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The Schmooze ‘Love Locks’ Fail On Paris Bridge
The Pont des Arts footbridge over the Seine in central Paris was closed for a few hours on Sunday after a metal grill laden with padlocks left by amorous couples collapsed onto the walkway. Padlocks began appearing on bridges in Paris and other European cities more than five years ago left by people seeking to…
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Fast Forward Greek Jewish Lawmaker Says Golden Dawn Would Send Her to ‘Concentration Camp’
Greek lawmaker warned her colleagues that if the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party comes to power it would send her and her family to the crematoria because of her Jewish ancestry. Anna Asimakopoulou, the spokesperson for the ruling New Democracy party, made the comments last week during a stormy debate in Parliament on lifting immunity from…
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Opinion It’s Time To Destigmatize Mamzers. Here’s How.
I think it’s high time we deal with the issue of mamzerut. I was exposed to the subject as a result of my work as a rabbinic advocate in Israel, working with women who were denied divorces and agunot, women chained to dead marriages. Through this work, I became familiar with a host of issues…
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Opinion 44% of Jewish Israelis Say They Don’t Need U.S. Cash
An Israeli observes the Iron Dome system in action / Getty Images Almost one in two Jewish Israelis think that their country could withstand a substantial decrease in American support. In a new poll by the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, conducted in the light of U.S.-Israel tensions over the end of the peace process, 44%…
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Life How I Learned My Opinions Matter
Frimet Goldberger and her children at her graduation from Sarah Lawrence College Three weeks ago, I learned that Barbara Walters gets her gumption from my alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. The legendary female doyen of American media made a surprise appearance to rousing applause before Fareed Zakaria’s keynote address. In her two-minute speech, Walters quoted…
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News Confessions of a Christian Zionist
As a child I knew nothing about Israeli culture, politics or people. But I was a Christian Zionist. I believed with perfect faith that across the globe, the descendants of ancient Hebrews had been stirred by God to return to the Middle East. I believed Israel was the sole inheritance of the Jews. I imagined…
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Life Take Your Sons to the Dishwasher Day
Thinkstock I’m part of the first generation to have experienced “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” founded by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation in 1992. We were taken to (mostly) our Dad’s offices, allowed to scribble on yellow legal pads with a bevy of ballpoint pens and highlighters, and then later taken for tuna…
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Life Queen for a Day at My Daughter’s Wedding
Dotty Brown and her husband walk their daughter down the aisle. Transitions… I feel as if I’m moving through a new one I hadn’t considered before. Recently, my “baby” — the youngest of my three daughters — got married, following in her sisters’ footsteps. It was a moment we had long anticipated, encouraged, hoped for,…
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