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Fast Forward Pope Benedict: Lebanon Trip Step to Peace
Pope Benedict XVI said he regards his upcoming trip to Lebanon as a visit aimed at promoting peace and dialogue in the entire Middle East. Benedict is scheduled to visit Lebanon Sept. 14-18. “My apostolic visit to Lebanon, and by extension to the Middle East as a whole, is placed under the sign of peace,”…
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Fast Forward Five Jewish Teens Arrested for Jerusalem Attack
Jerusalem Police arrested five Jewish teens in connection with an attack on an Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem, which left the victim with a broken leg. The arrests on Saturday night came two days after Ibrahim Abu Taha, 28, was attacked in downtown Jerusalem. The victim and a Jewish co-worker had walked a female Jewish…
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Opinion Trickle-Down Benefits of Obamacare
I recently had a conversation with a cousin. As we discussed our families, he told me proudly about his 27-year old daughter, a nurse. She was working in two interesting but part-time jobs, one at a community health clinic and the other with senior adults. “Great,” I said. “But wait. How does she get health…
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News On Memorial Day, Remembering Our Fallen
On Memorial Day 2016, the Forward salutes the Americans who have died in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan — and reminds readers of the dozens of Jewish servicememebers who perished. Here is a look back at how we have covered their wrenching stories. Of the more than 6,800 Americans who have died in Iraq…
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News Helping Them Return to Civilian Life
Just before a Chicago Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game at the end of July, 100 veterans of America’s military walked onto a sold-out Wrigley Field and took a reenlistment oath. They weren’t planning to rejoin their old units. Rather, they were committing to a six-month fellowship run by The Mission Continues, which helps returning veterans…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week in Legal Terms
This morning I attended a Fashion Week event, put on by the Fashion Law Institute in New York City. In many ways it was like any other show. Models, dressed in tiny floral bikinis and metallic vests, posed in the center of the room, while viewers sipped champagne and snapped photos. But this event was…
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News Asher Lopatin Seeks To Secure YCT’s Place
When Rabbi Asher Lopatin takes over the helm of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah next summer, he may try to pull off something of a football move at the Modern Orthodox rabbinical school: Look left while going right. In the 12 years since Rabbi Avi Weiss founded the school as a more liberal, pulpit-focused alternative to Yeshiva…
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Fast Forward Jews Want Perjorative Out of Spanish Dictionary
The representative body of Spain’s Jewish community has renewed efforts to have a pejorative word connected to Jews scrapped from the country’s official dictionary. Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), recently wrote to the Royal Spanish Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, to remove the word…
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