Ron Dicker
By Ron Dicker
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News The Value Of an Arab Life
Shlomi Eldar, a TV journalist in Israel, thought he had created a simple feel-good documentary about saving the life of a Palestinian baby. Then, the plot thickened like a Hollywood drama. ?Precious Life? begins optimistically enough. An anonymous Israeli whose soldier son was killed by Palestinians agrees to put up $50,000 for a bone marrow…
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The Schmooze Rangers’ Jewish GM Is Conquering the Major Leagues, But Not as a Batter
The Texas Rangers’ Jewish general manager, Jon Daniels, idolized the Mets while growing up in Queens, but he always assumed his future wouldn’t include being a star ballplayer for the team. It became that much more apparent when he tried out for the freshman baseball team at Hunter College High School in Manhattan. As he…
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News A Football Team That Recites the Sh’ma
San Diego Jewish Academy, which fields what it says is the nation’s only all-Jewish high school football team, is experiencing its share of tsuris. Last season, its first year of playing 11 boys on a side, the academy won six games and lost two to make the playoffs and raise expectations. But in the offseason,…
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Culture Make Me A Match
Shortly after the North American press premiere of “The Matchmaker” hit technical difficulties and screened without English subtitles, the film’s Israeli director, Avi Nesher, tried to calm himself. “Wrist-slashing is an option,” he said. About 100 journalists and industry types showed up for the recent Toronto International Film Festival screening, and dwindled to a handful…
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Culture Jews Behaving Badly
The cringe-inducing spectacle of Jews tied to the world financial implosion took center stage at the recent Cannes Film Festival. Even fiction got in on the act. From investment bankers called out by the documentary “Inside Job” to the haimish yet shady broker played by Frank Langella in the new feature “Wall Street: Money Never…
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Culture At 101, Director Points His Art at Persecution
It took a 101-year-old Catholic to give Judaism its due at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Manoel de Oliveira, the oldest active director in the world, breathed new life into the ancient issue of persecution in “The Strange Case of Angelica.” Angelica (Pilar López de Ayala) may sound like she’s the subject, but the…
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News Against All Odds, Israel Hopes for Medals at Winter Games
With only one major ice rink and a mountain that would never be confused with the Alps, Israel is being buffeted by opposing forces as it prepares to send a small delegation of athletes to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. On one side are Israeli citizens who see no manifest destiny for the nation to…
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Culture Our Father, In Law
William Kunstler, the late civil rights lawyer, used to brag to his daughters, Emily and Sarah, that he was the only Jew in a youth street gang of Latinos and blacks. Fueled by the values of his faith, Kunstler later commanded turf far beyond his neighborhood. “The work that Bill did with the outcasts, the…
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