Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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News Yeshiva U. Brings on Critic of Chabad
Rabbi David Berger, a historian who is a sharp critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has been appointed head of Jewish studies at Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college in a move that has ruffled some feathers on the campus. Writing in the college’s student paper, the Commentator, Josh Shteir, a senior at the school and a co-president…
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News Archaeologists Challenge Barnard Professor’s Claims
Amid charges of mud-slinging, a group of archaeologists turned to dirt-digging — literally — in their fight against a controversial fellow academic. On Monday night, Columbia University’s pro-Israel student group played host to the latest installment in a lecture series aimed, at least partially, at rebutting Nadia Abu El-Haj, whose work has been critical of…
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News Far Right Israelis Get Boost From Senator
A Republican presidential candidate is backing a controversial right-wing campaign to oppose the current peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback announced on Wednesday that he was supporting “The Israeli Initiative: The Right Road to Peace,” a plan proposed Rabbi Binyamin Elon, chairman of Israel’s right-wing National Union Party. “The combination of…
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News Labor Leader Israel Kugler, 90
Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ and Jewish labor organizations, died October 1 in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 90. Kugler was president of the United Federation of College Teachers during the turbulent 1960s, and he won a reputation as an outspoken advocate for teachers’ rights. In 1965, the teachers’ union, under Kugler’s leadership, supported…
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News Holocaust Deniers Rankled by Their Standard Bearer’s Revisions
A famed Holocaust denier is revising his revisionist thinking — and the move is opening up a rift among his fellow travelers. David Irving, who was released from prison last December in Austria after being convicted of Holocaust denial, recently announced that he is rethinking his position on the fate of European Jews during World…
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News Fringe Jewish Group Has Third Meeting with Ahmadinejad
While most of the Jewish world was protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York, at least one Jewish group, albeit an outcast one, invited the leader for a private meeting. The most extreme faction of Neturei Karta, an ultra-Orthodox sect that believes the State of Israel to be illegitimate, had a personal meeting…
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Israel News A Very Political Sukkot
The activist collective Jewish Women Watching has made a name for itself by theatrically exposing what members see as the narrow-minded priorities of the mainstream American Jewish community. The organization is celebrating Sukkot by sending out hundreds of politically pointed postcards designed as sukkah decorations. The postcards juxtapose issues that, according to JWW, the community…
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News Critics of Ahmadinejad Muster in New York
The visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York drew two major protests on Monday. Early in the day, protesters spilled out of a United Nations courtyard to protest Ahmadinejad’s scheduled appearance at the U.N. on Tuesday. A roster of influential Jewish and Israel advocacy groups sponsored the rally at the U.N. Political luminaries…
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