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Opinion Remembering Noah Pozner With Tacos
“You wanted to be a doctor, a soldier, a taco factory manager. It was your favorite food, and no doubt you wanted to ensure that the world kept producing tacos,” Veronique Pozner said in a eulogy for her son Noah at his funeral on Monday. Six-year-old Noah, who was murdered in the massacre at the…
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News Isaiah Sheffer Remembered for Lullaby Voice and Enduring Legacy
Most of America knew the great director, writer, actor and impresario Isaiah Sheffer through his deep lullaby of a voice, the one that guided them through his popular weekly syndicated radio show, “Selected Shorts.” But a bittersweet reminder of the many other gifts and achievements of the multitalented stage veteran was provided at the December…
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Fast Forward Toulouse Killer’s Sister Questioned About Praise
The sister of Mohammed Merah reportedly has been summoned to a Toulouse police station for questioning on her praise for her late brother’s actions in March when he murdered four Jews. Souad Merah, the sister of Mohammed Merah, entered the main police station of Toulouse on Wednesday morning, AFP, the French news agency, reported. Last…
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Fast Forward Judge Hears Arguments on Metzitzah Mandate
A federal judge heard oral arguments in a case that would require parents to sign a consent form before a controversial circumcision rite can be performed. U.S. District Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on Tuesday continued the stay of implementing the required warning to parents of the dangers of metzitzah b’peh, a ritual in which…
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Fast Forward More Newtown Funerals Loom as Gun Debate Rages
Six more victims of the Newtown school shooting will be honored at funerals and remembrances on Wednesday, including the school principal who was killed with 20 of her students and five other staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The massacre of so many children, most of them just 6 or 7 years old,…
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Fast Forward Jews Older Than Members of Other Faiths
People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus. The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the…
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Opinion The Right To Be Safe
So many eloquent words have been written in the aftermath of the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. that there is no need to add to the expressions of pain and anguish we have all shared as citizens, as family members, as Jews. But another kind of expression escapes redundancy: The call…
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Culture The Other Kindertransport
One hundred and fifty: a number simultaneously enormous and tiny. One hundred and fifty Czech Jewish teenagers left behind everything and everyone — the lives they’d known, their parents, their siblings, their grandparents and aunts and uncles. One hundred and fifty Czech teens, selected by the Jewish Agency’s Youth Aliyah and the Denmark branch of…
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