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  5 Most Overpaid (and Underpaid) Jewish Charity Chiefs

  Matt Brooks topped the Forward’s list of most-overpaid non-profit leaders/Courtesy of Republican Jewish Coalition The Forward’s annual salary survey allows readers to see how much of the money they donate to Jewish charities winds up in the pockets of those group’s top executives. So whose pockets got the fattest? Matthew Brooks, head of the Republican…

  By Forward Staff

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  Tunisians Turn ‘Ashkenormative’ Judaism Upside Down

  A Tunisian Jewish family on the island of Djerba / Getty Images The Tunisian Ambassador to the United Kingdom recently came to the Chabad here in Oxford to give a Shabbat dinner talk. Needless to say, this event was not an ordinary Shabbat dinner by any means. After a meal of traditional Tunisian foods, the…

  By Jonathan Paul Katz Dec 15, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Why We Lost to BDS and 3 Ways To Win Next Time

  Getty Images On December 10, UAW 2865, the union representing 13,000 University of California graduate student workers, announced that a resolution to align with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel had passed a membership vote. This is the first American union to join the BDS movement, and the outcome is deeply upsetting…

  By Matty Lichtenstein Dec 15, 2014 | 5 min read

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  Beyond Ferguson and Staten Island, So Much Cause for Outrage

  You may have heard about that huge wave of labor protests that swept across the country on December 4. You know, the one-day surge of strikes and rallies in about 190 cities (!) by low-wage workers — fast-food, home healthcare, chain-store and airport employees, all demanding a $15 hourly wage, all complaining that their industries’…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 15, 2014 | 4 min read
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  Compare Your Salary to These Jewish CEOs

  Our annual Salary Survey shows that being a Jewish nonprofit CEO can be pretty darn lucrative. It sure puts to shame the median U.S. salary, which the 2013 Census calculates is $51,939. Type in your income and see how it stacks up against the median salaries of Jewish CEOs of advocacy and public service, federations,…

  By Maia Efrem Dec 15, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Must-See TV: Warren Slams Bank Bailout Bill

  Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor this evening, delivering one of the most powerful congressional speeches I’ve ever heard, attacking the provision in the omnibus government spending bill that amends the Dodd-Frank banking reform bill to restore the promise of taxpayer bailouts to big banks that lose money on crazy derivative gambling. “On Wednesday I…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 13, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Sen. Warren in Historic Blast vs. Banks. Video to Come

  Elizabeth Warren just delivered a slashing speech on the Senate floor about the Dodd-Frank rollback provision in the omnibus spending bill. She went through a list of Citigroup alumni holding top positions in the current administration, laid out the imperative for preventing the big banks from making the same crazy derivatives gambles that blew up…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 13, 2014 | 2 min read
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  How Bibi Might Win: Link to Bennett’s Settler Party

  As Israel’s March 17 snap election date approaches, the electoral map continues to change faster than Taylor Swift’s outfits. The ink hasn’t even dried on the merger between Tzipi Livni and Labor’s Yitzhak Herzog that vaults them to first place in the polls, but the Likud’s reply is already in the works. According to a…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 12, 2014 | 4 min read
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  My Iconic Mideast Photo Is Not a Fake

  As the photographer of the photo discussed in a December 12 article, “Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and a Heartbreaking One at That,” I am angered by the charge that the photo is “faked.” The article reveals a lack of understanding of the difference between a faked photo, which misrepresents reality, and a…

  By Ricki Rosen Dec 11, 2014 | 2 min read
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  New Quiz: Is Adam Levine on Sale?

  Getty Images Adam Levine, Golda Meir and a Nazi ad agency? Not to mention a giant pickle? Jump in!

  By Lenore Skenazy Dec 11, 2014 | < 1 min read
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  Who’s To Blame for Ziad Abu Ein’s Death?

  (JTA) — Here’s what we know: Israel Defense Forces soldiers grabbed Palestinian Authority minister Ziad Abu Ein during a scuffle at a West Bank protest and tear-gassed him. He died en route to treatment at a Ramallah hospital. Abu Ein, the P.A.’s minister in charge of opposition to Israel’s West Bank settlements and security barrier, was…

  By Ben Sales Dec 11, 2014 | 2 min read