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Opinion Does Jewish Law Permit Snooping To Prevent Terrorism?
As we now know, the National Security Agency has been engaged, for at least six years now, in massive surveillance of electronic communications in order to locate and apprehend terrorists. Opponents say that this is a case of the government spying on millions of innocent people without their knowledge, while those in favor say that…
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Fast Forward Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor Michael Applebaum Hit With Corruption Charges
Montreal’s first Jewish mayor, who pledged to stamp out corruption at City Hall when he took office late last year, was arrested and charged with fraud on Monday in another blow to the reputation of Canada’s biggest cities. Michael Applebaum, whose predecessor resigned under pressure, faces 14 charges linked to two real estate deals, police…
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Opinion Trying To Reach Out to Unaffiliated Jews
In her recent piece “The ‘Unaffiliated’ Danger Within,” the Forward’s editor, Jane Eisner, cites the growing numbers of Jews who do not engage personally with Jewish communal life. Eisner raises the troubling question of how these numbers will affect the future of American Jewry, implying that the answer is intra-Jewish outreach. Eisner says, “Many non-Orthodox…
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News Unlikely Radicals Take Aim at Corporate Jewish Burial Business
The annual meeting of the Jewish death care radicals is no place for a funeral director. That became clear just after lunch on the second full day of the North American Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Cemetery Conference, when an attorney named Efrem Grail unloaded on the coffin hawkers. “This is about a protected profession which…
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Culture Bertrand Russell Calls Out Nikita Khrushchev
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 years ago 1913 The American-Romanian Jewish Emancipation Committee held a gala affair at the Waldorf…
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Israel News For Samantha Power, Support for Israel Is Deeply Personal — and Proven
During a White House meeting with Israeli officials in 2009, Samantha Power, like any other proud mother, pulled out a photo of her infant son. In speaking to the admiring crowd, she added a surprising detail: Her son, she said, is a descendant, from his father’s side, of the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo…
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Fast Forward Evelyn Kozak, World’s Oldest Jew, Dies at 113
A woman who claimed the title of the world’s oldest Jewish person died in New York at age 113, the Associated Press reported. Evelyn Kozak, who was born on Aug. 14, 1899, died early Tuesday in a hospital after suffering a heart attack the day before, according to her granddaughter Brucha Weisberger. Gerontology Research Group…
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Fast Forward Myriad Genetics Stock Plunges After Supreme Court Loss
The stock of Myriad Genetics plunged after the Supreme Court rejected its effort to patent a human gene mutation that is linked to cancer and is common among Ashkenazi Jews. Shares of the biotech company dropped about 15% on Friday after spiraling up by about 10% on Thursday. The stock initially rocketed up by more…
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