As a rabbi in a small town, I understand the Jewish class divide — and how to close it
Rural congregations have a fraction of the resources of their big-city cousins, writes the head of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life
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Fast Forward Swastika spray-painted outside Maine synagogue
(JTA) — A swastika was spray-painted in white on the sidewalk in front of a synagogue in Bangor, Maine. Bangor police are investigating the incident, which occurred Thursday night. Security camera footage taken by Congregation Beth Israel captured clear images of the teenagers who drew the swastika. “I do hope, rather than criminal mischief or…
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Fast Forward Maine Town Manager Fired After Calling For White Ethnostate
A town manager in Maine was fired from his job this week after it emerged that he is the founder and leader of New Albion, a group that calls for racial separatism and opposes people “from different cultures” coming to northern New England. Jackman town manager Tom Kawczynski hoped to turn large sections of of…
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Fast Forward Maine GOP Senator’s Call for Merrick Garland Hearings Are Spurned
WASHINGTON – A moderate Republican senator heaped praise on President Barack Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, bucking Senate Republican leaders who promptly dismissed her call for confirmation hearings. Susan Collins of Maine became only the second Republican senator to meet with Merrick Garland since Obama nominated the centrist appellate judge last month to…
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Fast Forward Maine Group Aims To Preserve Historic Jewish Cemeteries
A new nonprofit group has been established to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries in southern Maine. The newly established Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Association has taken ownership of two historic Portland cemeteries that have fallen into disrepair and have toppled headstones, the Forecaster, a newspaper in Falmouth, Maine, reported. The move comes as many aging…
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Food How This Chef Heals the World — One Plate at a Time
David Levi, chef-owner of Vinland in Portland, Maine. David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk. The other day I sat with him for almost two hours at his restaurant in Portland, Maine, which he opened in January 2014. Vinland’s menu is “Paleo, gluten-free, and…
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Opinion Make Fort Kent, Maine, Famous? It Takes Ebola.
Our man in Maine has some words of wisdom for the reporters who are covering the story of the nurse who was quarantined over fears of Ebola. Go to Doris’s Cafe and grab the $1.90 French toast breakfast./Josh Nathan-Kazis Kaci Hickox, the nurse quarantined over fears she contracted Ebola, has done the impossible: She’s made…
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Books My Life in Exile
Hugh Roth is the younger son of Henry Roth, author of “Call It Sleep” and “Mercy of a Rude Stream.” Growing up, Hugh worked on his father’s waterfowl farm in Augusta, Maine, in the 1950s. After some decades in and around New York, he now lives on Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Rockland,…
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