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News Infertile Women: The Community Funds Services For Parents, It Should Help Us, Too.
When Naomi Less was still in the throes of what would be her nearly seven-year-long infertility journey, she made a vow. It was February 2014, and she had just written a passionate blog post about her struggle to have a baby. At 40, it would be nearly four more years before Less, a musician and…
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News Have Jews Lost Power In New York City Council Reshuffle?
A power shift in New York’s City Council has diminished some of the city’s most influential Jewish legislators. Now, political insiders warn that Jewish groups may have less pull in City Hall over the next four years. Those insiders worry that the changes could mean that Jewish interests will get short shrift. And they note…
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Fast Forward Kosher Restaurateur Says Rabbis Shun Him Over Non-Jewish Wife
(JTA) — The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish. Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and…
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Culture Liberal New York Jews Must Engage With Orthodox — History Proves It
JEWISH NEW YORK: THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF A CITY AND A PEOPLE By Deborah Dash Moore NYU Press, 512 Pages, $30 You see it everywhere now: anxiety about America’s Jewish future. Panel discussions and synagogue sermons and angsty op-eds, alarmed missives with a touch of bewilderment, all wondering about the right way forward. We’re intermarrying,…
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Fast Forward Assistant Goldman Sachs Exec Stole $1.2M Of French Wine From His Boss’ Cellar
David M. Solomon, co-president at Goldman Sachs, famously dines out more than most restaurant critics, and is known for bringing his own hand-picked bottles from his cellar, which contains wine worth millions of dollars. But an unsealed indictment has revealed that Solomon trusted the wrong man with managing his cellar. The New York Times reported…
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Fast Forward Prominent New York State Senator Accused Of Forcibly Kissing Staffer
New York state senator Jeffrey Klein was accused by a former Senate staffer of forcibly kissing her in 2015, the Huffington Post reported Wednesday. Klein, who leads the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, represents the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale in the Senate. Klein denied the allegations. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, has called for…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Mourns Big-Hearted Family Killed In Costa Rica Plane Crash
The rabbi of a suburban New York temple mourned a family of five that were killed in a tragic plane crash during a paradise vacation to Costa Rica. Rabbi Jonathan Blake of the Westchester Reform Temple identified the family as Bruce and Irene Steinberg and their sons William, Zachary and Matthew. “This tragedy hits our…
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Yiddish World Recalling The Unsavory Characters Of Jewish History, From ‘Prophets’ To Murderers
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press By Eddy Portnoy Stanford University Press, 280 pages $15.25 When the study of Jewish history began in the 19th century, it had two goals: To create an objective picture of the Jewish past and to…
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