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Rick Santorum handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the Missouri Republican primary on Tuesday, giving a much-needed heartland boost to his underdog campaign, news outlets projected. Santorum had 55% of the vote in Missouri, compared to 25% for Romney and 12% for Ron Paul, with 37% of the votes counted, CNN reported. Read More »
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Israel Foreign Minister Starts U.S. Visit
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman began a visit to the U.S. on Tuesday, meeting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Republican Senator John McCain. Read More »
Komen Official Quits Over Planned Parenthood Flap
A senior official at Susan G. Komen For the Cure resigned after the organization was embroiled in controversy over its atempt to defund Planned Parenthood. Read More »
Top Hadassah Officials Probed Over Funds
Hadassah, the international women’s Zionist organization, is investigating fraud allegations against two top members of its executive board, the Forward has learned. The allegations came in a letter sent to the organization’s board members on January 12 by Larry Blum, Hadassah’s top staff member. Read More »
Chosen Images: February 7, 2012
Getty Images Harvard Man : Jason Segel shows off his Hasty Pudding Pot, an award bestowed upon him by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest undergraduate theater troupe. The group named him Man of the Year; Claire Danes won the award for Woman of the Year. Read More »
‘Price Tag’ Suspected of Defacing Jewish-Arab School
A Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem were defaced with graffiti on Tuesday in suspected “price tag” attacks carried out by Jewish extremists. “Death to Arabs” and “Kahane was right” was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall outside the bilingual school. Read More »
Tu B’Shvat a Holiday in Transition
Last Tu B’Shvat, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, located on Manhattan’s Battery Place, hosted a musical — “The Hatseller and the Monkeys” — and an arts and crafts event for children. This year, the museum has no nature-themed events on the docket to mark the Jewish new year’s celebration for trees, which begins on the night of February 7. Read More »
Israel’s Silent March to War With Iran
The atmosphere in Israel is pretty surreal these days. The whole world seems to be asking whether we’re going to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities this year — the whole world except this Israeli part of it. There is zero tension in the air, and awfully little interest in the subject as far as I can gather. Read More »
When a Family’s Struggle Goes Viral
When Seth and Hindy Poupko Galena asked readers of their Eye on Ayelet blog to say the Asher Yatzar blessing, I looked it up and, for the first time in my life, recited it — not after going to the bathroom, as it is traditionally said, but in front of my computer. I’m not particularly observant. Read More »
Hamas Steps Up Activities in West Bank
Hamas has been making concerted efforts in recent months to renew its activities in the West Bank, Israeli security officials note. Read More »
Adelson Could Shift Support to Romney
Jewish-American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson may shift his support from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney in the race for the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Adelson, the world’s 16th wealthiest person, and his wife Miriam donated $10 million last month to Winning our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC. Read More »
Let’s Do Coffee, Cousin Carrie
Although writer and actress Carrie Fisher and I have never met, we are related in that four-degrees-of-separation way that many Jews and half-Jews are — that is, my maternal great-aunt was married to her paternal great-uncle. I doubt that Ms. Read More »
Dishing Some Linguistic Dirt
Lewis Kupperman writes, “There is a Yiddish expression meaning to make mincemeat of someone or something that sounds like to make ‘ushenblottie,’” and he wants to know if I’m familiar with it. Mr. Kupperman’s “to make ushenblottie” is Yiddish makhn ash un blote — that is, “to make ashes and mud” of a person or matter. Read More »
Making Day School Affordable
One Jewish day school in Kansas cut its tuition in half. Another school, in Oakland, Calif., grew its endowment 15-fold. And a third, in Houston, succeeded in recruiting families from as far away as New Jersey, Venezuela and Israel. Read More »
Anti-Semitism Still High in Germany
Germany is still haunted by its Nazi past. Some 20% of residents in the country that gave rise to the Holocaust still harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, according to a recent study sponsored by Germany’s own government. Read More »
BDS Leader: ‘End Game’ Coming in Mideast
Philadelphia — A prominent Palestinian rights activist said Saturday night that the recent fury around the first national conference advocating a boycott of Israel, being held at the University of Pennsylvania, signifies that the Mideast conflict is at an “end game. Read More »
Christian Hymns Salve Jewish Soul
