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News Philadelphia Jewish Federation Faces Crisis as Ira Schwartz Abruptly Leaves
Philadelphia’s Jewish federation is facing a crisis of leadership. Home to the sixth-largest Jewish community in the country, Philadelphia has a new museum of American Jewish history, Jewish day schools, thriving synagogues, and a major liberal rabbinical seminary. Yet the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Ira Schwartz, departed abruptly in early May,…
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Opinion Rabbis Must Speak About Israel, Warts and All
For most of my congregants, Israel is an accepted and welcome fact of life at the top of our communal agenda, not a point of contention. People care about Israel and identify with it. They love it in the unconditional way in which parents love their children. They are at peace with it. Every Sabbath,…
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The Schmooze Seth Myers Makes ‘Late Night’ A Little More Jewish
“Late Night” just got a little more Jewish. A quarter Jewish, to be exact. NBC has announced that “Saturday Night Live” writer-performer Seth Myers will be taking over the show next year after current host Jimmy Fallon moves over to “The Tonight Show.” “I am aware of the history,” Mr. Myers told The New York…
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Fast Forward Longlost Jewish Postcard Uncovered at Holocaust Death Camp Town of Auschwitz
Construction workers near the sole surviving synagogue in Oswiecim, Poland have turned up a postcard that sheds light on pre-war Jewish life in the town. Oswiecim is the Polish town where the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was built. It had a majority Jewish population before World War II. A lawyer in Paris named Georges Lewinsky…
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News Claims Conference Officials Were Told of Massive $57M Fraud — But Didn’t Act
Top officials at the Jewish organization that processes Holocaust restitution claims were alerted to a fraud scheme being perpetrated by the group’s own employees nearly a decade before they moved to end it. The fraud scheme, which went on for 15 years and diverted $57 million to unqualified recipients, was first described in a detailed…
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Fast Forward Jews March To Demand Answers in Brutal Murder of Cleveland Nurse
More than 200 people participated in a community walk in suburban Cleveland to bring attention to the unsolved murder of Aliza Sherman, a Jewish mother of four. The marchers who gathered Sunday in Beachwood, Ohio, on Sunday, Mother’s Day, carried balloons past the home of Sherman before moving on to the Cleveland Clinic building where…
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Fast Forward Angelina Jolie Has Double Mastectomy Over ‘Jewish’ Gene Breast Cancer Fear
Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer and says she hopes her story will inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease. Jolie wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday the operation has made it easier for her to reassure her six children that she…
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News African Island’s Lost Jewish Heritage
A Portuguese rabbi and a Moroccan diplomat stood shoulder to shoulder in a Catholic cemetery here while 200 mourners howled in grief as they buried a resident of this island off the western coast of Africa. The foreigners had come to Cape Verde’s main cemetery earlier this month not to bury a local, but for…
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