Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Life Arrest Expected in Chandra Levy Case
Charges are reportedly imminent in the disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy, the Washington intern, who had been romantically linked to the former California Congressman Gary Condit. Levy’s parents — who, at the time of her disappearance, were members of the Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Modesto, Calif. — were informed Friday that…
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Life The Nation: Lieberman’s Israel Undeserving of ‘Bashir’
How could a populace that rates Ari Folman’s Oscar-nominated “Waltz With Bashir” the third best Israeli film of all time have voted to make the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party the nation’s third-largest faction? That is the question posed by writer and Israeli army veteran Liel Leibovitz in an essay published on The Nation’s Web site….
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News Psychotherapy’s Jewish Roots
Although the Pentagon recently decided against awarding the Purple Heart to veterans suffering psychological trauma as a result of war, America has come a long way in acknowledging the prevalence of mental distress — whatever its source — and embracing psychotherapy as a treatment. The evolution of the so-called talking cure during the second half…
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Life Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hitler in Tel Aviv
In the second parking-related hubbub that has infuriated some Jews in about as many months, a YouTube clip that shows the likeness of Adolf Hitler enraged over a 250-shekel parking fine in Tel Aviv, has some Holocaust survivors up in arms. The parody, which borrows footage from “Downfall” — the 2004 movie about Hitler’s final…
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Life Hollywood’s ‘Jewish Influence’ and the Case Against ‘The Reader’
In the days after Ron Rosenbaum on Slate derided “The Reader” as “The Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made,” and “a film whose essential metaphorical thrust is to exculpate Nazi-era Germans from knowing complicity in the Final Solution,” a campaign is underway to keep Oscar judges from voting for the film, which is nominated in the…
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Life Jewish Conspiracy Theories All The Rage in Asia
Books that purport to chronicle world Jewry’s plot to rule the world are flying off shelves in China and Japan. Such conspiracy theories are also prevalent in Malaysia, the Philippines and, to some extent, throughout Asia, according to a recently published essay by the Anglo-Dutch writer Ian Buruma. But unlike standard-issue Western antisemitism — accusations…
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Life A Red-Faced Knesset
One Member of the Knesset issued an ethics claim against himself after he got into a drunken argument with nightclub security guards; another MK attempted to diagnose a “sexual perversion”; still another was arrested for smuggling 25,000 Ecstasy tablets into Israel. And a fellow parliamentarian delivered a moving eulogy for a colleague who was still…
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Life Cantor Among Buffalo Crash Victims
Among the 50 people who died in Thursday’s plane crash outside of Buffalo was Cantor Susan Wehle of Temple Beth Am in Williamsville, N.Y. Wehle, who was ordained at Aleph — Alliance for Jewish Renewal, had been working at the synagogue since 2002. She had recently released a CD titled “Shirei Refuah v’Tikvah — Songs…
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