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Symposium Seeks To Save Yiddish Dance
Most academic symposia don’t offer a steady supply of cold beer and hot pirogi. Fewer still offer the chance to see Michael Alpert, frontman for the progressive klezmer band Brave Old World, dancing on a chair. The first-ever Yiddish Dance Symposium had both. The bulk of the symposium, which was chaired by Alpert and by…
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Theater Company Reimagines Yiddish Stage
In 1946, a fictional memoir of a resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto appeared in a Yiddish newspaper in Argentina. Titled “Yosl Rakover Talks to God,” the piece described the destruction of Jewish Warsaw in such sensitive detail that it was translated into a multitude of languages, propelling its Lithuanian-born author, Zvi Kolitz, into the…
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Outcry Grows in Austria Over Massive Oil Deal With Iran
Berlin – A Nobel Prize-winning author and a Nazi-hunter were among the 3,000 signatories to a petition released last week, protesting a massive oil deal between an Austrian company and Iran. The $32 billion deal for oil rights, inked by the Vienna-based OMV oil company, appears to be the biggest ever with Iran. Since the…
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Israel Stuck Between a Rocket and a Hard Place
Jerusalem – The only thing separating Israel from an invasion of Gaza — a full-scale assault that its political leadership does not want to launch and its military commanders are reluctant to wage — is the notorious inaccuracy of the makeshift Qassam rocket. “If a Qassam falls on a kindergarten, a school or even a…
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Top Rabbi Calls for Leaders To Stay Out of Campaign Fight
As the leader of the country’s largest synagogue movement, the Union for Reform Judaism’s Rabbi Eric Yoffie normally tries to stay out of partisan politics. But in recent months, as presidential contender Barack Obama has been subjected to a wave of public criticism from segments of the Jewish community, Yoffie has found himself increasingly distressed…
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L.A.’s Latino Mayor Welcomed as One of the Tribe
Los Angeles – When Israel launches its 60th anniversary celebrations across America, the Los Angeles ceremony will be led not by one of this city’s many boldface-named Jews but by its Mexican-American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. The choice is unsurprising to those familiar with the 55-year-old politician, who enjoys an unusually strong connection to Jews and…
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Terror Victims Lobby Bush Over Lawsuits
Washington – Fearing a sudden change in American policy, Jewish victims of Palestinian terrorism are lobbying the Bush administration and Congress to ensure the enforcement of lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority that award them compensation. The intense lobbying effort comes amid signs of a shift in the position of the Bush administration, which so far…
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Peace Negotiator Who Advised Obama Campaign Strikes Back at Critics
Washington – One of the foreign-policy experts who has advised Barack Obama’s campaign on Middle East issues is striking out against critics who have used him to criticize the Illinois senator’s views on Israel. Robert Malley, a former special assistant to President Bill Clinton on Arab-Israeli affairs, told the Forward that the attacks on him…
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Jerusalem To Allow Secular Burials
Jerusalem – Lior Brand, a Tel Aviv businessman in his thirties, has some ideas about death — specifically, his own. “I don’t lead a religious life, and neither do my parents or my wife, but we like ceremony,” Brand said. “I want a ceremony that reflects the way I lead my life. I feel as…
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Hezbollah Threats Put Jews on Alert
Washington – Jewish communities worldwide went on heightened alert this week, following threats by Hezbollah to avenge the assassination last week of Imad Mugniyah, a longtime senior leader of the terrorist group. In the United States, the FBI sent out alerts to field offices and law enforcement agencies nationwide to increase awareness of the heightened…
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Imprisoned in India, But Not Forgotten in Canada
Toronto – The imprisonment of a Canadian Jewish businessman in India has become a surprising cause celebre for the leaders of Montreal’s Jewish community. The imprisoned man is Saul Itzhayek, who has both Canadian and Israeli citizenship. Itzhayek was convicted and sentenced to three years last May for entering India from Nepal with an expired…
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