About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing. Considered a type of American roots music, Sacred Harp music consists of four-part a cappella harmonizing of Christian hymns. Read More »
Poverty in America: A Crisis Ignored
Poor Jews, the saying goes, are middle-class Jews without money. The unstated assumption is that the conventional cultural standards of the middle class are not displaced by a “culture of poverty” when Jews tumble down the class ladder. Read More »
Pro-Peace Group Barred From Leading Hebron Tours
Tel Aviv — A year ago, Israel’s Education Ministry launched a program to encourage schools to visit Jewish sites in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, drawing fire from doves who charged the ministry with bringing politics into school trips. The doves’ effort to stop the program failed. Read More »
Escape from Williamsburg
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots By Deborah Feldman Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $23 Deborah Feldman’s memoir, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” begins with Feldman describing her father, a Read More »
Romney Cruises to Easy Win in Nevada
Mitt Romney cruised to an easy win in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, cementing his position as frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, news outlets projected. Romney had 42% of the votes, compared to 26% for Newt Gingrich with just under half the precincts reporting. Read More »
Jews Get Special Caucus in Nevada GOP Race
Observant Jewish voters will participate in a special caucus in today’s Republican contest in Nevada, where polls show Mitt Romney is far ahead. The caucus at a Jewish school in Las Vegas will take place after sundown Saturday, long after other caucuses have ended, the New York Times reported. Read More »
Ban Ki-Moon Worried About Peace Deadlock
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried by the collapse of the Middle East peace talks brokered by Jordan and by the Palestinians’ drive for UN recognition. In an interview with Haaretz, Ban said he is concerned by possible damage to various UN institutions if the Palestinian Authority presses ahead with its membership requests to them. Read More »
Toddler’s Tragic Struggle; Jews Going GOP; Bibi’s Win
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman about Benjamin Netanyahu’s win in the Likud party primary. Then, editor Jane Eisner stops by to discuss a recent Pew poll that suggests Jew are moving closer to the Republican party. Read More »
Chosen Images: February 3, 2012
Getty Images Make Some Noise! : Singer Adam Levine gets the crowd pumped up at VH1′s Super Bowl Fan Jam at Indiana State Fairgrounds, Pepsi Coliseum in Indianapolis. Festivities in the city’s Super Bowl village began ten days before kick-off. Read More »
Haredi Service a Catch-22 for Netanyahu
Army reservists may have been forced to dismantle their “suckers’ compound” due to stormy weather this week, but they did succeed to vent their rage over the draft exemptions given to the ultra-Orthodox in the Knesset. Read More »
Fast-Growing Charity Funds Raise Issues
Donor-advised funds are the fastest growing method of philanthropy that you’ve probably never heard of. Nationwide last year, these funds had assets totaling $30 billion. Read More »
Follow the Ethical Guidlines
Corporate boards, whether in the for-profit or nonprofit sector, are accountable to the communities for which and in which they operate. Read More »
The Days After
Editorial The new year begins with a blizzard of stories, reports, analyses and exhortations about the threat of a nuclear Iran and the means — if they exist — to stop it. Read More »
Train More Capable Leaders
Executive salaries in the Jewish community — as elsewhere in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds — often correspond very little with the size, complexity or profit of their organizations. Ultimately, it is the board that determines the executive director’s salary. Read More »
Create Tax for Jewish Education
Although the salary gap in the Jewish communal world is not as disparate as that between other workers and corporate CEOs or money managers, it remains substantial. Read More »
Skip the Ads, Watch Torah at Halftime
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thrust religion into the consciousness of football fans everywhere this year by famously taking a knee and bowing his head in prayer on the field. And while his prayers caused their fair share of controversy, not everyone thinks mixing football and religion is such a bad thing. Read More »
Hire and Pay Fairly and Equally
The problem of income disparity in the world of Jewish organizations comes down to the question of value. There is nothing wrong with CEOs being well paid if they are doing extraordinary work on behalf of their mission and constituencies. Read More »
Federations Escort Ethiopian Jews to Israel
Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. Read More »
Jews Shift Toward GOP, Survey Claims
Jewish support for the Republican Party has grown dramatically since 2008 nationwide, a new national survey suggests. The GOP crowed over the results. Read More »
Looking Back: February 10, 2011
