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St. Petersburg University Clashes With City Officials
Russia’s only graduate program dedicated to Jewish studies is caught in the crossfire between its parent university and St. Petersburg city officials, who closed the university last week over fire code violations. Critics say the closure was a politically motivated response to a university course in election monitoring. The European University at St. Petersburg, which…
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His Path: From Jewish Camp to the Oscars
Often, the biggest question at the Oscars besides “Who’s going to win?” is “Who is that?” followed by the thought: “Wonder what he’ll be doing next year.” Turns out, one of the men who stood with Al Gore to accept the 2007 Oscar for best documentary had already been the key creative force behind several…
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An Unlikely Love Story
It doesn’t seem like Mutsuyo the Japanese dancer and Norman the Jewish businessman have much in common at the start of Kyoko Yokoma’s documentary, “Dancing With Lives.” Yet there they are onscreen, getting married. In a few minutes time, their stories unfold and all becomes clear. Mutsuyo lost her entire family in 1995 in a…
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Obama, Farrakhan, Russert and Us
I confess, as a Jew, I was left squirming in my seat as I watched Tim Russert grill Barack Obama last night about what one TV commentator later casually referred to as “the Jewish issue.” How did Jews wind up being a campaign “issue”? In part, it’s Russert’s fault. The “Meet the Press” host and…
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Cartoons Counter Swastika Shock
Not everyone would look at Scotch Tape and think of snails, but Sam Gross did and came up with the most popular cartoon in his 50-year career. One snail looks at another and says, “I don’t care if she’s a tape dispenser. I love her.” It’s a high concept sight gag and it’s all in…
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Blind Rabbi Picks Up Steam in Race
Rabbi Dennis Shulman is gaining ground in his Democratic congressional bid to unseat Rep. Scott Garrett in northern New Jersey’s fifth congressional district. If elected, Shulman, a nationally known clinical psychologist who has been blind since adolescence, will become the only rabbi to serve in Congress. While Garrett, a conservative Republican first elected in 2003,…
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Costa Rica Opens Official Ties With ‘State of Palestine’
Seizing upon the Bush administration’s recent push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, the Palestinian Authority has been working to expand the number of countries that recognize Palestine as a country. The effort received a major boost when Costa Rica, one of the first countries to recognize Israel and, until recently, one of the very few…
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Franken Proves a Formidable Foe
If Republican Senator Norm Coleman fails to win his 2008 re-election bid in Minnesota, it seems increasingly likely it will go to another Jewish American: former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken. Franken, the humorist turned liberal pundit, could become the fourth Jewish politician in a row to occupy the Coleman Senate seat. Since 1979,…
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Adoptive Jewish Families Head Back to China
Rabbi Mark Sameth does a lot of traveling with his two Chinese-born adopted daughters in pursuit of the girls’ hybrid cultural heritage. On a recent trip to Washington from their home in Pleasantville, N.Y., they hunted down an ancient carved-stone washing bowl that once belonged to a Chinese synagogue. In New York City, they mined…
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U.S. Takes Aim at Shadowy Syrian Businessman
In a new approach to battling Syria, the Bush administration has imposed sanctions on a powerful businessman — and cousin of the country’s president — who is suspected of corruption. The U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Rami Makhlouf, a controversial figure with major interests in Syria’s economy. The move comes on the heels…
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