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Pragmatic Approach to Politics Bears ‘Rosey’ Results
Three weeks before the election, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress, Jack Rosen, sat down for dinner with President Bush at a private residence in Washington. They chatted about Israel and Iran, but the conversation, like the relationship between the two men, soon went beyond politics. Eventually they were talking baseball. It was an…
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Conductor Brings Forbidden Music to New Audiences
It may be odd to put it this way, but James Conlon is on a crusade. During the past decade, the 54-year-old conductor, a native of Queens, N.Y., has proved to be a vigorous advocate of music suppressed by the Nazis. And this season, Conlon has made these scores a top priority, including them in…
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Finding Common Ground in the Mideast: The Desert
There are not many high-up posts in Jewish organizations that involve cheerful meetings with diplomats from Arab nations, but Joseph Hess has found the exception. Hess is the representative of the Jewish National Fund on the board of the International Arid Lands Consortium, and in his job he hobnobs with Jordanian and Egyptian leaders on…
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Bush’s Multiple Motives in Iraq
It is now official. Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction at the time when Bush invaded Iraq, although the invasion took place on the grounds that he did have such weapons. On October 6, Charles Duelfer, the top American inspector for Iraq, reported, to quote a Page 1 headline in The New…
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Taking a Gamble on a Controversial California Casino
SAN FRANCISCO — When Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger wrested the California governor’s office from hapless Democrat Gray Davis in 2003, both men had at least one thing in common: They opposed the opening of Indian casinos in the Golden State’s cities. But after almost a year in office, Schwarzenegger has tempered that opposition with the…
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Romania Comes to Terms With the Holocaust
Last June, President Ion Iliescu announced that “within the borders of Romania, there was no Holocaust between 1940 and 1945.” But Leizer Finkelstein doesn’t much care what Iliescu thinks. At 81, he is one of the few survivors of the Iasi pogrom of 1941, in which thousands of Jews were murdered, and one of fewer…
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Master Architect Reclaims His Status as an Underdog
In person, the designer of the master plan for Ground Zero, Daniel Libeskind, is a small, cheerful man. But during the recent, much-publicized battles over the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, he has shown that he is not afraid to roll up his sleeves. Libeskind filed a lawsuit last month against Larry Silverstein,…
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Pen in Hand, Political Cartoonist Fights for ‘Freedom’
Steve Brodner really likes Oliver North. Anyone familiar with Brodner’s political cartoons might find this difficult to believe. Brodner is a fierce, uncompromising liberal and his new book, “Freedom Fries” — a collection of his drawings — savages the American right. “My politics are much closer to Dennis Kucinich,” Brodner said. But when he met…
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Multimedia Performance
The September 24 article “Multimedia Performance” mistakenly identified Miri Ben-Shalom’s “I Can Cry!” as a film. It is a staged performance that integrates film and photographs. Also, the correct address of the Center for Jewish History is 15 West 16th St., New York, N.Y., and ticket prices are $20 and $15 for seniors, students and…
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Exhibiting Greatness in the Capital of the Yiddish World
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Rachel Kostanian recalls hearing Lithuanian guides leading tourists through the streets of this city: “They would be speaking with such pride: Here is the palace, here is the castle, and here is the museum of this and that,” said Kostanian, a longtime Jewish resident of this Baltic capital. “And I would think,…
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Rookie Scores as NFL’s First Player From Former Soviet Union
Basketball may have been the first American sport to squeeze an arm around the old Iron Curtain, but before the Soviet Union fell, it wouldn’t be the last. In the late 1980s, glasnost and perestroika delivered rock stars and blue jeans to the curious masses, as well as American football — played by hardscrabble groups…
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