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Opinion Baby Steps To Restoring Memory of Kosovo Jews
There is no longer a Jewish community in Pristina, the capital of the newly independent country of Kosovo. Through flight, deportation, aliyah, and intermarriage, Jewish Pristina has over the past seventy years gradually diminished into non-existence. During the era when Kosovo formed part of Yugoslavia, the government in Belgrade did not do much to discourage…
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Fast Forward Israelis Suffer Abuse at Berlin Beyonce Gig
An Israeli soldier said he was among 10 young Israelis who were subjected to an anti-Semitic verbal attack before a Beyonce concert in Berlin. The soldier, Nathanel Zerad, told JTA that the incident last week at the O2 World Stadium left him and his friends fearful. Spokespeople for the Berlin police and the concert organizer,…
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Opinion The Creeping Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Midst
American Jews are actively supporting a demographic trend that threatens the fabric of American Jewish life: the unchecked growth of Jewish fundamentalism. Call them what you will — ultra-Orthodox Jews, “fervently Orthodox” Jews, Haredim, black hats. They will soon become the majority of affiliated Jews in the metropolitan New York area, and the religious majority…
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Opinion Ultra-Orthodox Bring Pride, Charity and Vitality Back to Jewish People
In the summer of 1979, my wife and I came to Jerusalem on our honeymoon. I had completed two years of big-firm legal practice in Chicago and was headed to the Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical program in the fall. I soon left the preparatory program for which we had come, and my wife and I…
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Fast Forward Can Computers Break Codes of Cairo Genizah?
The Friedberg Genizah Project will use a high performance computer network at Tel Aviv University to break the codes of the Cairo Genizah. The project, announced on Sunday, will match up pieces of over 200,000 ancient manuscripts discovered more than 100 years ago in the Cairo Genizah. Most of the fragments of pages, documents and…
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Opinion Fire Island: Like Israel for Gays
“The Pines is to gay people what Israel is to Jews. It’s the spiritual homeland.” That’s how journalist-turned developer Andrew Kirtzman described The Pines, a largely gay male enclave on idyllic Fire Island, the 31-mile-long strip of land just south of Long Island, about a 1-1/2-hour drive east of New York City. “There’s just a…
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Fast Forward Roger Cukierman Voted Head of French Jewish Group
Roger Cukierman has been elected the head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, or CRIF. It is the second time Cukierman, 76, has been elected to head the representative body of French Jewry. He also served as president of CRIF from 2001 to 2007. He succeeds Richard Prasquier, who has served for…
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News Deep in African Bush, Senegalese Tribe Claims Jewish Heritage
He will welcome you into his earthen-floor home, introduce you to his three wives, and let you sample their cooking. But Dougoutigo Fadiga does not want foreigners to come near the sacred tree of his village deep in the Senegalese bush. “The tree is holy grounds,” says Fadiga, president of this remote settlement of 4,000…
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Yiddish װי האָבן ייִדישע ליטעראַטן באַטראַכט איבערזעצונגען פֿון וועלט־ליטעראַטור אויף ייִדיש?How did Yiddish literary figures perceive the translating of world literature into Yiddish?
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