Will surprises ever cease. Not only are we having a "white Passover" thanks to a freak snow shower on the eve of Chag Aviv, but we are hearing praise for President Barack Obama from unexpected quarters.
Jonathan Tobin is known to our community as the executive editor of Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent from 1998 to 2008. Since then he has been the senior online editor the non-Conservative monthly magazine Commentary. He has never been a fan of the Democrats, but Obama's visit to Israel last week seems to have impressed him:
But one thing has undoubtedly changed in the aftermath of the presidential visit to Israel: Barack Obama's image as an antagonist of the Jewish state. In terms of his attitude toward Israel, in the past three days Obama has altered his status in that regard from being the second coming of Jimmy Carter to that of another Bill Clinton. That won't exempt him from criticism, nor does it mean that he will have even a remote chance of succeeding in moving the region toward peace. But it does mean that many of his Jewish and Democratic defenders have been to some extent vindicated and his critics chastened, if not silenced.
Similarly, ZOA President (and Lower Merion resident) Mort Klein has villified Obama for his Cairo speech but now seems genuinely pleased with Obama's latest trip to the Middle-East:
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today praised several important, positive statements made by President Barack Obama's during his visit to Israel. In speeches delivered in Israel, President Obama testified to the millennia-old Jewish religious and historical bond with the land of Israel; the success of Zionism in transforming the Jewish people into a genuinely free people in their own land; called for Hizballah to be labeled by all as a terrorist organization; called for the Palestinians to accept Israel as a Jewish state and for Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel; and affirmed America as Israel's strongest ally and greatest friend.
The Klein JCC in the Northeast section of the city is partnering with the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in the development of a unique new leadership program earmarked for young Russian professional Jewish families.
Most arguments about tax brackets in the United States are over a percentage point or two. Obama wants the top rate to rise 4.6 points to 39.6 percent; Republicans want it to stay at 35 percent. Despite the revenue costs of low rates, some self-styled deficit hawks want the top rate to go even lower. Simpson-Bowles and Domenici-Rivlin, for instance, both put it at 28 percent.
But some tax experts think this is all much too timid. Two economists, Nobel laureate Peter Diamond at MIT and Emmanuel Saez at Berkeley, have argued that the optimal top bracket is 73 percent, higher than at any point in the United States since the 1960s. Many analysts get sticker shock at that number, but the Diamond/Saez paper lacked a detailed response until AEI released a paper by Aparna Mathur, Sita Slavov and Michael Strain attempting to debunk it.
Mitt Romney says that "six studies" prove that his tax plan adds up. They don't.
Some of them reveal how Romney's tax plan could conceivably achieve what he's promised, under certain conditions — or at least come closer to it.
But others contradict the stated objectives of Romney's tax plan and make questionable assertions about how he'd pay for his rate cuts, leaving some central questions about Romney's tax plan unanswered and fueling the ongoing calls for more specifics.
Not all of the "six studies" are formal quantitative research: Three are online articles and one is an op-ed. But all try to answer the essential conundrum that the Tax Policy Center described in its original analysis: Romney wants to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts by getting rid of tax deductions and exclusions that benefit Americans earning more than $200,000.
But getting rid of those upper-income tax breaks doesn't fully pay for the rate cuts, the Tax Policy Center says: The only way to do this without increasing the deficit would be to raise taxes on lower-income Americans by an average of $2,000 to make up for a $86 billion annual shortfall - a finding that the Obama campaign now routinely cites in its attack ads.
Two of the "studies" the Romney campaign has cited are an op-ed and a blog post by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein. He says it's possible to finance Romney's tax cuts fully by closing loopholes and deductions, but only if you raise taxes on those households with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000.
And here is what Steven Colbert had to say about the Romney/Ryan mathemagical budget...
Mitt Romney says that "six studies" prove that his tax plan adds up. They don't.
Some of them reveal how Romney's tax plan could conceivably achieve what he's promised, under certain conditions — or at least come closer to it.
