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YouTube Restores Israeli Army Videos
Haifa — YouTube has restored four videos posted by the Israeli army that were removed on December 31 following complaints filed by users of the video-sharing site. On December 29, the Israel Defense Forces began posting videos of its aerial strikes. The rationale was that it wanted to support the claim that it is not…
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Un Ladino, Dos Ladino, Tres Ladino, Cuatru
A reader who prefers that his name not be published writes: “I am trying to learn how to count to ten in Ladino. I found a list of the written words, but with no pronunciation guide. Also, this written list appears to be inconsistent with some pronunciations that my young son came home with in…
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P.A. Denies Border Crossing to Injured Gazans
Tel Aviv, Israel — Wounded residents of Gaza have been refused urgent medical treatment because the Palestinian Authority will not transfer them to Israeli hospitals, the Forward has learned. When doctors at Shifa Hospital in Gaza found out that requests to move five seriously ill patients to Israel had been refused, they presumed that Israeli…
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Teen Lit Takes the Road Less Traveled
For someone who’s recently written a novel about teenage Orthodox Jewish lesbians — it could even be called the definitive novel, since there isn’t exactly a surplus of teen Orthodox lesbian fiction floating around — Leanne Lieberman isn’t really the ideal spokeswoman for the “Orthodyke” community. As a matter of fact, she’s neither Orthodox nor…
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Living Like a Lord
As the waters of the Sea of Galilee lapped at the foot of the back garden, I rocked gently in a hammock and pondered the possibilities. Should I stroll down to the beach, where the children played in the sand? Feed the carp in the fishpond, or curl up with a book in the Bedouin-style…
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YouTube Yanks Israeli Army Videos
Tel Aviv — YouTube has removed videos that the Israeli army posted as part of a public relations effort to rally world opinion behind its operation in Gaza. On December 29, the IDF began posting videos of its aerial strikes. The rationale was that it wanted to support the claim that it is not targeting…
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In Gaza Campaign, Israel Seeks To Change the Rules of the Game
Jerusalem — Israel’s retaliation against persistent Hamas mortar and rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel was far more ferocious than anyone, including Hamas, expected. The first three days of intensive Israel Air Force bombing in Gaza reduced hundreds of Hamas government buildings, military compounds, laboratories, metal workshops and supply tunnels to rubble and left…
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A Euphonic Union of Klezmer and Punk
Scattered about T.T. the Bear’s, a hole-in-the-wall club in Cambridge, Mass., were plastic dreidels, bags of chocolate gelt and jelly-filled donuts from Dunkin’ Donuts. It was a feeble attempt to play up the show’s Hanukkah theme, and as demonstrated by a performance by the band Golem that had the audience dancing a dervish-like hora, it…
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On the Fourth Night, Tunes, Jokes and Shoe-Throwing
How better to celebrate the fourth night of Hanukkah than by throwing a shoe at Bernard Madoff? On December 24, nightlife impresario Michael Dorf, who gave the world the Knitting Factory, opened his new space, City Winery, with a variety show that served as the fourth evening of New York’s fourth annual Sephardic Music Festival….
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Rabbi Arnold Wolf, 84, Was Progressive Leader
Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a prominent Chicago spiritual leader and rabbi emeritus of the Reform synagogue situated across the street from President-elect Barack Obama’s house, has died, apparently of a heart attack. He was 84. A longtime champion of peace and progressive politics, Wolf participated in civil rights marches in Selma, Ala., and protested the…
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A Hanukkah Remembrance
CHARLIE ROSE DIALOGUES WITH DAN GILLERMAN, LALLY WEYMOUTH AND MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN AT AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE AWARD DINNER Between sobering reality checks, Dan Gillerman’s wry sense of humor delighted the crowd at the December 1 America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Award Dinner, held at the Plaza Hotel. Gillerman, who is Israel’s former permanent representative to…
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