Category — Forward

The Forward has a front page story on the success of the Jewlicious Festival.

Not bad. Not bad at all, guys.

HIAS and Far-Left Remain in Driver’s Seat on Immigration Policy

A New Push, A Broader Jewish-Hispanic Alliance

The not-for-profit leadership is well aware that the rank and file of the Jewish community have serious misgivings over a “path to citizenship” and “family reunification.” And they couldn’t care less.
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Best Jew-Libel Ever! And from the Agudath Israel Spokesman

Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for the loathsome haredi Agudath Israel, has blamed the Haitian earthquake on Eli Valley’s comic in the Forward newspaper. No, I am not fucking kidding.

His heimeshe writes,
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A couple of weeks back, a brawl erupted over whether an NCSY-backed program taught mandatory Hebrew to their students. It turns out, that one does.

The study of Hebrew is a critical issue, as the Forward notes this week in, “Taking Hebrew Seriously.”
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While 80,000 Holocaust survivors live(d) below the poverty line in Israel (impoverished by Israeli standards), American Jewry built museum after museum after center.

Jewish groups are fighting over who is more entitled to fundraise for their organizational projects in the name of the dead.

The Los Angeles Jewish community is particularly shameless and vile.

Gal Beckerman reports in the Forward,
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Halfsours insists that Eli Valley’s new comic savaging the “cool Jew” phenomenon signals that we are at “the middle of the end” of the hipster movement generally.

I am inclined to agree. Frankly, in our troubled economic times, and with so many problems besieging our nation, many of us lost patience with this “ironic” nonsense a long time ago.

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Please see, “Between Baalat Teshuva and Britney Spears” on the Forward, and my response on Jewcy.

I would strongly advise my more religious readers actually read Dr. Sztokman’s piece before dismissing it as “Ortho-bashing” the way so many do when anyone dares question the goals and methods of universal fahfrumtage.

If only someone had sent them there

But Jewdar inadvertantly demonstrated that I would have been wrong.

Jewdar lambasted the Forward’s article on Heeb. Heeb’s writers are such greenhorns to Yiddish, they make up words and declare them “Yiddish.” Being Heeb, their readership is utterly clueless when this happens. Obviously, Heeb’s writers do have a lot of knowledge about compelling “side-glance” Jewish topics, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has changed since the 90s, the careers of (the siblings of) pop stars, and how to determine the sex of a guinea pig. And such contributions may prove no less valuable than Heeb’s contributions to the Yiddish language itself, even if it is not the hardest thing to contribute something at least equal in value to gornisht.

And yet…despite Heeb’s continued contributions to American Jewish literacy, there is something sad and not a small bit unsavory in seeing Heeb’s outrage over what is admittedly not the finest Forward attempt at strategizing a revival of Yiddish (it’s so happening!), even among a long string of most dubious declarations of such a resurgence.

If anything, Heeb may be proving the Forward has a point. If you don’t teach your kid all those annoying Yiddish sayings, or even more likely, if you don’t teach them anything at all, they could–rachmana litzlan–grow up to be Heeb readers, or worse (nebach), Heeb writers.

In “J Street and Main Street: The Israel Lobby We Need,” Daniel Treiman, the Forward’s opinion editor, offers support and justification for the role that J Street is filling.
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The Forward writes in an editorial entitled, “Birth-responsibility,” that,

Birthright NEXT’s decision to grant New York’s Jewish Enrichment Center a virtual monopoly on outreach to local Birthright alumni is such a worrying anomaly. About 28% of all Birthright participants come from the New York area, yet their only follow-up option is at this well-endowed center run by rabbis who were trained at an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva. As our Gal Beckerman has reported, though plenty of New York alums say that the JEC is a welcoming, non-judgmental place, others have described being lured into an indoctrination process that borders on the deceptive.

How long has this been going on? A long time. I wish I had known. Right under my nose. I knew the JEC was Orthodox, but I had no idea it was ultra-Orthodox. That it was Dark Light.
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