But others contradict the stated objectives of Romney's tax plan and make questionable assertions about how he'd pay for his rate cuts, leaving some central questions about Romney's tax plan unanswered and fueling the ongoing calls for more specifics.
Not all of the "six studies" are formal quantitative research: Three are online articles and one is an op-ed. But all try to answer the essential conundrum that the Tax Policy Center described in its original analysis: Romney wants to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts by getting rid of tax deductions and exclusions that benefit Americans earning more than $200,000.
But getting rid of those upper-income tax breaks doesn't fully pay for the rate cuts, the Tax Policy Center says: The only way to do this without increasing the deficit would be to raise taxes on lower-income Americans by an average of $2,000 to make up for a $86 billion annual shortfall - a finding that the Obama campaign now routinely cites in its attack ads.
Two of the "studies" the Romney campaign has cited are an op-ed and a blog post by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein. He says it's possible to finance Romney's tax cuts fully by closing loopholes and deductions, but only if you raise taxes on those households with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000.
And here is what Steven Colbert had to say about the Romney/Ryan mathemagical budget...
Former Representative Ron Klein (D-FL) rebutted the fallacies driving GOP attacks on Obama's track record of support for Israel in a recent op-ed article for the Sun Sentinal. Klein wrote:
The truth starts where it hurts most for the GOP - in the numbers.
President Obama has maintained his share of the Jewish vote in Florida and across the country. The American Jewish Committee's latest Florida poll shows that, if the election were held today, the President would win more than 70 percent of the Jewish vote in Florida...
Having represented South Florida in Congress and having served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I know the dangerous threats Israel faces on a daily basis. I have seen up close and have personally talked with President Obama about his deep commitment to ensuring Israel's safety and security. While Gov. Romney has only made inconsistent promises and reckless rhetoric about Middle East policy, President Obama has a record of statements - and more importantly, actions and results - on behalf and in support of Israel's security.
Consider the strengthening of the U.S.-Israel relationship since President Obama took office. Record levels of aid for Israel's security coupled with additional investments in the Iron Dome system to protect Israeli families from rocket attacks. Security and intelligence cooperation are at all-time highs. The largest joint military exercises between our nations in history. And a repeated, consistent, and forceful defense of Israel at the United Nations.
Brooklyn, NY - - The Kosher Media Network (KMN), the first multi-platform network for the kosher consumer, combining traditional media with the latest in digital technology, announced today that two highly popular kosher publications will merge. Bitayavon magazine will officially become part of Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller and operate under the umbrella of KMN. The resulting new publication will be a multi-featured magazine that will be the only one of its kind on the market focusing on the burgeoning kosher lifestyle. The merger will take effect for the fall issue.
Photo: (Left to right) Tamar Genger, Jamie Geller, Shifra Klein, Shlomo Klein
Here's something odd: There's nothing on Mitt Romney's Web site about the sixth anniversary of Romneycare. No news releases. No blog posts. Nothing.
And yet, Romneycare is doing pretty well. As you can see in Sarah's charts, it's covered about 95 percent of Massachusetts adults. Premiums are growing more slowly than the national average in both the employer and individual markets. And the law is, perhaps most importantly, very popular in Massachusetts.
Back in March, Ezra Klein interviewed "MIT economist Jon Gruber, who helped design the Massachusetts health reforms, on Romney's puzzling reticence to tout his signature accomplishment. It's relevant today, too."
In 1968, Richard Nixon ran on a platform that included a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. Does Mitt Romney expect us to believe he has a secret plan to balance the budget?
One way to avoid being called out as a flip-flopper is to avoid taking a stand at all.
For example, Romney says he'll rein in government spending. Nothing wrong with that. Everybody is in favor with doing more with less. The tough part is actually telling people what they'll have to give up in order to balance the budget. The trade-offs necessary to balance the budget require clear priorities, good judgement and political courage.
However, Romney wants the benefit of having a conservative approach to the deficit without actually having to commit to cutting any government program in particular. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Romney declined specify these budget cuts "because it wouldn't be politically expedient to do so."
One of the things I found in a short campaign against Ted Kennedy was that when I said, for instance, that I wanted to eliminate the Department of Education, that was used to suggest I don't care about education.
