Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Americans Back Gaza Plan
Jewish and non-Jewish Americans overwhelmingly support the decision of Prime Minister Sharon to remove Israeli settlers from Gaza, according to two recent surveys released Monday by organizations that back the disengagement plan. Two thirds of all Americans believe executing the withdrawal plan without a peace agreement with the Palestinians is a “bold step toward peace,”…
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News UJC To Send First Gay Mission to Israel
As religious conservatives fight to block a gay-pride celebration in Jerusalem, the American Jewish community’s top philanthropic network has announced plans to send hundreds of gays and lesbians to Israel this summer. United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations, announced March 31 that it was organizing its first-ever mission to…
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News Prom on Passover Rankles Teenagers In Illinois Suburb
For many American teenagers, the list of essential rites-of-passage is relatively short: Get a driver’s license, tear open a college acceptance letter and, whether or not you’re destined to be voted king or queen, attend the high school prom. Jennifer Mann, a senior at Warren Township High School in Gurnee, Ill., who is headed to…
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News Audit Probes Rabbinical Union’s Missing Cash
HOUSTON — An independent auditor believes that the Reform rabbinical union’s missing $1 million was spent on a legitimate organizational expense, according to the group’s incoming president. The newly elected president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Harry Danziger, told the Forward that the finding was contained in an interim report filed by independent…
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Culture Parts Creating a Whole
While some Jews whose ancestors lived in medieval Spain might refer to themselves as “Sephardi Tahor” (or “pure Sephardi”) — which implies that their brethren from the Middle East and Africa are not — the ninth annual International Sephardic Film Festival brings everyone together under one big tent. The series, opening next week at Manhattan’s…
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Culture Day Schools Learn To Sell Themselves In a Competitive Educational Market
When Michael Raileanu moved to Forth Worth, Texas, in 2003, he was shocked to learn that many Jews there were unaware of the Fort Worth Hebrew Day School, the only Jewish academy in town. Raileanu was personally troubled, and for a good reason: He had relocated from Los Angeles to become the school’s new director….
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Israel News Keeping Yiddish Culture Alive, One Melody at a Time
Chana Mlotek refuses to play favorites. After half a century of preserving Yiddish music — most notably through a celebrated Forverts column written with her late husband — she refuses to say which Jewish folk-tune she loves best. “On no, you can’t do that,” she said in a recent interview with the Forward. “It’s like…
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Culture Authors Unafraid of Kids’ Inner Lives
King Matt the First By Janusz Korczak, Translated by Richard Lourie Algonquin Books, 352 pages, $13.95. —— Your children — even those who generally shun books in favor of shoot-’em-up videogames — will truly enjoy “King Matt the First.” Written by Polish physician Janusz Korczak and first published in 1923, the novel stars a pint-sized…
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