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Banned Textbook Offers a Lesson in Mideast Politics
As Israelis and Palestinians spent recent weeks blaming each other for the breakdown in peace talks, they have found themselves in agreement on one thing: Education ministries on both sides have banned a history textbook that they deemed unsuitable for their students. What is found inside the textbook that has aroused the ire of education…
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Shas, Mixing Identity And Pragmatism, Holds Key to Israel Politics
As Israel makes decisions about the peace process over the coming weeks, all eyes are turning to the Sephardic-based Shas party, seen as holding the fulcrum of power to decide the country’s response to the Obama administration’s proposal for restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. With two ministers in the Cabinet, and a…
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Chasen Was a Hollywood Story, in Life and Death
One time at the Ghent Film Festival, blond-haired and blue-eyed movie publicity maven Ronni Chasen overheard an anti-Semitic remark from an organizer of the festival. She went up to him and announced, “I’m Jewish,” in her unmistakable Bronx accent. The offender was stunned — and he apologized. “That was her. She was very proud of…
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A Look at the Franken Files
Al Franken is a Jewish senator, but is he a senator for the Jews? The comedian-turned-commentator-turned-politician first became known as one of the Jewish writers for Saturday Night Live’s original cast, later performing in the sketch “Jew, Not a Jew” and developing the character of Stuart Smalley, a nervous self-help guru. Since then, as his…
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The ‘Cancellation’ of Heschel
Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Man — Forgetting “Imagining Heschel,” the Play As soon as I saw the ad for Colin Greer’s new play, “Imagining Heschel” — starring Richard Dreyfuss as the theologian whom Edward Kaplan, author of “Spiritual Radical, Abraham Joshua Heschel in America 1940–1972” (Yale University Press, 2007), heralds as “one of America’s…
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The Gift of Words
Books can be the perfect gift for Hanukkah. With the holiday quickly approaching, the Forward asked several authors, artists and editors about their favorite books by genre. Here’s what they said: Best Young Adult Book I am a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and horror stories were woven into the fabric of my childhood. But at…
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The Twisty History of Jewish Kid Lit
Bullying, suicide, abuse. In recent years, the genre of Jewish teenage literature has tackled subjects once considered so taboo, not even the most progressive authors would touch them. These “problem novels,” as they are called — exemplified recently by books like “Gravity,” by Leanne Lieberman, in which a teenage girl from an Orthodox family realizes…
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Linda Silver’s Picks for the Top Five Hanukkah Books
“The Stone Lamp” by Karen Hesse and Brian Pinkney. Hyperion, 2003 Eight powerful poems in free verse, arranged chronologically and told in the voices of Jewish children who lived during periods of crises in Jewish history. Each poem is accompanied by a succinct statement about the historical event and by dramatic illustrations. “In the Month…
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The Palestinian in the House
While we’ve been busy keeping track of how well Jewish candidates did in the November mid-term elections, James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, is counting representatives of Arab descent. His list includes Justin Amash, the new Republican to represent Michigan’s 3rd congressional district. Amash’s father immigrated from Palestine 54 years ago and settled…
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Ishmael Khaldi: A Bedouin, a Muslim And an Unlikely Israeli Diplomat
Ishmael Khaldi does not deny the difficult conditions of the Bedouin communities living in Israel’s southern desert, the most impoverished group in Israel. A Bedouin from the north of the country, Khaldi said that he donated 250 shekels — about $70 — to the residents of Al-Arakib, the unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev that…
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Pro-Israel Group Polls Palestinians on Peace Process
A new poll of Palestinian public opinion offers a mixed bag in terms of supporting the Middle East peace process. The poll, conducted by The Israel Project, a pro-Israel organization based in Washington, found support for peace talks and for the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, but also detected a reluctance to see…
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