In fact, Romney's "budget" is not a "budget" since it lacks sufficient details to make sense of. The Committe for a Responsible Federal Budget said that Romney's plan would cause a $2.6 trillion deficit if it is not paid for. On CNBC, Mitt Romney responded to criticism that the numbers in his budget didn't add up by admitting
I think it's interesting for the groups to try and score it because it can't be scored. Frankly, it can't be scored.
It can't be scored as a budget because it is not a budget.
According to Brian Beutler, "Romney's been intentionally vague about the politically challenging parts of his plan."
Let's be clear on this: A tax plan that can't be scored because it doesn't include sufficient details is not a plan. It's a gesture towards a plan, or a statement of intended direction, or perhaps an unusually wonky daydream. But it's not a plan.
So at this point, Romney doesn't have a plan to reform the tax system. He has a statement about what he would like a reformed tax system to include: lower rates for everyone. But that's cake-and-ice-cream stuff. All the hard questions -- which tax breaks to close, for instance -- remain unanswered, and it doesn't appear that he plans to answer them anytime soon.
If you want to be President, you have to come up with a budget.
Ezra Klein writes: "Here, via Afrikent, is a nighttime shot of the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea outlined. That, right there, is Kim Jong Il's legacy. In a world that had long ago found light, he managed to keep 24 million human beings in the dark.
Or as Donald Rumsfeld said, ""If you look at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark."
Arab Bank Investigated by Bush Treasury for Links to Terrorism
— by David Streeter
JTA's Ron Kampeas provided additional reporting yesterday on the story of Patrick Cave-a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney-and the lobbying work that Cave did on behalf of the Arab Bank. The Arab Bank was investigated for links to Palestinian terrorism by the Bush Administration's Treasury Department and paid a significant fine to settle with the Treasury.
Time's Joe Klein sharply criticized Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for continuing to perpetuate falsehoods about President Barack Obama's strong record of support for Israel. Romney claimed today that "U.S.-Israeli relations have hit a low not seen since the Jimmy Carter years," and repeated the false attack regarding Obama's stance on Israel's borders.
When he's having a tough time-as he is this week-Mitt Romney's first instinct is to attack President Obama. ... But Romney's execution is usually clunky. Last week, we had the Romney ad that pretended Barack Obama was saying something that John McCain had actually said-McCain wanted to avoid talking about the economy in 2008, a brilliant strategy. That was skeevy in the extreme, especially after it became clear that the Romney staff thought the controversy over their unscrupulousness would work in their favor (tone deaf politicians always assume the public is stupid enough to buy such stuff).
This week we have another example. Romney's press office [put out a] statement about the President and Israel...
Actually, US-Israeli relations are better than they were when George H.W. Bush was President and Secretary of State Jim Baker threatened to cut off aid if Israel didn't stop expanding its illegal settlements on the West Bank, and (then) in Gaza. And among the few good things Jimmy Carter accomplished overseas was the Camp David Accords, which has provided a generation of peace between Israel and Egypt, a peace now jeopardized by the Arab Spring.
The other inaccuracy-alluded to [in Romney's statement] but expounded upon in Romney's stump speeches-is the notion that Obama wants Israel to return to its 1967 borders. He doesn't. He wants the 1967 borders, with mutually agreed upon land swaps, to be the basis for peace negotiations. Somehow, Romney neglects to mention the land swaps.
The fact is, Obama's policy toward Israel has been in line with that of every US President since Nixon. No American President has favored the annexation of any Arab lands. The fact is that US-Israeli military and intelligence cooperation, especially when it comes to sabotaging Iran's nuclear program, has never been greater....
One would hope that Romney, as one of the few plausible Republican candidates, would eschew such cheesy behavior...would not misrepresent Obama's positions on foreign policy so gleefully. But, if this race continues to slip away from him, I suspect that's exactly what we'll continue to see.