50, 75, 100 Years Ago in the Forward 100 Years Ago in the Forward A resident of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Freda Levinson, 19, decided to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, William Kaufman, also from the Lower East Side, after, she claimed, he reneged on a promise to marry her. Read More »
March of the Living Reception Hosted by Israel Ambassador
“We do it every year, like Exodus,” said Malcolm Hoenlein , executive vice chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the January 17 March of the Living reception. The reception was hosted by Ron Prosor , Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Read More »
Chosen Images: February 2, 2012
Getty Images Final Countdown : New York Giants Chairman Steve Tisch staves off pre-game jitters with a Super Bowl Pep Rally Luncheon at Michael’s in New York City. He’s been quoted as saying that the team’s underdog status will actually be an advantage in the match-up against the New England Patriots. Read More »
Turning Down the Heat on Police Video
The New York Police Department is caught up in a tangled spat with the city’s Muslim community and assorted liberal groups over counter-terrorism measures that seem to have crossed the line into rank anti-Muslim bigotry. Read More »
Race for the Door
Editorial Why Planned Parenthood has become Public Enemy No. 1 for a vocal segment of conservative America remains a mystery to us. Read More »
Thou Shalt Suspend Disbelief
Tourists thronged New York City’s Times Square over the holiday period. Some had come to take in the sights, others a Broadway play and still others the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were to be found in temporary residence at Discovery Times Square (“More than a museum”), on West 44th Street. Read More »
Really, Really Rainy January in Israel
The month of January saw the highest number of rainy days in one month on record in Israel, according figures from the Israel Meteorological Service. Read More »
Chosen Images: February 1, 2012
Scarlett Johansson, Reid Hoffman, Joan Rivers, Simon Helberg Read More »
Holocaust Property Site Hits 2 Million Entries
A searchable database of Holocaust-era property records has reached more than two million records. Read More »
L.A. Foundation Aids Returning Veterans
The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles awarded some $200,000 in grants for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and financial literacy programs. Read More »
U.S. Olympian To Represent Israel in London Games
Former U.S. Olympian pole-vaulter Jillian Schwartz will represent Israel at this summer’s Olympics. The Illinois native said immigrating to the Jewish state increased her chances of competing at the London games. Read More »
Hamas Prime Minister To Visit Iran
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, will visit Iran. Read More »
Iran More Willing To Attack U.S., Intelligence Official Says
Iran’s leadership has shown itself more willing to carry out attacks on American soil, the U.S. intelligence chief told Congress. Read More »
Following Ultra-Orthodox Money Trail
Want to know where ultra-Orthodox groups in Israel get money? Shmarya Rosenberg writes they are funded by kosher certification businesses and Satmar Hasidim in Brooklyn. Read More »
Rubbing Elbows With Famous in Davos
Davos Shabbat is one of the toughest tickets in a tough-ticket town. It’s a stunning gathering of 250 Jewish and non-Jewish leaders, from Sheryl Sandberg to Ehud Barak. Read More »
Israel Replaces Race as Obama Fear
Four years ago, Florida Jews fretted that Barack Obama might be a radical Muslim. Those concerns are rarely heard today, replaced by worries about his policy towards Israel. Read More »
Finding Voice, Romney Pounds Gingrich
Mitt Romney found his voice in Florida and got a big win to prove it. He’s the frontrunner again and he’s got another chance to turn out the lights on his opponents. Read More »
Romney Blows Out Gingrich in Florida
Mitt Romney thumped Newt Gingrich in the Florida Republican primary after a bitter battle in which both men attacked one another with negative advertising. Read More »
Suspect Confesses in N.J. Synagogue Attacks
The 19-year-old man charged in attacks on two northern New Jersey synagogues confessed to the crimes, prosecutors said. Read More »
Let’s Sing Another Song, Leonard
Ezra Glinter writes he was not expecting ‘Old Songs,’ Leonard Cohen’s first album of new material in eight years, to be any good. Read More »
Bibi Holds Live Facebook Chat With Arabs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a live Facebook chat with web surfers from the Arab world. Read More »
Chosen Images: January 31, 2012
Daniel Radcliffe, Lauren Greenfield, Frank Gehry, Fred Savage, Leigh Silverman, Jon Favreau Read More »
Ahmadinejad Branded Chief Holocaust Denier
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the “Holocaust denier-in-chief,” American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris in Greece. Read More »
Austrian Politician Says Far-Rightists Are the ‘New Jews’
A prominent Austrian politician has reportedly referred to members of his far-right Freedom Party as “the new Jews. Read More »
New Sanctions Bill Targets Iran’s Energy Sector
Iran offered to extend a visit by nuclear inspectors. Read More »
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