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Fast Forward Yehuda Lev, Journalist and Zionist, Dies at 86
Yehuda Lev, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, has died. Lev died Aug. 3 in Providence, Rhode Island, after a prolonged illness. He was 86. Lev became the first associate editor of the newly founded…
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News Radicals Against the Death Care Industry; Hasidic Anti-Zionist Rally; Six Words About Your Dad
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward news editor Larry Cohler-Esses to discuss a recent gathering of Jewish activists who want to take back funerals from the death care industry. Then, Forward intern Frimet Goldberger drops by to discuss a massive rally organized by the Satmar Hasidic sect in…
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News Did Satmars Bite Hand That Feeds Them With Anti-Israel Message at Draft Rally?
If you needed social services from New York’s fervently pro-Israel mainstream Jewish community, would you organize a tremendous anti-Israel rally in its backyard? Despite assurances that it wasn’t their intention to do so, that appears to be exactly what the Satmar Hasidic community did on June 9, when they gathered a reported 30,000 men in…
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Opinion Genocide, Lies & Video: Sliming Samantha Power
Even in a political culture as poisonous as ours is of late, there’s still something deeply disturbing about the perverse dishonesty of the right-wing attacks on Samantha Power, President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations. There are so many layers of bad faith at work here that it’s hard to know where to…
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Opinion Church of Scotland Strikes Out on Israel
When the Church of Scotland decided to revise its controversial and borderline anti-Semitic report on Israel and the Palestinians, it only really had to do three things. First, the Kirk, as the church is widely know, had to make clear it understood what Zionism actually is. Not, as they originally stated, a solely religious ideology….
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News ZOA Regains Tax-Exempt Status After Yearlong Hiatus
The Zionist Organization of America has regained its tax exemption more than a year after its failure to file financial disclosures led the Internal Revenue Service to revoke its nonprofit status. The 116-year-old Jewish group’s tax exemption was reinstated on May 15, according to a statement from the ZOA. “We’re delighted and gratified,” said ZOA…
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Fast Forward ZOA Regains Tax-Exempt Status
The Internal Revenue Service reinstated the tax-exempt status of the Zionist Organization of America. “The work of the ZOA has never been altered or diminished one iota during this period,” ZOA President Morton Klein said in a statement Monday announcing the May 15 IRS decision. “Our campus work; our Title VI efforts; our Capitol Hill…
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Opinion What ‘Jews a Race’ Debate Means for Israel
The persistent debate over the “racial” origins of the Jewish people makes a mockery of scholarship, trivializes history and perpetuates conceptions of identity that have been misused to justify everything from violent repression to affirmative action. It is hardly surprising that Johns Hopkins’s Eran Elhaik “stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy,” as the Forward…
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