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Culture
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July 11, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • When it was first announced that Mother Jones and her army of child protesters would be descending on Trenton, N.J., to demonstrate against the exploitation of child labor in the mills, the mayor declared that they were not wanted there. However, after being visited by Mother Jones, the mayor changed his…
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July 4, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • After a long wait, the Jews of the Lower East Side finally have a park they can call their own. Seward Park, located on East Broadway, opened this week without much fanfare. The park is a godsend for the thousands of residents who seek respite from the stifling air in their…
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Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y
Just months before the 2002 election, Danny Goldberg, the music industry macher who shells out big bucks to progressive causes, received an invitation to a Democratic Party fundraiser. It featured the following Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote: “Never before in modern history have the essential differences between the two major political parties stood out in such…
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June 27, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • A lynch mob of about 4,000 men, women and children broke into the Wilmington, Del., jail and dragged out George White, who was black, and burned him alive on a bonfire. White had been accused of raping and killing the daughter of a local reverend. His trial had been scheduled for…
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June 20, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • When Pavolachi Krushevan, editor of the antisemitic newspaper Besarabets, and whose articles are widely believed to have incited the hooligans of Kishinev to attack the Jews, walked out of his office into the street, he was quickly surrounded by a gang of Jewish youths who had recognized the renowned antisemite. A…
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June 13, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • The spirit of Hirsh Lekert lives. A Jewish woman by the name of Grunskin was arrested for being a member of an underground revolutionary organization and brought before Chief Novitski, the officer responsible for the Kiev gendarmerie. Novitski is well known among the Kiev revolutionaries for his sadism, and more than…
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June 6, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • “Bravo African Jews!” trumpets a headline on the Forward’s front page. The paper takes great pride in the fact that Tripoli’s Jews are refusing to pay taxes and are demanding equality with their fellow Muslim citizens. Tripoli, which is under Turkish rule, is one of the largest cities in North Africa…
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May 30, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Thousands filled Carnegie Hall to take part in a meeting to protest the Russian government’s complicity in the barbaric pogroms in Kishinev. Some of the most influential Americans attended the meeting, including former president Grover Cleveland, who expressed his sympathy for the victims. This protest meeting and dozens of others in…
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Film & TV (Orthodo)X-Men
In the long-running comic book series “The Uncanny X-Men,” a string of genetic mutations gives birth to a sub-species of humans endowed with super powers. The mutants strike fear in political and military leaders, who worry that this new breed will supplant its genetic predecessors. This alternate reality forms the basis for two movies, “X-Men”…
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May 23, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Following the recent pogroms in Kishinev, fear has engulfed the Jewish communities of the Russian empire. Last week, more than 35,000 Jews were expelled from the city of Kiev. In response, groups of brave, young Jews in Kiev, Tiraspol, Odessa, Ekaterinoslav and other cities have secretly armed and dispersed themselves in…
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May 9, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Since most Jews in America are no longer religious, it seems odd that the market for tefillin and prayer shawls is much more active here than in Europe. A salesman of religious articles explained why: A religious Jew only needs to buy a prayer shawl and phylacteries once, and he uses…
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