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Nobel Ceremony To Honor Two Israeli Scientists
Two Israeli scientists will officially receive the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry December 10, during a Nobel Foundation ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Professors Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, researchers on the medical faculty at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, will be honored along with Dr. Irwin Rose of the University of California, Irvine, for their…
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The Outsourcing of America
The latest development in the outsourcing of America is the startling and almost unimaginable news that American drug companies are “outsourcing” their R and D (Research and Development) to China. This was supposed to be impossible. But the impossible is now not only possible but, if one looks back on the evolution of outsourcing in…
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Freddy Diament, Organizer of Holocaust Survivors
Freddy Diament, a Holocaust survivor and prominent figure in the movement to commemorate the Holocaust, died of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles on November 13. He was 81. Diament dedicated his life to what he called “finding meaning and purpose in his survival,” working tirelessly with Jewish organizations and schools of all types so…
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Keeping Yiddish Culture Alive, One Melody at a Time
Chana Mlotek refuses to play favorites. After half a century of preserving Yiddish music — most notably through a celebrated Forverts column written with her late husband — she refuses to say which Jewish folk-tune she loves best. “On no, you can’t do that,” she said in a recent interview with the Forward. “It’s like…
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The Fear of Majority Rule
Is the fabled American democracy paving the way for an American tyranny? Simply to ask the question seems downright foolish. At least it does to most of us. But to the Founding Fathers, who composed the Constitution, it was a real question. They were concerned about what they called “the tyranny of the majority.” In…
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Rabbi, Interfaith Leader Solomon Bernards, 90
Rabbi Solomon Bernards, director of interreligious cooperation at the Anti-Defamation League for 22 years, died on the morning of November 9 near his home in Rockport, Md., of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 90 years old. A progressive bridge-builder between faiths, genders and races, Bernards’s tenure at the ADL was focused in part on…
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Big Names Aid Young Turk’s Election Victory
PHILADELPHIA — One bright spot for Democrats on a generally gloomy Election Day was the election of Josh Shapiro to the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. In his first run for public office, Shapiro, 31, won with 54% of the vote, despite having to campaign in a suburban Philadelphia district with more registered Republicans than…
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Four-Letter Word for Puzzling Guest at Clinton Bash
Jewish icons such as Shimon Peres and Barbra Streisand were easy to find among the raincoat-clad crowd last week, when 30,000 people gathered for the dedication of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. But it would have taken a more discerning eye to spot David J. Kahn, even though his work has been…
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Slain Filmmaker Left Complex Legacy
Several Muslim activists with possible connections to international terrorist networks have been arrested in the wake of the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Earlier this month in Amsterdam, the anti-Islamic filmmaker was killed by a Muslim militant, igniting a wave of violent incidents against churches and mosques in the Netherlands. Ruben Vis, the…
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Labor, Civil Rights Organizer Harry Fleischman, 90
Harry Fleischman, a leader of Eugene V. Debs’s Socialist Party USA, and a life-long agitator for civil rights and social justice, died of cancer at his son Peter’s home in Manhattan on November 1. He was 90 years old. Born in the Bronx on October 3, 1914, Fleischman became involved with the party as a…
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Using Tiny Tools To Teach Children a Big Lesson
Politics has indeed made some unusual bedfellows for Matthew Hiltzik, a 32-year-old senior vice president at Miramax Films. A graduate of Fordham Law School, he quickly ascended to deputy executive director of New York’s Democratic party in the late 1990s, and went on to manage Jewish relations for Hillary Clinton during her Senate run, before…
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