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Israel News Ramblings of a Faded Screen Idol
At a July 12 party sponsored by the Hallmark Channel, Daniel Fienberg, a writer for the entertainment Web site zap2it.com, bumped into 1980s screen star Steve Guttenberg (“Diner,” “Police Academy,” “Short Circuit”). Asked what he has been up to, the actor could scarcely contain his enthusiasm: “I’m doing something, it’s actually called ‘Jew Fever.’ It’s…
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News NEWSDESK
National Vouchers Pushed Republicans in Congress proposed a national school-voucher program. The $100 million program proposed Tuesday would pay for low-income students in weak public schools to attend private or religious schools. The money would go for tuition and for private tutoring. Politically conservative and Orthodox Jews support vouchers, saying they increase school choice and…
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Israel News Looking Back
100 YEARS AGO IN THE FORWARD In a surprise move, more than 1,200 neckwear makers from a number of Lower East Side sweatshops went on strike this week. Making this strike different from others is the fact that most of the striking workers are children, some of them as young as 9 years old and…
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Israel News Tab Flubs Cop Scoop
The New York Post is famed for its loud, brash and occasionally hilarious headlines. It is also famous for sometimes getting the story dead wrong. (See, for instance, the paper’s July 6, 2004 “exclusive” declaring Dick Gephardt “Kerry’s Choice” for vice president.) The Post goofed again this week with a lead story touting the New…
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Israel News Einstein’s Theory of Infidelity
The Hebrew University this week released a treasure-trove of letters written by Albert Einstein between 1912 and 1955, the year of the physicist’s death. The correspondence shows that in addition to his knack for unlocking the secrets of the universe, Einstein was also a supremely prolific philanderer. Remarkable also is the candor with which he…
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Israel News Actor Gets Lesson in History — and Crankiness
Actor Jeff Goldblum made his first-ever visit to Israel last week in preparation for his role in the upcoming Holocaust-themed film “Adam Resurrected,” which is based on a novel of the same name by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk. At a July 10 press conference featuring the actor, the author and the film’s director, Paul Schrader,…
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Opinion The Second Front
The sudden escalation on Israel’s northern front this week added a disturbing complication to the three-week-old crisis in Gaza, but it also served, in the curious way of the Middle East, as a clarifying development. It was a reminder that there is, in the final analysis, no such thing as unilateral action. One may act…
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News DER YIDDISH-VINKL
As readers of Der Vinkl know so well, Stanley Siegelman and Joan Braman are two of the column’s most prolific contributors, but this week’s entry is different from all their previous ones; it is a joint effort. Siegelman explained why. “My usual procedure is to compose in Yiddish and then translate into English. For the…
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