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Fast Forward Turkish Official Blames Jews for Stoking Street Protests
A Turkish deputy prime minister linked the “Jewish diaspora” to recent anti-government unrest and the country’s Jewish community expressed fears on Tuesday the comments could make them targets of popular anger. Turkey was rocked by violent protests last month when a small effort to save Gezi Park in central Istanbul from redevelopment mushroomed into a…
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Fast Forward James Bond Actor Pierce Brosnan’s Daughter Dies of Ovarian Cancer
Actor Pierce Brosnan said on Tuesday that his 41-year-old daughter Charlotte had died after a three year battle with ovarian cancer, the same disease that killed his first wife more than 20 years ago. Brosnan, 60, who was the fifth actor to take on the role of the fictional British spy 007 in the James…
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Fast Forward Jewish Veterans Demand Action on Sex Assaults
Jewish war veterans are calling for meaningful action to be taken to combat sexual abuse in the U.S. military. “The Jewish War Veterans of the USA (JWV) condemns the continued prevalence of reported and unreported male and female sexual misconduct in the military and calls for an independent process to review and prosecute these cases,”…
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Life How to Get Jewish Grandchildren
I found myself surprised by the critical response Caroline Rothstein and Debra Nussbaum Cohen got for explaining why they feel Jews should marry Jews. Rothstein wrote about why she only dates Jewish guys and Nussbaum Cohen about why she wants her children to marry Jews. I see no problem with the act of wanting a…
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News In Kosovo’s Tiny ‘Jerusalem,’ a Struggle To Sustain Jewish Life in Corner of Balkans
Votim Demiri led me through a warren of narrow streets and buildings with sloping red-tiled roofs to his home in this city of 178,000, set on a bend in the Prizrenska Bistrica river. In his office, Demiri, president of the Jewish community in Kosovo, proudly showed off photographs of his family meeting leaders, including Israeli…
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Fast Forward South Africa Jews Pray for Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s chief rabbi, Warren Goldstein, conveyed the Jewish community’s prayers and support to the daughter of ailing former President Nelson Mandela. Mandela, 94, remains critically ill in a Pretoria hospital. Dr. Makaziwe Mandela thanked the Jewish community on behalf of the Mandela family for its “love and support at this difficult time” as well…
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Opinion At Battle of Gettysburg, Jewish Heroes Fought for Both North and South
A few years ago, I delivered a lecture at Bowdoin College in Maine. Arriving early, I was promptly led to the college’s archive, where a permanent exhibit memorializes the heroism of a former president, Joshua L. Chamberlain. While on leave of absence from Bowdoin during the Civil War, then-professor Chamberlain led his Maine soldiers, who…
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Opinion Ethiopians and Birth Control — Culture or Chemicals?
What is bringing down the birth rates of Israel’s Ethiopian immigrants — culture or chemicals? A new study by the nonpartisan Knesset Research and Information Center found that while Ethiopian Jews traditionally have large families, by 2010 those who arrived in the preceding decade were actually having fewer kids than other Israelis. They were having…
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