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  Palestinian P.M. Backs Bank of Israel Chief for IMF Post

  Haaretz reports that the Palestinian Authority prime minister, Salam Fayyad, is endorsing the governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Fayyad says Fischer would make a “great managing director” for the world financial body and that he is a “superb human being.” The…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  Haaretz’s New Russian Co-Owner

  The Israeli paper Haaretz, reported yesterday that Leonid Nevzlin, whom I described last year as the Russian oligarch “who got away,” just purchased 20% of the company’s shares. Its value: 700 million shekels. This leaves the legendary Schocken family, owners of the paper since 1937, with a 60% stake (David Remnick recently had an illuminating…

  By Gal Beckerman Jun 12, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Weiner Mania: A Puny Vice Is Making Us Nuts

  After Nancy Pelosi asked the House Ethics Committee to look into the Anthony Weiner sex scandal, The Washington Post talked to the former staff director of both the House and Senate ethics committees, Robert Walker. He made the sensible point that there’s nothing to investigate unless somebody shows some evidence that a law or congressional…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jun 12, 2011 | 2 min read

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  Unemployment Is an ‘Ongoing Traumatic Stress Disorder’

  On a flight back from Israel several weeks ago, I had a brief conversation with my seatmate, an automotive parts salesman from London. We talked a bit about life in David Cameron’s England and then switched to Israel. That is when he startled me. I’d been describing how, within one 24-hour period, I’d heard the…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 10, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Russell Crowe To Play Foreskin Man

  The big studios seem to be running out of superheros for the summer movie season. They must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if the best they can do now is Thor and the Green Lantern. I have a solution: A brand new superhero, minted just last week, and a big, big Hollywood star…

  By Gal Beckerman Jun 10, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Israel’s ‘Mr. Security’ Goes Rogue

  Official Jerusalem has been thrown into a world-class tizzy this spring by what some top figures are calling a serious security breach, committed by one of the highest-ranking Israeli officials ever accused of endangering the Jewish state. There have been cabinet-level calls for his indictment. The Knesset is considering draconian new legislation to outlaw the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jun 8, 2011 | 4 min read
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  The Way We Eat

  Two images of America’s children this summer illustrate the sharp divide over the way we eat: The first is from one of the growing number of Jewish summer camps with a fresh emphasis on healthy diet and helping youngsters make informed choices about food. These camps are raising fruits and vegetables, reducing the amount of…

  Jun 8, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Men Behaving Badly Again

  As U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner joins the pantheon of powerful public figures making fools of themselves, we have to ask an obvious but discomfitting question: Why are they all men? Why does Time magazine’s list of the Top 10 Political Sex Scandals have nary a woman on it? There are plenty of foolish women in…

  Jun 8, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  A Note of Welcome

  It is my pleasure to welcome two new journalists to the Forward’s newsroom. You’ve seen Paul Berger’s byline on news and arts stories as a freelancer; he now joins the Forward as a full-time staff writer. A native of Leeds, England, Paul has served as the New York correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle; written for…

  Jun 8, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  The Republicans Heart Netanyahu

  When a group of student radicals took over the Columbia University administration building in 1968, they issued a series of demands having to do with university policies. The administration wisely ignored these demands, however, because it understood that, in actuality, they were not terribly relevant to the problem it had on its hands. As radical…

  By Eric Alterman Jun 8, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Backing Away from September

  There are those who heard in Obama’s speech on the Middle East an attempt – as Mitt Romney elegantly put it – to throw Israel “under the bus” and those who thought it was just the same old steadfast support for Israeli positions that every American president expresses. Both sides, it’s clear, seem to only…

  By Gal Beckerman Jun 8, 2011 | 2 min read