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Fast Forward Polish Memorial to ‘Righteous’ Gentiles Set for Warsaw Ghetto — Despite Objection
A monument commemorating Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust will be constructed near the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The monument construction committee made the announcement on Friday. The monument construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2014. The committee was initiated by Polish-Jewish businessman and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat. “A monument…
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The Schmooze Michael Bloomberg Honored by Yad Vashem
To shouts of “We love you mayor!” Michael Bloomberg mounted the dais at the November 10 American & International Societies for Yad Vashem’s Annual Tribute Dinner at the Sheraton New York Hotel to accept the Societies’ Remembrance Award. “If I have one regret,” said the soon-to-be-departing mayor, “it’s that my parents did not live to…
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Life Women of the Wall on the Runway
Israeli fashion house Comme-Il-Faut presented their new collection during the recent Israeli Fashion Week. The inspiration for this season’s look? The Women of the Wall. Karin Leikovich and Sharon Daube, the designers at Comme-Il-Faut, told Ynet that they met with Anat Hoffman and Lesley Sachs, the leaders of the Women of the Wall, and saw…
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Opinion Road to Jewish Success Runs Through Failure
(JTA) — At most Jewish conferences, speakers and participants are careful to focus on sharing only their successes and accomplishments. After all, you never know when a potential donor might be listening. But on Monday, 120 Jewish communal professionals and lay leaders are gathering to focus on something very different: failure. Sponsored by New York’s…
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Opinion I Am Not a Distraction to Conservative Judaism
A line in Michah Gottlieb’s heartfelt cri de coeur about why he left Conservative Judaism for Orthodoxy jumped out at me. In a column published two weeks ago in the Forward, the New York University professor described his gradual disenchantment with the lackluster observance and intellectual dishonesty of the Conservative movement of his youth. Chief…
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Life Hasidic Sex Abuse of Boys Is a Feminist Issue
There are so many stories in the news emerging from the Orthodox community about boys in the religious community — literally from here to Australia — that it’s hard to keep track. Ben Hirsch, director of Survivors for Justice, a Brooklyn organization that advocates for Orthodox sex abuse victims, has recently been quoted as saying…
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News Delving Into Jewish Roots for Source of Her Epilepsy
When I started having seizures at the age of 7, no one ever suggested an exorcism. No one sent me to discuss with a rabbi what was going on inside my writhing body, or to try incantations, or amulet prayers, or minyan circles, for the sake of extricating the spirits. My motor seizure disorder was…
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Fast Forward Montreal Candidate Sorry for ‘Remove Jewish’ Hospital Name Rant
A Quebec candidate says she regrets comments she made two years ago calling for an end to circumcision and “Jewish” to be removed from a Montreal hospital. The comments made by the ruling Parti Quebecois’ Tania Longpre, then a blogger for Journal de Montreal, in a Facebook exchange were made public this week. Along with…
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