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General’s Stock Dump Fuels Anger Over Wartime Trio
JERUSALEM — When Israel went to war against Hezbollah on July 12, the nation seemed united behind its leaders in a common sense of mission the likes of which had not been seen in decades, all observers agreed. Five weeks later, after 157 Israeli deaths, 1000 Lebanese deaths, 4,000 Hezbollah rockets and one United Nations…
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Hey Mel! Jew’s on First!
During Tuesday night’s Boston Red Sox game, comedian Dennis Leary delivered what blogger Andrew Sullivan is describing as the best commentary yet on Mel Gibson’s recent woes. (Original hat-tip: Former Forward staffer Seth Mnookin, who has a transcript up on his blog.) Forget Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg — Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis…
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Hackers Bring War to Jewish Web Sites
Anti-war hackers broke into three Jewish Web sites last week, swapping the front pages for protests against the conflict in Lebanon. First hit were the respective Web sites of Yeshiva University and the University of Haifa, by a coalition of international hackers that was led by a Turkish man with the hacker alias Eno7. A…
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Mining Life’s Tiny Thrills
By all rights, a scene featuring a kindly grandma falling over and banging her head on a wooden synagogue pew should not be funny, but in the hands of Wendy Spero, somehow it miraculously is. Spero describes the episode in her new book, “Microthrills,” an enchanting memoir of a childhood spent in a cramped, one-bedroom…
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A Grill a Minute: Memphis Jews on ‘Que
As August’s sun sears the city of Memphis, Tenn., the one source of comfort for the sun-baked Jewish mind is, “Not long now till the ASBEE barbecue.” By that they mean the Anshei Sphard-Beth El Emeth Kroger Kosher Barbecue Contest, an event that has perfumed the skies over Memphis for 18 years. It’s the first…
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Borat Gets His Close-up
Borat Sagdiyev, the crude but lovable Kazakh alter ego of English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, is getting ready for the silver screen. This fall, the character, one of the three played by Cohen on his “Da Ali G Show,” will star in a feature film all his own. Trailers for the movie, which is snappily…
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Conservatives Slam Israeli War Strategy
WASHINGTON — Staunchly pro-Israel conservatives with close ties to the Bush administration say that Jerusalem is hindering America’s global war on terror by failing to wage an all-out war to eliminate Hezbollah. In interviews with the Forward and in recently published opinion articles, conservatives slammed Israel’s reluctance to launch a comprehensive ground-war against the Lebanese…
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Drug Users Say No to Hezbollah, Call for Wartime Hashish Boycott
JERUSALEM — Young Israeli activists are fighting back against Hezbollah — with a boycott on smoking hash. Hashish, or oil resin from marijuana plants, is one of the primary recreational drugs available in Israel. It’s smoked in much the same way that marijuana is, and because the marijuana available in Israel is generally of a…
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Two Deaths Bring Crisis Home to U.S.
HAIFA — For American Jews, the deaths last week of two immigrants to Israel — a soldier and a kibbutznik — brought the conflict in Lebanon closer to home. Pennsylvania native Michael Levin, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in clashes with Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab. Boston-area native…
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Pennsylvanians Mourn Hometown Soldier
NEWTOWN, Pa. — More than 1,200 men, women and children came together at Shir Ami, Bucks County Jewish Congregation in the Philadelphia suburbs on the evening of July 31 to demonstrate their support for the State of Israel. The evening’s most poignant moment came when a speaker recognized the presence of Mark and Harriet Levin,…
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Goals, Tactics Shift As Missiles Continue To Hit Israel
After the disaster came a revamped, harder-fisted approach to fighting. Those words describe what happened at the start of this week, when a Hezbollah missile fell among army reservists at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi near Israel’s northern tip, killing 12 men. But the same words could equally describe the way the war began almost four weeks…
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