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Netanyahu Tasked With Forming Next Government, Will Meet Sunday With Livni
Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday accepted a mandate to form Israel’s next government, the Likud Chairman arranged to meet Kadima leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday for coalition talks. Livni told Netanyahu by phone that he was well aware of her position and there was nothing preventing them from meeting. Both rivals had laid claim…
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To Sue or Not? Palestinians Face Dilemma After Report On Settlements
On paper, it has never been easier for Palestinians whose land has been appropriated by Israeli settlements to have their day in court. Classified government data on settlements, made public in late January, documents for the first time precisely where settlements and parts of settlements have been built in violation of Israel’s own laws. The…
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Jewish Leaders Largely Silent on Lieberman’s Role In Government
Several days before Israelis went to the polls, as it became clear that Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party was emerging as the nation’s third largest, Harvard University mathematician Dennis Gaitsgory called his friend Josh Tenenbaum, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and told him he could not sleep at night. The thought of…
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Hebrew College’s Big Plans Yield Big Debts
Outside the office of Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, president of Hebrew College, is a model of the original design for the college’s Newton, Mass., campus, created by star architect Moshe Safdie. Only half the campus has been built. Asked if the school plans to build the other half, Lehmann chuckled. “Yeah, right,” he responded. Safdie’s model…
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The First Lady of Fashion’s Quiet Muse
An Israeli-born boutique owner known for putting together edgy outfits in unexpected ways is quietly dressing one of the most famous women in the world, first lady Michelle Obama. Ikram Goldman, 41, proprietor of the multi-vendor designer boutique Ikram (pronounced Ee-krom), on Chicago’s Gold Coast, is the eminence grise of the first lady’s fashion cred,…
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Food Fight: Brooklyn Co-op Mulls Israel Ban
Located in the heart of Brooklyn, near Prospect Park, the Park Slope Food Coop is at the nexus of the borough’s many diverse Jewish populations. From the liberal Jews of Park Slope to the Hasidic Jews of Crown Heights, the coop is one of the few places in Brooklyn where Jews of all denominations converge…
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Board Fight, Staff Cuts at Yiddish Center
A few weeks ago, the Jewish institute and archive known as YIVO hosted a public discussion about the financial downturn and the alleged misdeeds of Bernard Madoff. Now, YIVO is dealing with financial problems of its own. Following other Jewish organizations that have made cutbacks, YIVO this month fired five staff members. Among those laid…
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N.J. School May Get Hebrew Track
A school district in New Jersey may become the first in the nation to create a Hebrew-language immersion track in a public school — and to supplement it with voluntary after-school religious classes paid for by parents in space rented from the district. Proposed by Richard Segall, interim superintendent of schools in Englewood, N.J., the…
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Book Collector Sells the Fruits of a Lifelong ‘Lunacy’ for Jewish Texts
Although the world’s foremost collector of rare Jewish books has traveled the globe seeking books printed in the Far East, the Ottoman Empire and throughout Europe, his greatest collecting triumph took place virtually at his front door. Jack Lunzer, 84, a producer of industrial diamonds from Africa, spent six decades assembling the Valmadonna Trust Library,…
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Facing The Flood
I’ve been thinking a lot about resilience lately. When faced with adversity and horror, why do some people crumple like used tin foil while others manage to cope? The story of Noah and the Ark is an interesting window into the notion of resilience. Maxine, age 4, is obsessed with a book by Lucy Cousins,…
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