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Opinion Your Jewish Mother in Six Words
What if you had to sum up your feelings about your mother in six words? That’s right, exactly six words. No more, no less. We know, some famous writers take hundreds of pages to work out their mommy issues. But the Forward’s challenge to you, dear readers, is to capture your Jewish mom in a…
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Israel News Jewish Gun Control Backers Plan New Push
Jewish advocates for gun control are vowing to turn up their grassroots pressure on certain senators to change their minds, or work hard to see them turned out of office following the Senate’s rejection of an amendment that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers. Left with precious few options, supporters of gun control,…
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News Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder
Police in a Boston suburb are investigating whether slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in the unsolved murders of his close friend and two other men, one of whom was a Brandeis University graduate and the other a devout Jew. Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was a close…
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News Half of Polish Students Don’t Want Jewish Neighbor
Forty-four percent of Warsaw high school students don’t want a Jewish neighbor. This is one of the findings in a new poll of 1,250 students in 20 Warsaw high schools. The poll was conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University. It’s findings came April 16, just days before the commemoration of…
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Opinion Hunting for Greener (Jewish) Pastures
I have an Orthodox Jewish friend here in New York who is always yapping about Dallas (not the television show). “The people are so nice,” he says. “The weather is better… The houses are cheaper.” He’s been there only once in his life, but would like nothing more than to find a job northern Texas…
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News Canada’s Flagship Jewish Newspaper Is Folding
Canada’s flagship Jewish newspaper, The Canadian Jewish News, is folding. The newspaper, which has a circulation of approximately 40,000, announced Monday that its final print edition will be June 20. The closure will mean the loss of about 50 jobs. “I never dreamed that I would be writing this,” CJN President Donald Carr wrote on…
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The Schmooze EarthDay Wisdom From The Stars
Celebrities being the arbiters of good taste when it comes to good deeds and causes, they were out in hordes on the Twitter-sphere to remind us to reduce, recycle, and be better people on this 43rd annual Earth Day. #Earthday! Go plant a tree! clean up after yourself! Love the place u live in and…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Flock to Warsaw Museum on First Day
Hundreds of people, including many journalists and foreign tourists, waited in long lines and filled the square outside the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which opened Sautrday for the first time. The visitors weren’t disturbed by the fact that the $100 million museum’s permanent exhibition has not been installed yet; they came to…
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