Fifth graders from the Perelman Jewish Day School in Melrose Park, PA join with seniors from the Klein JCC in Northeast Philadelphia to mark the Jewish holiday of Simchas Torah which celebrates the conclusion of the annual cycle of Torah readings. Standing from left in the front row are, Selma Fleigelman, Zev Rosenberg, Bella Magerman, Helena Federman, Sara Weingram and Brynn Kantrowitz. Sharing the moment (back row from left) are Shelley Geltzer, Klein JCC adult services program director and Rabbi Chaim Galfand, of the Perelman Jewish Day School.
Now celebrating its 36th anniversary year, the non-profit Klein JCC provides social, educational and cultural programs, as well as vital social services for people living in Northeast Philadelphia and its surrounding communities.
Shari Beck-Nahman (center) pre-school director of the Klein JCC in Northeast Philadelphia, explains the meaning of the lulav and etrog, symbols of the seven-day Jewish festival of Sukkot to pre-school students Eden Bengera, 3, (left) and Jordyn Gomer, 2, (right) both also of Northeast, while seated in the JCC's Sukkah. The Sukkah structure is symbolic of the 40-year period when the children of Israel wandered in the dessert in temporary shelters. Sukkot is a joyous fall festival also celebrating the bounty of the harvest and is usually accompanied by music, singing and dancing.
Reflect. React Renew Life's Biggest Questions. Answered by you.
-- by Tanya Schevitz
In an era where most reflection happens publicly in 140 characters or less, the 10Q project provides a private, deeper online forum for personal reflection beyond the waffles you had for breakfast.
Timed to coincide with the Jewish New Year, traditionally a time of introspection and self-reflection, 10Q is a unique project that, started today, will email participants of all backgrounds a question a day about the year that's past and the year to come. After the 10-day period, the answers are sent into a digital vault. A year later, the answers are returned to participants and the process begins again.
"Thanks to new technologies like texting and Twitter, people have more opportunities than ever to express themselves, but fewer than ever to express themselves well," said 10Q co-founder Ben Greenman, a New Yorker editor. "What 10Q wants people to do is what people should want to do for themselves -- to reflect on life without worrying about status updates."
Last Thursday, 10Q partnered with the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia on a roundtable discussion at the Museum on reflection. 10Q's Greenman moderated a panel including the Hebrew Mamita, Vanessa Hidary, and authors Charles London and Matthue Roth.
While the 10Q project is a reinvention of the ancient ritual of reflection between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and occurs during the Jewish High Holidays, it is intended for people of all backgrounds and has attracted participation of people of many denominations, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Buddhists and Muslims. The 10Q questions are about your place on the planet, and the planet's place within you.
And regrets are universal, so the events are intended for people to absolve themselves of everything from skipping services to that tweet you wish you never posted.
The projected deficit with the continuation of certain policies is based on several assumptions: first, that most of the provisions of the
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-312) that originally were enacted
in 2001, 2003, 2009, and 2010 do not expire on December 31, 2012, but instead continue; second, that the alternative minimum tax is
indexed for inflation after 2011; and third, that Medicare's payment rates for physicians are held constant at their 2011 level.
The Republican led House has insisted in draconian cuts across the board except for defense related expenses, and its own legislative budget. The defense department will expand, even without counting the "emergency spending" for the wars. The legislative branch will tighten its belt 2% while "financial services and general government" which includes the White House will be slashed by 10%. The Interior Department is reduced by 8% (mostly the EPA) while Transportation, Housing and Urban Development is cut 18%.
Majority opposes U.S. recoginition of unilaterally declared Palestinian state.
Israel seen to be making efforts for peace, not Palestinians.
Voters who say U.S. should support Israel rises.
Some 51 percent of U.S. voters oppose the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state without a signed peace treaty with Israel, a new TIP poll finds. And, 54 percent believe that without a peace treaty, the United States should not recognize a Palestinian state.
(Update: The House passed the Estate Tax windfall by a large bipartisan majority 277-148, failing to making any changes to the version which passed the Senate last week 81-19.)
