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Mohel Investigated After Death of Baby
New York City health officials are investigating whether a baby died after contracting herpes during a ritual circumcision. The city officials believe that at least three babies might have contracted herpes, and one died, after Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer performed a process known as “metzizah b’peh,” in which the mohel puts his lips to the wound…
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Brooklyn-bred Hasid Takes Position of Power in Israel
JERUSALEM — While negotiations were under way to form Ariel Sharon’s new governing coalition earlier this month, most observers expected the worst infighting to come from hawks within Sharon’s own Likud Party. As it happened, the most damaging feud erupted not in the Likud but within the coalition’s junior partner, United Torah Judaism, a tiny…
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What Bush’s Inaugural Address Didn’t Address
President Bush’s Second Inaugural Address is a masterpiece of “glittering generalities” that serves a double purpose. First, it avoids making any commitments for the future about the two central issues that arose, and that have not been resolved in the first administration. We refer to the war in Iraq and to America’s economy — which…
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British Youth: Outfit Not a Problem
LONDON — The publication of pictures showing Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform at a costume party caused outrage around the world. But it seems that most of his British peers can’t see what all the fuss is about. In the days following the furor, a poll published by the Sunday Mirror newspaper showed that…
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Meet the Man Who Gave Film Audiences ‘The Fockers’
Screenwriter John Hamburg has a thing for nebbishes. Anyone who has ever seen any of Hamburg’s movies — “Meet the Parents,” “Meet the Fockers” or “Along Came Polly” — will suspect a deep and abiding love for the little guy; the helpless, Woody Allen-ish character who is flung into a world of gorgeous, athletic WASPs….
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Bringing the Forgotten Sounds of the Past Back to Life
The December 31 article “Bringing the Forgotten Sounds of the Past Back to Life” misidentified the institution that trained Cantor Natasha Hirschhorn. It was The Academy for Jewish Religion.
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Harry’s Biggest Crime? His Nazi Joke Wasn’t Funny
In the torrent of news coverage that lifted the day’s true tragedy off the front page, nearly everyone with a stake in the matter (and hundreds without one) has weighed in on the subject of Prince Harry’s “royal gaffe,” as his brief stint in the uniform of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps has come…
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Filmmaker Confronts ‘Protocols’ Myth in Documentary
In the weeks and months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, filmmaker Marc Levin kept hearing from New York City cab drivers that no Jews had died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. One Egyptian driver not only repeated the canard that “Jews were warned about 9/11,” but posited that the…
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Ali G’s Jokes Aside, Report Lauds Kazakhstan
When Jewish organizations lobbied for a law requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue an annual report on antisemitism around the globe, they probably weren’t looking to do a favor for Kazakhstan. The Central Asian country is a frequent target of “Da Ali G Show,” the HBO program in which British Jewish comedian Sacha…
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The Trustification of America
What is the economic future of America, as seen through the eyes of one who has been personally involved with the ins and outs of Wall Street? His name is Martin Lipton. And he is the founder of a Wall Street law firm that specializes in corporate takeovers. He predicts that mergers and acquisitions will…
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Murray Zuckoff, JTA Editor, 79
Murray Zuckoff, a longtime Jewish Telegraphic Agency editor-in-chief, died Sunday in New York of lung cancer at age 79. Zuckoff served as JTA editor from 1969 to 1987. In his own columns, he wrote on a wide range of issues, including Israel, poverty, black-Jewish relations and the way that Jewish issues are covered in the…
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