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U.N. Recognizes Human Rights Activist’s Work
Shulamith Koenig often quotes the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, insisting that if only one person was missing from the world, the absolute truth would be different. “This is what I do,” Koenig said. “I want to include every individual so everyone can understand human rights.” Last month Koenig, 73, became only the fifth American…
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Sounding the Alarm About Israel’s Demographic Crisis
When Arnon Soffer first issued his warning in the 1980s — that Arabs would outnumber Jews in Israel and the occupied territories by around 2010 — he was widely dismissed as a crackpot Jeremiah. Now the Israeli public and its leaders appear to have caught up with him. Soffer, head of the geography department at…
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A Small World Weds Saris and Yarmulkes At New Delhi’s Sole Synagogue
As soon as David Danieli, Israel’s new ambassador to India, arrived behind schedule at Judah Hyam Hall synagogue in New Delhi one recent Friday night, the congregants raised their arms toward the ark to welcome the Sabbath. “It’s good of him to come,” one woman said in a scratchy voice that would later dominate the…
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Frum Fiction: Observant Gumshoes Master ABCs of Murder
What makes a good mystery? Sex and death — but shul attendance and Sabbath observance don’t hurt either. That’s right: Orthodox Judaism has entered the world of detective fiction. There have been Jewish mysteries before, of course. Take Harry Kemelman’s haymish, if low-intensity, series of mystery novels featuring the Conservative Rabbi David Small, a 35-year…
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Music Gets Boost on Israeli TV
This revolution will be televised. Earlier this month, Music 24 became Israel’s first all-music television station, unleashing what CEO Guy Behar and Amir Golan, the station’s marketing director, called “a quiet revolution.” Airing 24 hours a day, with an archive of 1,500 video clips ranging from Middle Eastern music to rock and trance, the station…
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Day Schools Learn New Math During Economic Downturn (Correction)
An article in the August 8 issue, “Day Schools Learn New Math During Economic Downturn,” misstated the number of students enrolled at the Agnon School in Beachwood, Ohio. There were 330 students at the conclusion of the past school year. An article in the August 8 issue, “Looking to Forbears for Continuity?” incorrectly identified the…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Arnie the Styrian Oak: “Now he’s finally done it,” Christoph Winder writes in the August 8 issue of the liberal Austrian daily Der Standard. “Arnie, the honorable oak of Styria, Terminator and Austria’s undisputed symbol of expatriate success, overcame his scruples and on October 7 will be running for governor of California.” From Sacramento to…
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Muckraking Crusader Creeps Onto the Bestseller List
When investigative journalist Greg Palast published his account of voting irregularities that occurred in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, the state’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, denounced his findings as “twisted.” Palast put that quote on his book jacket. “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” (Plume) details how — through hopeless incompetence at best,…
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How Terry Sue Became Tovah
Trim and elegant in an ecru suit, Tovah Feldshuh mounted the Center for Jewish History’s auditorium stage for the July 14 American Jewish Historical Society-sponsored “dialogue” with Rabbi William Berkowitz. A veteran of more than 500 celebrity interviews over the past 51 years, the rabbi managed a few commentaries during “intermissions” in what evolved into…
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We Should All Be Proud
Yes, I am a Jew, but why am I not called a Hebrew? In Israel, they speak, write and read Hebrew. In the Bible, our forefathers were Hebrews. Why aren’t we called Hebrew-Americans? — A Hebrew at heart According to Rabbi Harlan Wechsler of Manhattan’s Congregation Or Zarua, though the Bible on occasion refers to…
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Traipsing Down the Red-Carpet Runway at ‘The Holy Land’ Gala
At the July 8 gala opening of “The Holy Land” at the Leonard Nimoy Theater at Symphony Space, the crush of photographers went flash ballistic as Danny Aiello emerged from his Jaguar and the film’s stars — Oren Rehany and Tchelet Semel — trod the red carpet. Subtitled “A Yeshiva Student, a Russian Prostitute, a…
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