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Chai Designs For Less
Many of us grew up in homes where there was little or no Jewish art. It seemed kitschy, or people were simply not ready to go wall-to-wall Chagall. Today, however, we are looking with fresh eyes at Jewish art and, when the price is right, schlepping some of it home. But many Jews, especially younger…
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A Lonely Jew at Catholic School
‘Let us pray” often opens funerals and weddings, but budget meetings? When you work at a Catholic college, you come to expect getting blessed without sneezing and praying before committee meetings. The first time I heard prayer at work was at a staff meeting at the Catholic college library where I had just been hired….
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Poland’s Radio Maryja Known For Its Bigotry, and Its Influence
Radio Maryja is a source of embarrassment to many Poles, but the diatribes from this radio station, intermingled with lengthy prayer sessions, are heard by millions of listeners each day. Its programs exploit listeners’ fears that Poland’s new capitalist democracy undermines their traditional Catholic way of life. Jews and Masons are viewed as threatening outside…
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Tramp Art and Jewish History
AMERICAN SAMPLERS, TRAMP ART AND A BIT OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT HISTORY AT AMERICAN ANTIQUE SHOW In keeping with the Texas theme of the January 20 opening-night preview of the American Antique Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion, the party’s grand chairman was Lynda Johnson Robb, daughter of former president Lyndon B. Johnson. Also in the photographers’…
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All-Seeing Airport Security Devices Threaten Jewish Modesty
NEWS ITEM: Observant Jews are concerned over the expanding use of whole-body imaging machines for airport security. The scene the airport screener saw Did violence to Jewish law! His body-imaging machine Displayed a sight that was obscene, A true affront, a crudity, A fully frontal nudity! Before a traveler’s plane departs, He/she now shows their…
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Israel, Hamas Respond Differently to Goldstone
Meeting a deadline of February 5 set by the United Nations, Israel and Hamas have offered their responses to what has become known as the Goldstone Report, the controversial 547-page investigation of the Gaza incursion in 2008-09 that accused both combatants of war crimes. The two sides, not surprisingly, emerged with vastly different interpretations of…
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Embattled New Israel Fund Fights Back
Under attack as a subversive, anti-Israel group, the New Israel Fund, the largest financial supporter of human rights groups in Israel, has opted to respond by rallying supporters of a progressive agenda in Israel. Adopting a notably combative tone under new leadership, the American- based charity is depicting an accusatory report by a new Israeli…
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Polish City Displays Two Faces to Its Few Jews
A crucifix hangs on the back wall of the classroom at the Franciscan school. Beneath it stands a menorah — an unusual sight in devoutly Catholic Poland. The Higher School of Hebrew Philology, located in Torun, Poland, is a new three-year private college that opened last October. It’s making history, offering a program of study…
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Congressional Letter To End Gaza Blockade Splits Activists
A congressional letter calling on the United States to press for the lifting of the blockades imposed by Israel and Egypt on Gaza has sparked controversy within the Jewish community. Jewish groups from the left have actively supported the initiative, led by Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Jim McDermott of Washington. But other…
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Jewish in Tel Aviv, Gentile in Ashkelon
In Tel Aviv, where she works, Alina Serjukov is Jewish. In Ashkelon, where she lives, she’s considered a gentile. Alina discovered her strange predicament in the run-up to her January 14 wedding, when she and her husband attempted to register their upcoming marriage with the local rabbinate. But the official rabbi in Ashkelon refused to…
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Evangelist for Silence Promotes a Quiet Gift
At the border of Crown Heights and Brownsville, in an impoverished corner of Brooklyn, stands the hulking, tan brick building that houses P.S. 191, the Paul Robeson School. The school serves a student population that is remarkable in its disadvantage: 99% of its roughly 300 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade qualify for free or…
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