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  Editor’s Choice: The Question of Loyalty and Iran

  The Forward is partnering with other Jewish newspapers to offer our readers a peek at some of the best stories from around the country, as selected by the editors at those papers. We will offer a selection of unedited links with brief introductions from the editors of the papers. Barack or Bibi? Trust, Loyalty and…

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  Fall of Mizrachi Singing Sensation Eyal Golan

  Eyal Golan, one of Israel’s most famous singers, is under house arrest, suspected of having sex with underage girls. Golan is a bestselling artist from the mizrachi or Eastern music genre, as well as being a television star. He has his own show, and serves as a judge on the talent show Rising Star. The…

  By Nathan Jeffay Nov 21, 2013 | 2 min read
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  American Tax Dollars Help Fund Hefty ‘Salaries’ for Jailed Palestinian Killers

  At a time of endless budget crises, the sequester, bursting debt ceilings, government shutdowns, and a default averted at the eleventh hour, it may astound many that American taxpayers are deploying their precious dollars in Israel not to pay for peace but to support terrorists and their families. Each year, American aid and financial programs…

  By Edwin Black Nov 21, 2013 | 4 min read

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• Alyssa Katz What I learned at a Holocaust survivors’ Purim party

  

• Rob Eshman Gavin Newsom isn’t waffling on Israel — he’s voicing sensible ideas in an era of outrage

  

• Dan Perry An abominable new Israeli law is a death warrant for democracy

  

• Emily Tamkin We must rewrite the rulebook for fighting antisemitism — or conspiracists like Joe Kent will win the narrative wars

  

• Jay Michaelson Passover’s 4 cups of meaning

  

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  Housewife From Cleveland Who Stole GA Show

  (JTA) — It was, perhaps, not the most auspicious setting for Ronit Peskin’s first-ever public speech. The 25-year-old self-described housewife stood in front of a crowded room at the biggest Jewish conference of the year, the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Jerusalem. She was about to verbally assail Women of the Wall…

  By Ben Sales Nov 20, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Millennials Must Grab Keys to Jewish ‘Car’

  As a first-year rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), I read a lot about the challenges facing “millennials.” With the recent outpouring of analysis relating to the Pew report on American Jewry, the amount of content may have quadrupled, but the number of young voices has not. I’m often frustrated…

  By Juliana Schnur Nov 20, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Stunning Nazi-Looted Art Find Reignites Question of German Restitution

  The recent revelation that German authorities discovered a treasure trove of presumed-lost masterpieces of art in the dingy apartment of a Nazi art dealer’s son has reignited the complicated issue of reparations almost 50 years after Germany declared its job of restitution complete. Though the legal ramifications are byzantine, it appears that officials have a…

  By Allison Amend Nov 20, 2013 | 2 min read
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  No Joke: U.N. Observes World Toilet Day

  The United Nations marked today, November 19, as the first-ever World Toilet Day. The event was organized by the government of Singapore. It is a subject that quickly invites jokes, as near every news report on the event has seen fit to emphasize. The New Zealand ambassador, who is speaking right now on U.N. TV…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 19, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Meet Max Levin, Teenage Stock Pick King

  Max Levin makes more money sitting in his high school math class than most people do during a day at their office. At 11, the Jewish boy from Voorhees, N.J., was making his first stock picks, guided by his grandfather, a day trader in New York City. Two years later, he used his bar mitzvah…

  By Anne Cohen Nov 19, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Why Rockets of Gaza Went Quiet — and Lessons Israel Can Learn

  November 14 marked the first anniversary of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel’s eight-day assault on Gaza with the declared aim of ending rocket fire on Israeli towns. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the occasion on November 12 with a visit to the desert headquarters of the Israel Defense Force’s Gaza Division and a speech to…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 19, 2013 | 4 min read
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  Ken Burns Teaches Jewish Side of Gettysburg

  Exactly 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln said: “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” On its anniversary, the Gettysburg Address, which is often considered the most important speech of American history, is anything but forgotten: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns launched…

  By Anna Goldenberg Nov 19, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Did You Get Invited to Obama’s Hanukkah Party?

  It’s time to check your inbox. The White House has sent out invitation for this year’s Hanukkah reception hosted by President Obama. It is a good way of measuring one’s status in the world of Jewish leadership. If you’re not invited to the White House reception you’re either from the wrong party (in that case…

  By Nathan Guttman Nov 18, 2013 | < 1 min read