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Ten years ago, Bush and the Republican Congress set out to reduce or eliminate the estate tax which they derided as the "death tax." However, is it fairer to tax people who are dead and can no longer make use of their wealth, than to increase the national debt which will be the legacy we are leaving our children and their children. Perhaps it would be fair to call the Republican proposal "a birth tax" since future generations will be born saddled with an increasing share of the national debt in order to fund lavish inheritances for multi-millionaire heirs and heiresses like Paris Hilton.
The Republicans wanted to completely eliminate the tax, but they could not resolve the budget implications involved in doing so. Instead, they employed a nice trick. They limited the budget implications by making the changes expire after a decade, but they made the changes incremental building up to this last year in which there was no estate tax whatsoever. By doing so, they hoped to set a favorable baseline for the current debate on future estate tax policy. Indeed, many people would now consider any return to the previous status quo to be a "tax hike".
Republicans argue that taxing an estate is an example of double taxation. However, this is not true since many estates consist of appreciated assets (stock, businesses, real estate) which have never been taxed, since capital gains are only taxed at the time of sale.
Republicans argue that the income tax is a disincentive to work. However, the same cannot be said of an inheritance tax. If anything, huge tax-free windfalls leave an unskilled heir or heiress without any reason to work. Winston Churchill argued that estate taxes are "a certain corrective against the development of a race of idle rich". Indeed, according to the research at Syracuse University, the more wealth one inherits, the more likely one is to quit the labor market.
There are a number of estate tax proposals on the table including one hammered out by President Obama and the Congressional Republicans, and recently passed by the Senate. They propose a 35% flat tax on estates beyond the first $3,500,000 (or $7,000,000 for couples). This plan is likely to meet stiff resistance in the House of Representatives.
If nothing is done by the end of the year, we will return to the estate tax rates prior to the passage in 2001 of Bush's Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. At that time, the estate tax applied to single people estates over $675,000 (or couples with estates twice as large). The amount over that amount was taxed progressively higher starting at 18% and reaching 55% for the portion of the estate over $3,000,000.
Though the Republicans try to frame the tax debate as a populist issue, only the richest quarter of a percent of our nation's families would pay any estate tax at all under the plan negotiated between Obama and the Republicans.
Those that do pay would only pay a marginal rate of 35% which is less than the pre-Bush top rate of 55%, and far less than the top marginal rate of 77% which was in effect from 1941-1976.
Even if Congress does nothing and the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, only 2% of estates will pay any inheritance tax whatsoever. Furthermore, this tax can be avoided in a number of ways such as leaving the excess estate to some worthy charity.
Last month Responsible Wealth gathered millionaire and multi-millionaire signers of the call who are small business owners and entrepreneurs to speak out on why they support a strong estate tax.
High-profile signers of Responsible Wealth's "call to preserve the estate tax" include Forbes 400 members David E. Shaw, Julian Robertson, Jr., George Soros, John Sperling, and Ted Turner. All six children of David Rockefeller, the oldest Forbes 400 member, have signed too....
Microbrewery owner Dave Eiffert explained how when his parents died in 1994 and there was a federal estate tax exemption of $600,000 per person, an estate tax was due. "It was pretty hard to write a large check to the IRS, but I strongly thought it was the right thing to do, and look I still had enough money to start a business and provide jobs in my state." The Snoqualmie Falls Brewery outside of Seattle that Eiffert co-founded in 1997 employs 20.
Another speaker, Jerry Fiddler, a venture capitalist in Oakland, Calif., who sold his software company Wind River Systems to Intel in 2009 and is clearly in estate tax territory, said: "The estate tax is the best possible way to pay back into the common good. I see it as a point of pride to pay back in." He said that Congress should reinstate the estate tax at the 2009 levels, indexed for inflation, adding: "They should do it now and they should do it permanently."
To find a lower tax rate imposed on the crème de la crème of society, we would have to look all the way back to the roaring twenties. This was a time when people earned their fortunes the old fashioned way, they inherited it. This was a time of the Great Gatsby and a time of speculation and excesses which led to the Great Depression.
As Justice Louis Brandeis said, "We can have concentrate wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have democracy, but we can't have both." Even Andrew Carnegie testified in support of the creation of an estate tax in 1916.
