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Fast Forward Jewish DNA Can Predict Family Name: Study
A male’s DNA contains information that can help scientists guess his surname, American and Israeli researchers have discovered. The findings have serious implications for data privacy; intelligence services around the world are bound to be interested. In the study published in the journal Science, researchers have developed a formula for an algorithm that can discover…
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Fast Forward Was Joe Biden’s ‘President’ Remark Slip or Signal?
Was it just another slip of the tongue by Vice President Joe Biden, or a preview of the next presidential campaign in 2016? Hours before he and President Barack Obama were due to be sworn in for their second four-year terms, Biden told supporters at the Iowa State Society inauguration ball late Saturday: “I’m proud…
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Opinion Dr. King’s Memory and the Jewish Conscience
This year, we commemorate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 21, the same day that we celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama to his second term as president of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. Day also marks the beginning of a year-long observance of the 50th Anniversary of King’s…
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News Ornate Gravestones Tell Stories of Soviet Lives
How do you pick the life-sized photograph to have engraved with a laser on your father’s headstone? Boris Shtern’s survivors chose a portrait of him with a moustache as thick as Groucho’s to go on his gravestone at Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery. Yefiv Sheynin looks like a 1950s Vegas playboy in his portrait in granite. Boris…
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Opinion Noah Pozner’s Emmett Till Moment
This week, the Forward’s web site was overwhelmed by traffic from the social news site Reddit, which featured my piece about the Newtown school rampage, “Wrestling With the Details of Noah Pozner’s Killing.” In the post, I outlined and explained the Forward’s decision to publish Noah’s mother’s description of her son’s body during our December…
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News 5 Jewish Players To Watch as Hockey Season Starts
Five Jewish hockey players are preparing to hit the ice with the rest of the National Hockey League as the puck finally drops on the season after a 120-day lockout of players. The NHL opens a whirlwind 99-day regular season on January 19, after a lockout-shortened training camp that started right after owners and the…
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Fast Forward 15 Bodies Found as Algeria Launches ‘Final Assault’
The Algerian army on Saturday carried out a “final assault” on al Qaeda-linked gunmen holed up in a desert gas plant, killing 11 of the Islamists after they took the lives of seven foreign hostages. “It is over now, the assault is over, and the military are inside the plant clearing it of mines,” a…
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Culture Three-Timing Jewish Hubby Faces the Music
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 illluminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 New York City cigar maker Charles Weiss may not look…
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