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Fast Forward Clinton Shocked at Israeli Women’s Status
Several Israeli government ministers on Sunday sharply responded to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her critical comments on the status of women in Israel and Knesset bills that would restrict left-wing organizations. Speaking to a closed forum in Washington on Saturday, Clinton criticized recent legislative attempts in Israel to restrict left-wing organizations and expressed…
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News Not Your Grandma’s Poland Anymore
When Poland’s new Sejm, or Parliament, was seated recently, the nationally televised event showed something never before seen in this conservative nation: a transsexual woman and an openly gay man being solemnly sworn in along with other parliamentarians. The seminal event was a consequence of the emergence of Palikot, a new, explicitly anti-clerical, libertarian-oriented party…
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Israel News Controversial Ad Campaign Scrapped
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to discontinue a controversial Immigration and Absorption Ministry campaign in the United States aimed at convincing expatriate Israelis to return. The campaign, which warns Israelis that if they continue to live in the United States, they or their children are likely to become assimilated, has raised the ire…
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News Reporters’ Roundtable: Why Israelis Dislike Americans
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to discuss why America’s foreign military aid to Israel is threatened by the Congressional super-committee’s failure to come to a debt deal. Then the group turns to a recent series of advertisements produced by the…
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Opinion Barney Frank and the Financial Crisis
Democrats have never recovered from the trauma of 1994, when they lost the House of Representatives to Newt Gingrich’s Republicans and found themselves in the minority for the first time in 40 years. One Democrat emerged relatively unruffled, however: Barney Frank of Massachusetts. “I’m used to being in the minority,” he famously wisecracked in a…
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Culture My Mother and Joseph Stalin
For decades, readers of the Forverts have been delighted by Miriam Hoffman’s wry, literary vignettes. Fresh and personal, historic yet contemporary, Hoffman tells stories of family lives as they intersect with history. Beginning with this story, first published in 1987, her vignettes with be translated into English and published on the forward.com web site. Translated…
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Fast Forward Kobe Bryant Works Out at Jewish Center
You never know who’s going to show up at the JCC these days. With the pro hoops season back on track, basketball superstar Kobe Bryant reportedly held a surprise workout at a Jewish Community Center in Irvine, Ca. The Los Angeles Lakers guard brought a trainer to work on shooting drills and cardio training as…
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Fast Forward Barney Frank Retiring From Congress
Longtime congressman Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the first openly gay representative, is set to announce his intention not to run for reelection in 2012. Frank told reporters gathered in the town hall in Newton, Mass., that Capitol Hill is no longer a place for a get-things-done type of lawmaker. “The kind of inside work I…
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