events. And there are many to choose from in the nation’s capital. First, naturally, comes President Obama’s Hanukkah reception at the White House. This is a tradition handed down…
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Polish Jews Embrace Job of Cleanup and Restoration
During a 1988 visit to Nowy Dwór Mazowieck, the town in central Poland where his Holocaust survivor father grew up, David Wluka found a child’s skull lying, unearthed, at the site of what was once the town’s Jewish cemetery. He picked up the skull and smuggled it into the United States. Wluka gave the skull…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: The Chasen Murder
Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward contributor Rex Weiner about the Jewish story of Ronni Chasen, a prominent Hollywood publicist who was recently murdered. Then reporter Joy Resmovits joins the conversation to discuss the Jewish job market, which is rebounding after a long period of hiring freezes. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
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With Student Help, Belarus Rescues Its Shtetl Graves
Somewhere beneath the birch trees lies the Jewish cemetery of Senno. The graves have been there for 350 years, but the markers are so sunken into the earth that they look like random stones. Moss covers the Hebrew letters, and few people know about the site, which is hidden from the road by the foliage….
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Raising Money, Teaching Kids: Jewish Hiring Rebounds Slowly
It was February 2010, and like many jobless Americans, Rabbi Avi Greene found himself in a bind. His digital day school startup venture had only half the funding it needed. He had been laid off from an administrative position at a Los Angeles Jewish day school almost two years earlier. So, with America’s unemployment rate…
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