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News Threats Drive Yemenites From Village
After receiving death threats from a Shi’ite extremist group, some 45 members of the tiny Jewish community in Yemen were forced to flee their homes in a northern village this month and were staying in a hotel in a nearby city, according to press reports from the region. A leader of the Jewish refugees, Dawoud…
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News Lisa Goldberg, 54, Foundation President
Lisa Goldberg, president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, died Monday of a brain aneurysm. She was 54. From 2003 until her death, Goldberg had been president of Revson, which makes grants in the area of urban affairs, education, Jewish philanthropy and education, and biomedical research policy. “We are devastated by the loss of our…
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News Grandma, 106, Had Hundreds Of Descendants
Maryasha Garelik, a Lubavitcher Hasid who survived pogroms, Soviet persecution and the Nazi killing machine, died in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights last Wednesday. The progenitor of more than 560 direct descendants, she was 106. Garelik, who was known in her community as Bubbe Maryasha, was born in tsarist Russia. Her father and her…
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Culture Winning Works
The Jewish Book Council has just announced the winners of the 2006 National Jewish Book Awards, which will be presented March 6 at New York’s Center for Jewish History. Below are some of the winners that were reviewed in the Forward. Click on the book titles to read the reviews. For a complete list of…
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News Police Clash With Hasidim in Tel Aviv Suburb
Security officers were assaulted this week by dozens of Orthodox Jews as they attempted to enter a Hasidic-owned hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of B’nai Brak to track down a Jerusalem man under house arrest there, after the homing device on his court-ordered electronic bracelet went dead, according to a report in the daily…
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Israel News Our Loss, Boise State’s Gain
The Boise State Broncos needed three trick plays in the final seconds of regulation and overtime Monday night to beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl and cap an improbable undefeated season. One of the stars of the games, Boise State junior safety Marty Tadman, who ran an interception back for a touchdown in…
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Israel News Late Night Quiz for Carter
Can anyone blame former President Jimmy Carter for believing that the American media harbor a stifling pro-Israel bias? First his book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster), was trashed in the pages of The Washington Post by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and on Slate.com by Michael Kinsley, as well as by other pundits. Then Carter…
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News Emory Professor Resigns to Protest Carter Book
A prominent Middle East scholar, Kenneth W. Stein, announced his resignation as a fellow of Emory University’s Carter Center, in response to former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” Stein did not give the book’s title in the e-mail announcing his resignation, saying that it was “a title too inflammatory to even…
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