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  Naomi Zeveloff Talks About Transgender Jews

  Forward editor Naomi Zeveloff talks about the groundbreaking series on transgender Jews in an interview with Sirius satellite radio. Click to listen.

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  Is Daniel Levy ‘Shylock’ of English Soccer?

  If you habitually discard the sports section, you might have missed news of European soccer’s biggest transfer story since Cristiano Ronaldo left Manchester United for Real Madrid four years ago. It involves Madrid again, in fact – Tottenham Hotspur’s star winger Gareth Bale is rumoured to be on the verge of moving there for a…

  By Liam Hoare Aug 1, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Do Palestinian Long Faces Signal Breakthrough or Stalemate?

  It’s dangerous to read too much into body language on the television screen. Still, it was hard not to notice the contrast in demeanor between Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat as they addressed the press conference after their first round of peace talks June 30 at the State Department….

  By J.J. Goldberg Aug 1, 2013 | 4 min read

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  News Quiz: Cannes Heist, Glenn Beck in Utah

  Please note that this week’s news quiz does not contain any Anthony Weiner references… except in one question. Come on, what did you really expect? Besides, he’s in good company, sharing this quiz with Sacha Baron Cohen and, inevitably, perhaps, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, aka, Kate Middleton.

  By Lenore Skenazy Jul 31, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Primo Levi Was No Saint — But We Already Knew That

  Prisoner 174517 had a recurrent nightmare at Auschwitz. He dreamed that he had survived, returned home and told his family about his experience —yet nobody listened. That same prisoner, Primo Levi, who died a little more than 25 years ago, probably by his own hand, has now been subjected to a different nightmare: someone who…

  By Robert Zaretsky Jul 31, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Watch Kerry, Erekat and Livni on the Road Ahead

  Here’s today’s press conference at the State Department. Note how firm and detailed Secretary of State John Kerry was in his 11-minute presentation, how poetic Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s 4-minute remarks were (starting at 12:15) and how strikingly brief and downbeat Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was in his one minute and 10 seconds…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jul 30, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Transgender Camp Founder Talks Jewish Summer

  Nick Teich is the founder and director of Camp Aranu’tiq, the first summer camp in the United States that caters to transgender and gender-variant youth (that is, children whose gender expression does not conform to conventional ideas of masculinity and femininity). The camp takes its name from an indigenous Alaskan term for a person who…

  By Sarah Seltzer Jul 30, 2013 | 4 min read
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  Palestinians Want Vote on Peace Too — But How?

  Peace talks are due to properly restart today, but what lies at the end of the road if negotiators are successful? There has been much discussion of the Israeli cabinet’s decision on Sunday to advance legislation to ensure that any peace deal is subject to a referendum. If the legislation passes Knesset, a plebiscite won’t…

  By Nathan Jeffay Jul 30, 2013 | 2 min read
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  The American Jewish Way of Death

  In August 1963, “The American Way of Death” by Jessica Mitford sold out its first printing on its publication date and topped The New York Times best-seller list for weeks. Inspired by her husband, Robert Treuhaft, a radical Jewish labor lawyer who was an unnamed co-author of the book, Mitford brought a sparkling British wit…

  By Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips Jul 30, 2013 | 4 min read
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  Pamela Geller’s Intolerance Crosses Red Line on Bimah

  The recent decisions by a synagogue in Great Neck and another outside of Toronto to cancel appearances by anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller — both were rescheduled at other venues — have made headlines in the Jewish press and raised interesting questions for the Jewish community. There are important issues at stake here. They are not…

  By Eric Yoffie Jul 29, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Don’t Ban Pamela Geller — It’s Not Jewish Way

  The tradition of English liberty which runs through the political culture is a deep one, traceable back to John Milton’s Areopagitica, published in 1644, through Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. The nub of it was best put by Mill when he wrote, “If all mankind minus one, were…

  By Liam Hoare Jul 29, 2013 | 4 min read