Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News ZOA Protests Campus Speaking Engagements by Tutu
The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the…
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Israel News Million-Dollar Psychic Challenge Awaits Brooklyn Girl
It will be the rematch of the year. In one corner is Natalia Lulova, an 11-year-old Jewish immigrant from St. Petersburg, Russia — now living in Brooklyn — who says that she can see through blindfolds. In the other corner is James Randi, a 74-year-old former magician and avowed skeptic — known in his magician…
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News Author Paints a Picture of Iraq’s Future After Saddam
In “The New Iraq,” author Joseph Braude paints a vivid portrait of modern-day Iraq and lays out a detailed plan for rebuilding the country after the war. But Braude — who has lived in Cairo, Amman, Riyadh, and Tehran — has never actually been to Iraq. Not yet, anyway. “I’ll be on the first plane…
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News Fishy Story Tests Chasidic Town’s Beliefs
NEW SQUARE, N. Y. — Skver chasidim from Brooklyn to Montreal are discussing the latest miracle: New Square’s talking fish. In the back of a local fish market, more than a month ago — so the story goes — a carp opened its mouth and declared that it was the soul of a childless Canadian…
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News Animal Rights Group Invokes Holocaust
Matt Prescott believes there is another holocaust happening today in America — against cows and chickens. Prescott, 21, is the youth outreach coordinator at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and is one of the brains behind “Holocaust on Your Plate,” an exhibit of posters that pairs images of soon-to-be slaughtered animals with photographs…
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News THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Ahead of the Field: “People look at me as if I was from another planet,” laments Ahmad Rezkallah in the February 18 issue of Arab News, an English-language Saudi daily. It’s hard to know why, since Rezkallah is described as “a pleasant man with a broad smile” who earns a decent living hacking off people’s…
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News To Some Arabs, Iraq War Means Freedom
Hatem Mukliss’s family comes from Tikrit, Iraq — Saddam Hussein’s hometown. And like the Iraqi leader, Mukliss is a Sunni Muslim. The similarities end there. Mukliss’s father was an official in the Iraqi government until 1993, when he was murdered by Saddam’s regime. The killing inspired Mukliss to dedicate his life to deposing Saddam. “I…
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News LASTING HATREDS
Two Jews are found on a deserted island, goes the old joke, by a passing ocean liner. The men who come to shore to rescue the two Jews see three structures on the island. When asked, one of the Jews explains, “Well, the first is my synagogue, the second is his synagogue and neither of…
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