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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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Facing Firestorm, Sarkozy Alters Proposal To Match French Students With Children Murdered in Shoah
Paris — Faced with a storm of opposition from politicians, teachers and France’s most famous Holocaust survivor, President Nicolas Sarkozy backtracked this week from his proposal to have each child graduating primary school entrusted with the memory of one of the 11,000 French children murdered in the Holocaust. France’s education minister, Xavier Darcos, announced Monday…
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A Jewish Cinema Gem
ADVERTISING GIANT PUBLICIS GROUPE CEO MAURICE LEVY HONORED BY ADL “In France, Maurice Lévy is counselor of kings. Not a single acquisition or merger takes place without asking [Maurice] ‘Qu’est-ce que tu pense?’ — what do you think?” said cosmetics giant L’Oreal chairman Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, a past Anti-Defamation League honoree. Lévy, Publicis Groupe’s chairman…
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‘Fiddler’ Without Borders
In this week’s Forward, Ben Frumin reported from New Delhi on a new production of the classic musical “Fiddler on the Roof” — in Hindi. Most of the cast members had never met a Jew before. Some turned to the Internet to learn about Jewish history, the importance of the Sabbath, kosher meat and the…
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Chief Rabbis Repeat Promise To End Slaughter Method
After an article in the Forward detailed a controversial kosher slaughtering method, the Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has repeated an earlier promise to do away with it. A spokesman for the Chief Rabbinate told The Jerusalem Post this week that “we are doing everything to improve” the process known as “shackle and hoist” — a practice…
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Books Songbook Recaptures Lost Melodies
Heard any good Yiddish folksongs lately? Chances are good that the answer is “no.” Not because there aren’t any good Yiddish folksongs to be heard; for generations, the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe sang innumerable songs about love and loss, death and marriage. They sang to their children to soothe them to sleep, and they…
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Yiddishists: The Next Generation Takes the Reins
It’s been more than three quarters of a century since young intellectuals were voicing their Yiddish-inflected ideas in the parks, cafés and tenements of lower Manhattan. But the days of the Yiddish intelligentsia are still rolling for 24-year-old Menachem Yankl Ejdelman, who is the newly appointed leader of Yugntruf, a worldwide organization of young Yiddish…
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Books The Water Carrier
Renowned scholar David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind chair in Yiddish literature and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The following excerpt is from his forthcoming memoir, “Yiddishlands” (Wayne State University Press). In the work, Roskies discusses his life and the life of his mother, and explores the Yiddish experience and historical…
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Yiddish Comes to the Non-Hasidic Orthodox Classroom
In a brightly lit classroom, decorated with colorful posters and Hebrew lettering, the 24 second grade schoolgirls, dressed in crisp blue uniforms, listened as the young, modestly attired teacher reviewed the Genesis chapter in which God commands Abraham to leave his homeland. “Vayomer — who knows the meaning of the word vayomer?” the teacher asked…
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