It seems that the Republican Party wants to "Take America Back" to an era of generations of entrenched wealth, creating a "new plutocrarcy to rival the industrial barons of America's Gilded Age". Unfortunately, as a misplaced gesture of "bipartisanship" Obama is willing to lead us along that road.
President Barack Obama named Gerda Weissman Klein, President George H. W. Bush and thirteen others as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The awards will be presented at a White House ceremony early next year.
"These outstanding honorees come from a broad range of backgrounds and they've excelled in a broad range of fields, but all of them have lived extraordinary lives that have inspired us, enriched our culture, and made our country and our world a better place. I look forward to awarding them this honor."
The following fifteen individuals will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom:
1. Gerda Weissmann Klein
Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who has written several books about her experiences. After Nazi Germany took over her homeland of Poland, Klein was separated from both her parents: they were sent to Auschwitz and she to a series of labor and concentration camps. In 1945, she was sent on a forced 350-mile death march to avoid the advance of Allied forces. She was one of the minority who survived the forced journey. In May 1945, Klein was liberated by forces of the United States Army in Volary, Czechoslovakia, and later married Army Lieutenant Kurt Klein, who liberated her camp. A naturalized citizen, she recently founded Citizenship Counts, an organization that teaches students to cherish the value of their American citizenship. Klein has spoken to audiences of all ages and faith around the world about the value of freedom and has dedicated her life to promoting tolerance and understanding among all people.
2. President George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President of the United States. Prior to that, he was Vice President in the Reagan Administration, Director of Central Intelligence, Chief of the U.S. Liaison's Office to the People's Republic of China, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and a Member of the House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas. He served in the Navy during World War II. President Bush and President Clinton worked together to encourage aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
Republican candidate Allen West defeated Democratic incumbent Ron Klein to represent Florida's 22nd Congressional District. He spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2010 and was endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. As one of 32 African-Americans who ran for Congress this year as Republicans, West said he supports the Tea Party movement and dismissed the notion of "racism" therein as having been made up by liberal critics and the news media.
-- David A. Harris
Congressman-elect Allen West's constituents - but especially his Jewish constituents - should be deeply concerned that he has selected incendiary talk radio host Joyce Kaufman to be his chief of staff. Kaufman's declarations that President Barack Obama's Jewish supporters 'don't embrace being Jews anymore' and are 'not serious about saving' Israel because they've 'stopped caring' are not only offensive, they call into question whether West can effectively represent his Jewish constituents and his congressional district.
West demonstrated profoundly questionable judgment in choosing a radio host with no policy experience to be his Chief of Staff, and American Jews have every right to be outraged. Kaufman's record is truly in a class of its own. In addition to her comments about the Jewish community, her remarks about immigration indicate that she does not intend to work seriously on achieving comprehensive immigration reform with her Democratic colleagues - or, for that matter, even with her Republican colleagues.
West's decision to appoint Kaufman is a clear indication that he is not ready for prime
time. It is also in keeping with the wider trend in which today's Republican Party is moving further and further to the right by the day, moving ever farther away from the vast majority of American Jews.
See Kaufman's comments on Jews in the video above.
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Will surprises ever cease. Not only are we having a "white Passover" thanks to a freak snow shower on the eve of Chag Aviv, but we are hearing praise for President Barack Obama from unexpected quarters.
The 
Brooklyn, NY - - The Kosher Media Network (KMN), the first multi-platform network for the kosher consumer, combining traditional media with the latest in digital technology, announced today that two highly popular kosher publications will merge. Bitayavon magazine will officially become part of Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller and operate under the umbrella of KMN. The resulting new publication will be a multi-featured magazine that will be the only one of its kind on the market focusing on the burgeoning kosher lifestyle. The merger will take effect for the fall issue.
-- Stu Coren
Last Thursday, 10Q partnered with the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia on a roundtable discussion at the Museum on reflection. 10Q's Greenman moderated a panel including the Hebrew Mamita, Vanessa Hidary, and authors Charles London and Matthue Roth.
