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Buenos Aires — A Travel Bargain With Star Quality
With its Paris-inspired architecture, visiting Argentina has been like traveling to Europe, but wholesale, and who doesn’t love a bargain. Since the 2001 collapse of Argentina’s peso, once equal to the dollar, it’s been a cheap alternative to Euro-land. In this recession, bargains are even more welcome. Of course, Buenos Aires has also long been…
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Budget Shortfalls Inspire Creative Approaches at Day Schools
Rabbi Samuel Levine has a problem — and it’s echoing throughout the Jewish day school world. Levine, the head of school at Hillel Day School in Boca Raton, Fla., has seen an increase of more than 20 percent in requests for financial aid from the past year. In 2008-09, the school gave out about $1…
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At Touro, Loeb Honors Ideals
AMBASSADOR JOHN LOEB’S GIFT TO AMERICA AND AMERICA’S JEWISH COMMUNITY On August 24, I finally caught up with Ambassador John Loeb Jr. (who spent the summer in Rhode Island) to chat about the visitors center he built adjacent to Newport’s Touro Synagogue. Honored in July as the “2009 John Clarke Laureate” by the members of the…
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J Street Makes a Strategic Acquisition as Other Groups on the Left Struggle
The dovish Washington-based Israel lobby J Street is about to take over the Jewish community’s largest likeminded grassroots organization. The anticipated merger of Brit Tzedek V’Shalom with J Street will give the lobby its own national network of volunteers. It is the latest in series of seemingly strategic acquisitions through which J Street — which…
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Fake Shofars Blow No Good
NEWS ITEM: Some Israeli religious authorities are concerned about the recurrence of a problem that came to light last year: the sale of non-kosher shofars. It clearly states in Jewish law That shofars must be free of flaw. Yet thousands flood the market (true!) With imperfections masked by glue. (This means purveyors try to hide…
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Hidden in Olmert Indictment Are Charges That He Swindled U.S. Jews
The indictment against former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has riveted Israelis with its allegations that the ex-prime minister took envelopes of cash from supporters for his personal use. But another aspect of the August 30 indictment, one directly relevant to American Jews, has been all but lost amid the fallout: The Israeli leader, prosecutors…
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South African Jews Look for Support
When Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s new president, appeared before the country’s premier Jewish umbrella group in late August, the audience before him was concerned about the tack his government might be taking not just toward Israel, but also toward South African Jews who support it. Just two weeks before the August 29 meeting, the Palestinian…
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Birthright Alumni Center Tied to Haredi Outreach Group
Many of the young people who pass through the Jewish Enrichment Center in Lower Manhattan view it with great affection. It is often the first time they have come in contact with a Judaism that is engaging and accessible. The rabbis responsible for the center’s educational and religious programs are charismatic and approachable people who,…
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Ben-Gurion U. Debates Cost of Academic Freedom
An Israeli academic’s call for an international boycott of Israel has set off threats of donations being withheld from his university and sparked a fierce debate over academic freedom. In an August 20 Los Angeles Times opinion article, Neve Gordon, chairman of the politics and government department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, called Israel…
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Hey Grover, Can You Tell Me How To Get to Rechov Sumsum?
Many a riot has erupted on the first Friday of Ramadan, and as usual, Jerusalem’s Old City was on a knife-edge this year. But there, weaving through a crowd of police officers, was a familiar, furry blue Muppet with a pink nose and his young tour guide. To say that Grover looked incongruous would be…
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Fringe Group Pushes ‘Nazi’ Analogy
When Rep. Barney Frank was asked by a woman at a health care town hall meeting, “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?” the Massachusetts Democrat had a ready reply. “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” he shot back at the questioner, who was toting one of the now-infamous…
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