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Opinion Having It All and Being Good Jew Too
As the season of tightly packed Jewish holidays wound down for another year — after the whirlwind of family dinners, synagogue services and even volunteer shofar blowing on top of the upheaval of a new school year for our children — my husband and I reflected once again on how hard we try to “have…
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Opinion Christians Also Struggle To Keep the Faith
A religious group wrings its hands over youth “leaving” or “rethinking their commitment to the faith.” Must be Jews, right? But — surprise! — this “dropout problem” belongs to right-of-center Christian denominations, according to a recent survey. Here we thought that Jewish teens were the only ones to go missing from religious action. Now we…
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News Tale of Two Jewish Towns on Shore
Amid the widespread devastation on New Jersey’s Atlantic Ocean shore following Hurricane Sandy, there was a tale of two Jewish towns as they each marked the sabbath. In Deal, a borough of about 1,000 residents — most of them upper income Syrian Jews — the streets were eerily quiet as the Sabbath approached. Neither the…
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Fast Forward Sandy Levels Social Barrier on Jersey Shore
Asbury Park and Bay Head are two towns on opposite ends of the Jersey Shore’s socio-economic spectrum – one with many poor people, the other with professionals in lucrative Wall Street careers. Superstorm Sandy has swept away many of the differences between the two. Asbury Park is a faded dowager seaside resort, still struggling to…
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Fast Forward Limmud Holds Conference for Former Yugoslavia
Limmud opened its first-ever Jewish identity conference in Macedonia, drawing participants from other former Yugoslavian countries. The Nov. 1 opening brought together a crowd of 500 Jews, twice Macedonia’s estimated Jewish population of 250, according to Dina Sosberger, who organized the four-day conference for Limmud Keshet-XU, which holds conferences in the former Yugoslavia as part…
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Fast Forward French Family Attacked in Parking Spot Dispute
French police have arrested two men accused of assaulting members of a Jewish family in the family’s home in Nice in a dispute over a parking space. The men tried to break into the family’s apartment in the southern French city on Oct. 15 after the family had the men’s car towed away from a…
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Culture Faster Than A Speeding Tallis
Superman Is Jewish? By Harry Brod Free Press, 240 pages, $25 There has been a little boom, recently, in books about the links between Jews and comic books. Stack up Simcha Weinstein’s “Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero,” Danny Fingeroth’s “Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Volunteers Step Up for Sandy Victims
Just before Shelly Fine went to sleep Tuesday night, he posted his contact information and an appeal seeking volunteers for the Hurricane Sandy relief effort on a popular Upper West Side blog. When the 63-year-old woke up the next morning, he had 163 responses. Together with other volunteers, Fine is helping to orchestrate a grassroots…
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