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Fast Forward Dick Cheney Warns of Isolationism in GOP
Dick Cheney told Republican Jews that he was concerned about isolationism in the party. “One of the things that concerns me first about the campaign” for the 2016 GOP presidential nod “is that I’m worried about what I sense to be an increasing strain of isolationism, if I can put it in those terms, in…
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News Tiny Greek Community of Ioannina Struggles To Keep Romaniote Traditions Alive
(JTA) — When the Jews of Ioannina gathered in their whitewashed-stone synagogue over the weekend, it was to commemorate 70 years since the Nazis destroyed their community. But the March 30 gathering also served to highlight a source of present-day sadness: the withering of the unique 2,300 year-old Romaniote Jewish tradition. Ioannina, a postcard-pretty town…
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The Schmooze Introducing JCrush, the Kosher Tinder
There’s a new Jewish dating app in town. And it’s like Tinder. For Jews. Launched about a month ago, JCrush uses similar location-tracking technology as Tinder. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the app now boasts over 5,000 users in the U.S., Israel, the U.K. and Australia. “The global Jewish community lacked a modern tool that…
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Israel News Israeli Jews Who Aren’t Jewish in Eyes of Rabbis Face Kafkaesque Conversion Plight
They live as part of Jewish society in the Jewish state, but the state itself does not consider them Jewish. For Israel, some 330,000 immigrants, mostly from the former Soviet Union, represent a big assimilation problem and a big political problem, made worse by the fact that the only solution for this largely non-religious group…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Pianist Myra Hess
Forward Association Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Though acclaimed for her interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, Myra Hess, born in 1890, achieved artistic heroine status for her deep and abiding faith that art and music must…
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Opinion Watching Porn While Sitting Shiva
Digital Spy It was my first shiva call, and it shocked me out of my wits. Sarah, one of the residents in the Jewish retirement community where I’d been conducting seminars on world news, had passed away. A cheerful lady in her 90s, she had always brought an international aspect to our weekly discussions. I…
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News Orthodox Singers Find Creative Voice by Performing for Other Women Only
Talia Lakritz, 20, a Modern Orthodox Jewish sophomore at Barnard College, and her two girlfriends got off a very crowded No. 3 train at Kingston Avenue in a fevered hurry of glee, as they headed to an open-mic night for women at the gallery at The Creative Soul, an organization in the Crown Heights section…
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The Schmooze Cracow Crescendo
Cracow Crescendo from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “We sing in Yiddish, we sing in Hebrew and sometimes we sing in Polish,” explains Zofia Radzikowska who joined the JCC choir in Cracow when it first opened two years ago. At the beginning it was uncertain whether the choir would be able to attract enough members….
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