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The Way We Live Now: Without Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, essayist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and so many other things, will perhaps be most important to the future of American culture — if it indeed has a future — as an introducer. With her death on December 28 at age 71, there are few inquisitive enough to fill that all-important role. And there are…
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Journalist Jack Newfield, Fighter for the Underdog
From humble beginnings in the poor Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Jack Newfield rose to become one of the most important crusading newspapermen of his era, a working-class hero zealously exposing mendacious slumlords and corrupt judges and politicians. But he simultaneously rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful, becoming a confidant to such power brokers as…
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Bringing the Forgotten Sounds of the Past Back to Life
During a recent Friday night service, Natasha Hirschhorn introduced her congregation to a melody that she had newly arranged for the Sabbath prayers. It was the first time the spirited but mournful tune ever had been heard in Ansche Chesed, the Conservative synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where Hirschhorn serves as musical director. In…
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Canadian Ethics Umpire Uncovers a ‘Strippergate’
OTTAWA — When reports surfaced earlier this month that a stripper had been given “landed immigrant” status by Canada’s immigration minister shortly after she’d worked as a volunteer on the minister’s re-election campaign, federal Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro launched an investigation. It’s the ethics umpire’s job to enforce the federal code of conduct for public…
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Espionage Charges Still Taint Army Engineer’s Career
In the mid-1990s, Army engineer David Tenenbaum noticed that the Army’s lightweight trucks, like the famous Humvee, were woefully lacking in protective armor. At his base in Michigan, Tenenbaum began researching new ways to protect the vehicles, but the project was cut short in 1997, when he was accused of being a spy for Israel….
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Celebrating Three Centuries Of Prosperity and Tolerance
GIBRALTAR — The Jewish community of Gibraltar ended their Saturday services the way they do all important celebrations: with a blessing for Prince Charles and the rest of the royals, and by singing a rousing rendition of “God Save the Queen” in Hebrew. This Saturday, though, they were celebrating something particularly important: the anniversary of…
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Dare We Trust the FDA?
The Federal Drug Administration is now under fire. It has been accused of not doing a proper job in protecting the public against drugs that have been charged with bringing on dangerous side effects. One such medication is Vioxx. The dangers of this drug were brought to the attention of the FDA some four years…
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Summer Camp Alumni Gather To Commemorate Founder
On a recent Thursday evening in Manhattan, a multigenerational gathering of more than 300 people shared a sentiment in short supply these days: hopefulness. The alumni of Camp Massad had come together on the occasion of the 30th-day commemoration, or shloshim, of the death of camp founder Shlomo Shulsinger Shear Yashuv. The feeling was inspired…
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Author Tells the Tale of Her Grandmothers’ Survival
For followers of the émigré writers spawned by the Soviet Union in its waning days — writers like Lara Vapnyar, Gary Shteyngart and David Bezmozgis — the bare outlines of Masha Gessen’s biography should be familiar. Born in 1967 to a computer scientist father and a translator mother, she spent her early years, precocious yet…
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Elevating Greed Over Need
Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration, has now joined the growing list of Cabinet members who are “resigning” their posts as Bush’s first term makes way for his second term in office. Thompson’s farewell address was a scary script — not just about health and human services but also,…
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Tunisian Chief Rabbi Dies at 65
Tunisia’s president sent his condolences to the Jewish community after the country’s chief rabbi, Haim Madar, died December 3 at 65, Tunisian Jewish groups in France said. Madar had been ill for some time and had been unable to attend the annual Lag B’Omer pilgrimage to the island of Djerba, a centerpiece of Jewish life…
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