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  Live Blogging Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly

  Despite the widespread system failures that deprived thousands of viewers live streaming footage of the Bill O’Reilly vs Jon Stewart smackdown your Forward live blogger was here glued to a computer that was working and plugged in and was live blogging it. 7:45 Tension is mounting as the first entertaining debate of the presidential election…

  By Dan Friedman

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  New Cause for Muslim Leaders: ‘Defamation’

  Something serious happened at the United Nations this September, and it should be getting a lot more attention than it’s gotten. A string of Muslim heads of state rose before the General Assembly at its annual summit and demanded that America and the West substantially abridge their notions of freedom and human dignity. What they’re…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 5, 2012 | 4 min read
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  Watching the Debate in a Swing State

  At the Republican debate watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida, Romney supporters were exulting. At the Democratic debate watch party ten minutes away, Obama supporters were getting into shouting matches with Republicans. The Democratic event, hosted by the Obama campaign in Florida, was held at a sports bar on a main drag in downtown…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Oct 4, 2012 | 2 min read

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  The Jewish Sulzberger

  In the many thousands of words written in The New York Times about its venerated longtime publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died on Sept. 29 at the age of 86, not a one mentioned his Jewish roots. Sulzberger’s paternal grandparents hailed from prominent Jewish families — one Ashkenazic, one Sephardic — and his father, Arthur…

  Oct 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Missing Contributor

  The October 5 article, “Haggadah Editor Admits Using Another’s Texts,” identifies three of the four contributors to the Haggadah: Jeffrey Goldberg, Lemony Snicket and Nathan Englander. It failed to mention the fourth contributor, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who, as a MacArthur Fellow, National Jewish Book Award Winner, Koret Prize winner, and author of nine books, is…

  Oct 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  An Oversimplification

  In his apparent drive to combat the real-world problem of anti-Semitic bias, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (“Fuel for the Days of Rage,” September 28) seems unfortunately — and ironically — oblivious to his own counterproductive stereotyping of another group: “political Islamists.” Without defining the term, he glibly suggests that those so identified seek, as an “annihilative…

  Oct 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  An Offensive Ad

  You have accepted an ad from the Republican Jewish Coalition (September 14 edition) that is loaded with innuendo and advances the name calling and rumor mongering that often characterize this political campaign season. The ad from Republican Jews is just one step from libel, but it makes it all the way to vulgar and demagogic….

  Oct 4, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  Some More Snap Thoughts on the Debate

  Was tonight’s debate a turning point in the campaign? Republicans believe it was, and that’s important. Republicans believe Romney won and they’re energized. The money that was fleeing Romney in the last several weeks is going to come back. Romney’s campaign was collapsing until tonight, and now it’s not collapsing anymore. He’s got a second…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 4, 2012 | 2 min read
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  First Thoughts on Tonight’s Debate

  The first presidential debate just ended and I’ve pressed the mute button on the remote control. Without listening to the yammering of the pundits, here are some of my immediate impressions. 1) Serious Energy Deficit: I’m not talking about economics here. I mean the basic level of emotion and personality and spunk expressed between the…

  By Gal Beckerman Oct 4, 2012 | 2 min read
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  Chabad Gets Students Tipsy

  This post was originally published by New Voices at their blog, The Conspiracy. Stay on top of this story and other news about and by Jewish college students at New Voices, home of the news and views of campus Jews. If administrators at Northwestern University have their way, Chabad’s days of operating openly on the…

  By David A.M. Wilensky Oct 3, 2012 | 4 min read
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  Haaretz Tweets That Haaretz Is on Strike

  Scanning our Twitter feed this morning we saw this unusual tweet from Haaretz, announcing that the paper’s employees were going on strike (the Forward has an online partnership with the Israeli paper in which we swap content). #Haaretz and The Marker have launched a strike, paralyzing the newsroom. We will resume updating when the strike…

  By Gal Beckerman Oct 3, 2012 | < 1 min read