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Son pays for mother’s militant politics
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Dial Press, 304 pages, $22. Reviewed...
Local players sought for Israeli recreational hockey tournament
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN /Â Community News Editor When hockey player and coach Jacob Mars was preparing to spend a year...
5769: The year in review
Terrorists kill Chabad emissaries in Mumbai; Madoff’s Ponzi scheme leads to collapse; Franken elected to U.S. Senate JTA Staff Report...
Six weeks in Africa can change your life
By CARLY ETTINGER “Africa, I came to change you, but instead you changed me.” — “Africa” by the Paul Coleman...
Norm Coleman suffers from Bell's palsy
Former Senator Norm Coleman has revealed that he has Bell's palsy, which has caused partial paralysis on the left side...
Israel boycott groups draw a bead on Leonard Cohen
The international movement to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) — which evokes the sexual practices known as bondage and discipline...
Dovish Israel lobby groups realign
The Forward recently reported that J Street, the dovish D.C.-based Israel lobby, will take over the "the Jewish community’s largest...
Sholom's Johnson Hospice frees butterflies
Butterflies rise above Heidi’s Garden on the Shaller Family Sholom East campus. (Photo: Mordecai Specktor) Johnson Hospice Care Agency hosted...
Haaretz: Release of Gilad Shalit could happen before Rosh Hashana
Haaretz reports today that a prisoner swap deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas in 2006,...
New York Post reports Bernard Madoff dying of cancer in federal prison
Bernard Madoff, architect of the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out the assets of many Jewish families and organizations,...
