Stewart Ain, an award-winning veteran journalist, covers the Jewish community. Follow him on Twitter @AinStewart or email stewartain@gmail.com.
Stewart Ain
By Stewart Ain
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News COVID-19 is causing Jewish leaders to decline the White House Hanukkah party invite — with regrets
The coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on the White House’s annual Hanukkah party. “I’m not going. I’m not traveling. I’m 82 years old,” said Harvard Law Professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who has been an unofficial advisor to Trump and attended last year’s party. “I would go, if not for the virus.” Jewish leaders have…
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News Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard goes free, capping 35 years of American-Jewish activism and ambivalence
Jonathan Pollard, the convicted spy embraced by some Jews as a patriot for their people and rejected by others as a stain on it, is a free man. The U.S. Parole Commission notified him today that it had terminated his parole and lifted the restrictions that were keeping him to within certain sections of Manhattan….
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News In Chicago and Boston, Jewish chaplains are on the COVID-19 surge front lines
As he walks the hallways of a large suburban Chicago hospital amidst an increasing number of COVID-19 patients, Rabbi Ariel Marinelli is scared. “My wife and I are on the same page,” said the 37-year-old Orthodox rabbi. “She too gets nervous.” It’s a familiar but dispiriting return to the pandemic front lines for Marinelli, the…
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News Supporters of Jonathan Pollard, convicted spy, hope Trump will commute his sentence
Supporters and friends of Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who served Israel as a spy, are hoping that before he leaves office, President Donald Trump will enable Pollard to emigrate to the Jewish state by commuting his sentence or pardoning him. Pollard pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to commit espionage in connection with providing…
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News As pandemic drags on, study finds seniors face isolation, suicide
For Dodie Wohl, 83, who lives alone in a retirement community in Boynton Beach, Florida, the isolation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic is very real. “I sometimes feel this is a depressing situation and how much longer are we going to have to restrict ourselves,” she said. “People don’t want others to be in…
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News Nursing homes cut staff and programs as elderly, terrified of COVID-19, stay away
Founded in 1951, the William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta can serve seniors with a range of needs, from those who have lost their memory to those who just require a little help to live on their own. In normal times, about 130 people live there — and there’s a waiting list. Today, 15% of…
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News Jewish groups convince Zoom—again— to pull plug on Leila Khaled at University of Hawaii
They’re at it again. After being denied by social media organizations a platform to speak at San Francisco State University last month, Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was billed as the featured speaker this Friday, Oct. 23, at the University of Hawaii. Program organizers promoted that they would use the Zoom platform to speak with her…
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News Professor claims Oberlin denied her tenure for being ‘another white woman from the Midwest’
It was like a bolt out of the blue. You should look elsewhere for a job next year, Alice Blumenfeld recalls Ann Cooper Albright, her department chair at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, tell her in July 2019 as the two discussed a tenure-track position that was being created the following year in the Dance…
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