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Playing the Shofar: An Ancient Sound Finds a New Voice
Of all the commandments in the Torah, the blowing of the shofar on the Jewish New Year is one of the most important. The ancient sound — signaling the beginning of the days of repentance — is heard on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur, and has been used as a rallying…
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Holiday Spirit: A Political Perspective
My 6-year-old is officially obsessed with this election. She keeps exclaiming about how significant it was to have both a black man and a woman as serious candidates for highest office. (“I love history,” she breathed to me this morning. Please remind me of this when she’s in 10th grade, nodding out as a teacher…
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U.N. President To Dine With Ahmadinejad
The president of the United Nations General Assembly is expected to attend a dinner in New York organized by five American Christian organizations at which Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will be a featured guest. The G.A. president, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, is a Catholic priest from Nicaragua who is a vocal critic of the United States….
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White House Blocks Congress on Iran
Washington — The Bush White House is sending a mixed message regarding sanctions on Iran — pushing for international measures on the one hand, while on the other, promising to block congressional attempts to impose sanctions. The issue re-emerged on September 9, when the administration sent a letter to Congress threatening to veto the National…
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Yid.Dish: Chili Peppers on Rosh Hashanah
Breathe in. Then breathe out. It’s an easy way to become aware of your body, more focused on the mundane. And if you breathe in and breathe out after eating a habenero-laced dish, you’re probably aware of every cell in your mouth, and focused on every nook and cranny of your sinuses. I first learned…
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Court Quashes Seattle Ballot Initiative on Israel Divestment
Los Angeles — Activists pushing for investors to pull their money out of Israel were dealt a significant blow in recent days when a Washington state judge struck down a proposed ballot initiative that could have made Seattle the first major American city to adopt a divestment policy. On September 10, Washington Superior Court Judge…
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Songwriters Hall of Fame Honors Composer
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME HONORS COMPOSER ALAN MENKEN — FROM “A BINTEL BRIEF” TO OSCAR WINNER FOR “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” AND MORE So how did singer and songwriter-composer Alan Menken go from writing the music and lyrics for the 1960s musical “Dear Worthy Editor” (based on the Forverts’s A Bintel Brief column) to penning…
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Conservative Movement Finds Unity in Promoting New Hekhsher Guidelines
Two years after a bruising debate on sexuality that left some wondering if the Conservative movement was irreparably divided, an initiative to link kosher food regulations with labor and environmental standards seems to have reunited the movement’s rabbinate. A number of rabbis have agreed to devote at least part of their High Holy Day sermons…
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Primaries Uphold Minnesota’s Jewish Tradition
Louis Park, Minn. — The last time that a non-Jewish lawmaker was elected to the Senate seat currently held by Republican Norm Coleman the president of the United States was Jimmy Carter. Despite a Jewish population estimated at less than 1% of the state’s total — and a history of intolerance that, in 1946, led…
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Broad-Based Coalition Seeks To Prevent a Nuclear Iran
In an effort to raise public awareness about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a new organization is being launched, with its own paid staff, to focus solely on the issue. The promoters of the group, which is called United Against Nuclear Iran, hope to replicate the Save Darfur Coalition, which has brought together liberals and hawks as…
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British Day Schools: More Students, Fewer Pounds
London — As the school year begins, new research out of Britain is shedding light on the resurgent effort to create successful Jewish schools. On the one hand, a study that was released this summer by a Jewish organization suggests that British schools are in the midst of a decade-long expansion, with 8% growth since…
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