Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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News Foreclosure Case Taken to Jewish Court
With the national mortgage crisis growing worse by the day, a Boston lawyer is looking to alleviate matters by appealing to Jewish law. David Grossack, an attorney representing an elderly couple whose home is being foreclosed on, argued in a letter to a Boston rabbinical court, or beit din, that his opposing counsel, Jewish lawyers…
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News Group Forms To Defend Obama Against Attacks
Ruth Greenspan Bell’s brother kept sending Bell e-mails that suggested Barack Obama was a nefarious foe of the Jewish people, and Bell kept sending ripostes right back. Finally, in late February, she decided she had had enough. “Some of the things he’d gotten on the Internet were so stupid, like this claim that Louis Farrakhan…
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News Head of Columbia Jewish Studies Program Resigns
Professors at Columbia University have been mum over the abrupt resignation last month of Michael Stanislawski as director of the school’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, an umbrella for scholars anchored in other departments. Stanislawski declined to comment on his change in status at the institute, which was established in 2005 in part to…
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Culture What if Hitler Were a Jewish Supremacist?
The Jewish Messiah By Arnon Grunberg, translated by Sam Garrett Penguin Press, 470 pages, $27.95. ‘The biggest mistake fascism made was to turn against the Israelite,” a character says in Arnon Grunberg’s new novel, “The Jewish Messiah.” “If fascism had absorbed the Israelite, if fascism had said to the Israelite: Come, let us join forces,…
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News An Unusual Megillah
The Scroll of Esther is getting a makeover from some kids in Pennsylvania, a Reconstructionist scribe and a computer graphics program. Congregation Or Hadash, a small Reconstructionist synagogue located in the Philadelphia suburb Fort Washington, has commissioned a sofer to create a megillah that incorporates drawings by students in its religious school. The scribe, Rabbi…
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Life Yid Vid: Fiddler on the Goof?
“Fiddler on the Roof” and “Avenue Q” are two major Broadway musicals that celebrate community and kvetch about poverty through the cunning use of puppets. Oh wait, that last part is only “Avenue Q.” But not anymore…
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News Antisemitic Incidents Down for Third Year
During a year with many high-profile antisemitic attacks, the overall number of antisemitic incidents in the United States declined for the third year in a row, according to a report released March 5 by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL counted 1,357 antisemitic incidents in the United States last year, compared with 1,554 in 2006 —…
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News American and Moldovan Groups at Odds Over Property
A piece of land in Kishinev, Moldova, that was once home to a synagogue and is the place where a Jewish community center now sits has become the focus of a legal battle between American and Moldovan Jewish organizations. According to officials at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Association of Jewish Organizations and…
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