Jewish Daily Forward

forward.com — Danon Calls for New Detention Facilities Following Wednesday's violent protest against African migrants in Tel Aviv, Likud MK Danny Dannon called to remove African asylum seekers from population centers in Israel. Speaking to Haaretz, Dannon said that the immediate solution for calming the situation and for putting a stop to the violence requires the evacuation of the African migrants from south Tel Aviv.

forward.com — Editorial Last year, the Berkeley Media Studies Group analyzed news coverage of child sexual abuse and concluded that one reason such abuse is underreported and misunderstood is that the media employs vague and inconsistent language in its stories.

forward.com — Leaders Say Parents, Teachers Should Delay Reporting to Police An Orthodox parent whose child tells him he's been sexually abused may not take that child's claim to the police without first getting religious sanction from a specially trained rabbi, the head of America's leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella group has told the Forward.

blogs.forward.com — By Allison Kaplan Sommer Mazel tov, Priscilla and Mark! You pulled it off: a surprise wedding. What was supposed to be a medical school graduation party for a newly minted M.D. turned out to be an event in which she collected a M.R.S. degree and also wedded a newly minted billionaire.

forward.com — Jewish Fruit Mogul Toppled Regimes and Inspired Revolution The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King By Rich Cohen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pages, $27 The cover of Rich Cohen's engrossing tale of the life of Sam Zemurray shows a banana sprouting from Zemurray's head like a big curved penis.

forward.com — Leaders Say Parents, Teachers Should Delay Reporting to Police An Orthodox parent whose child tells him he's been sexually abused may not take that child's claim to the police without first getting religious sanction from a specially trained rabbi, the head of America's leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella group has told the Forward.

m.forward.com — More Credit Where Credit is Due By Jane Eisner Many of us were grateful that the public editor of The New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, chose to devote his column today on the issue of crediting publications such as ours for the work we do.

blogs.forward.com — By Debra Nussbaum Cohen It's Yentl for the 21st century. A female reporter from The New York Observer's tech blog, BetaBeat, snuck into Sunday's ultra-Orthodox, men-only rally against the dangers of the Internet by dressing up - apparently rather convincingly - as a man.

blogs.forward.com — By Josh Nathan-Kazis On the G train home from the ultra-Orthodox rally at Citifield last night, I talked Zionism with a passel of Hasidim headed for Williamsburg. A rabbi named Yechiel Meir Katz had drawn an implicit historical parallel in his address earlier in the evening between the rejection of Zionism by the Orthodox and the need to reject the Internet.

blogs.forward.com — By Gal Beckerman How many clichés is it possible to stuff into one soft feature about Tel Aviv? That was my thought as I was watching Bob Simon's 60 Minutes segment on the city, which included, in the first three minutes, these good, old chestnuts: "dancing on the Titanic," "the last days of Pompeii," and "later-day Sodom."

blogs.forward.com — By Josh Nathan-Kazis On the G train home from the ultra-Orthodox rally at Citifield last night, I talked Zionism with a passel of Hasidim headed for Williamsburg. A rabbi named Yechiel Meir Katz had drawn an implicit historical parallel in his address earlier in the evening between the rejection of Zionism by the Orthodox and the need to reject the Internet.

forward.com — At Ultra-Orthodox Rally, Some Back Limited Web Use Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men numbering 40,000 packed New York's Citi Field May 20 for a fiery and sometimes tearful rally about the dangers of the Internet. As bewildered-looking stadium staff looked on, oceans of men in black hats filled nearly every seat in the Queens, N.Y., baseball stadium to hear a series of polemics against the use of the web.

blogs.forward.com — By Jane Eisner Many of us were grateful that the public editor of The New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, chose to devote his column today on the issue of crediting publications such as ours for the work we do.

forward.com — In Babel's Hometown, Community Is Vibrant as Ever I came to Odessa chasing a myth. I found it around midnight in a hookah bar on Sobornaya Square, where the music segued effortlessly from trip-hop to a medley of Hebrew songs, "Siman Tov U'Mazal Tov," "Hava Nagila," and then back to an electronic beat.

yiddish.forward.com — ייִוו״אָ, דער ייִדישער וויסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט, האָט אין 1964 צום ערשטן מאָל אָרגאַניזירט און צונויפֿגעזאַמלט מומחים פֿון דער גאָרער וועלט צו באַהאַנדלען די טעמע פֿון ייִדן און די "לינקע".