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Opinion The Jewish Case for Reparations — to Blacks
The Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates In the Hebrew tradition prophets cry out in the wilderness in part because their audience tends to be uninterested in the message. If the people were ready, after all, they wouldn’t need a prophet. “The prophet faces a coalition of callousness and established authority, and undertakes to stop a mighty…
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Fast Forward Dutch Ramp Up Security at Jewish Sites After Brussels Museum Attack
Dutch authorities said on Tuesday they were deploying more police officers at Jewish sites, including cultural centers, schools and synagogues, after three people were shot dead at the Jewish Museum in Brussels this weekend. The attacker, who was caught on a security camera firing a Kalashnikov rifle before fleeing, is on the run. Stepping up…
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News Jewish Parents Once Panicked About Teens Joining Cults — But No Longer
In 1981, the New York Times wrote about a source of parental anguish that had been growing for about a decade. “From across the United States… American Jews face a special problem: a disproportionate number of their young are defecting to a proliferation of cults.” The Moonies, Hare Krishnas, gurus, yogis — all of these…
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News Could Henry Ford Have Dreamed a Jew Would Run His Car Company?
In a company where the top jobs frequently go to graduates of Midwestern engineering schools — or to heirs of the founding family — Mark Fields’s rise to the top of Ford Motor Co. was hardly a sure thing. But then, in an earlier era, when the Fields family name was Finkelman and the name…
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News Talking Ticks in the Hasidic Catskills
As summer nears, many Hasidic communities in Brooklyn are beginning to prepare for holidays in New York’s Catskill Mountains, long the preferred destination for religious families looking for a reprieve from urban life. Yet amid the rolling green hills and low-slung bungalows, live ticks — tiny creatures that have infected many vacationers with Lyme disease,…
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The Schmooze A (Not So) Brief History of Jews in ‘Mad Men’
If you’re anything like me, you’re currently anticipating a period of intense mourning: After seven magical, addictive seasons, “Mad Men” is coming to an end. Soon. Season 7 of the award-winning show may be airing in two parts a la “Breaking Bad,” but it’s a sad reality that by close to this time next year,…
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Israel News Settlers Leave West Bank for Israel’s Mixed Arab-Jewish Towns
Ariel Greenbaum insists he’s a settler. But he lives many miles from the West Bank. “Settling the land also applies here,” he said in the Galilee synagogue where he spends his days studying Talmud. This synagogue tells the story better than most places of the “settlement” activity Greenbaum and other young Jews are bringing to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Oligarch Spends Millions on Militia To Hold Onto Ukraine Province
(Reuters) — Ukrainian militia fighters who clashed with armed pro-Russian separatists on Friday are at the forefront of Kiev’s efforts to prevent the country splitting. Co-funded by Igor Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine’s richest men, they play a more assertive role than the unarmed miners and metalworkers working for another oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov, who more recently…
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