Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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News ON TOUR
“The Nutcracker” may be a traditional Christmas favorite, but that has not stopped the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra from adapting it for Chanukah use. The Boston-based group has been performing its own klezmer interpretations of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet ever since it released its “Klezmer Nutcracker” CD in 1998. “Many of the great composers of that…
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News SEPHARDIM ON THE BIG SCREEN
Moshe cannot be blamed if he’s a little bit confused. The kippa-clad Ethiopian immigrant protagonist of Zion Rubin’s 2001 film “Caravan 841” cannot figure out why his mother has not yet joined him in Israel. As he anxiously awaits the arrival of his only living parent, 11-year-old Moshe must cope with the imminent closure of…
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News OUR GREATEST GENERATION
“As a Jew, it was Hitler and me. That’s the way I pictured the war.” — Theodore Diamond, U.S. Army Air Force For America’s Jews World War II was not just a fight for their country. It was also a fight against the global scourge of fascism that threatened their fellow Jews abroad. “Ours to…
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News Foes Warn Measure Could Hurt Efforts To Fight Bias
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial bid is overshadowing a ballot initiative that will either — depending upon whom one asks — bring the Golden State one step closer to realizing the dream of a color-blind society or stymie government efforts to fight discrimination and serve an ethnically diverse population. Proposition 54, a proposed constitutional amendment on the…
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News Home’s Price Hike May Put Medicaid Seniors Out of Bed
The only Jewish nursing home in St. Louis is being slammed by critics who say its new $60 million facility is too expensive for lower- and middle-class Jews and warn that the project is busting the institution’s budget. The daily private-pay rate for a skilled-nursing bed at the Jewish Center for Aged in St. Louis…
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News IN OTHER WORDS…
A Vast Anti-Arab Conspiracy: The same right-wing forces that tried to scuttle Bill Clinton’s presidency have found a new target: Arabs. Or so argues leading Arab-American activist James Zogby in the August 18 Gulf News. Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute, writes of an “organised multi-pronged effort targeting a variety of Arab leaders, institutions and…
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News Jewish Organizations Absent at Civil Rights Rally
In 1963 leading Jewish groups lined up to support the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a climactic moment in the civil rights movement. The president of the American Jewish Congress, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, delivered an address that chief march organizer Bayard Rustin would later claim was the event’s “greatest speech,” eclipsing even Martin…
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News IN OTHER WORDS…
Godfather Knows Best: Pundits and journalists lately have had a field day with the word “neoconservative.” A quick Nexis search reveals that the word pops up in press accounts five times more often than it did just two years ago. Nevertheless, there seems to be little agreement about the term’s meaning or exactly who these…
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