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Gelt Complex: ‘Exodus’ Re-enacted, Refugee Issue Raised, ADL: No Further Action
‘Exodus’ Re-enacted As part of Israel’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of its independence, a chartered ship re-enacted the voyage of the infamous refugee ship “Exodus,” carrying 300 passengers to Haifa from Cyprus last week, including passengers who sailed on the original ship. The original “Exodus” sailed from Marseilles, France, in 1947, with more than…
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Stars on the Bimah
Mazel Tov: Celebrities’ Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories By Jill Rappaport Photographs by Linda Solomon Simon & Schuster, 176 pages, $25. Most American Jews have at least one good bar mitzvah story to tell… even celebrities. Actor Harvey Fierstein’s drama queen grandmother faked a heart attack during his ceremony (he kept on singing the Hebrew…
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The Big Apple
The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York By Joseph Berger Ballantine Books, 288 pages, $25.95. Joseph Berger’s new book, “The World in a City,” will make you hungry. In any case, it made me hungry. The book can be summed up neatly by its subtitle: “Traveling…
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Museum Explores the Jewish Experience
The Museum of the City of New York presents a series of events in conjunction with the exhibition The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community. Ruth Westheimer will discuss the Bintel Brief, the Forward’s recently revived advice column, with Forward Web editor Daniel Treiman; Broadway producer Stewart Lane, New Yorker film critic David Denby,…
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Oaks or Terebinths?
Forward reader Bill Morris writes: “While perusing last week’s Torah reading in my ‘Etz Hayim’ (Jewish Publication Society, 1985) translation, I was struck by the phrase in its opening verse (Genesis 18:1) about God appearing to Abraham by ‘the terebinths of Mamre.’ Although the word ‘terebinth’ doesn’t flow easily off the tongue, it is mellifluous…
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Embattled Aipac Duo Wins Right To Subpoena Rice, Wolfowitz
Washington — The government’s prosecution of two former pro-Israel lobbyists was dealt a major setback Friday when a federal judge authorized subpoenas for senior government officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz. The subpoenas are a major victory for defendants Steve Rosen, former policy director for the…
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Who’s Striking: Nora Ephron
The Writers Guild picket line moves to Silver Cup Studios in Long Island City tomorrow, and none other than Nora Ephron is “supposed to” attend, according to Sherry Goldberg of Writers Guild of America East. Given that late-night writers turned out in droves to Rockefeller Center today, can we also expect appearances from some of…
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Writers On Strike, With An Assist from Obama
Forgive us if we in the Forward newsroom are paying a little bit of extra attention to the Writers Guild strike. We’re union members ourselves, and the whole brouhaha has our favorite celebrities going all lefty on us: SNL’s Tina Fey and Seth Myers are uptown picketing at Rockefeller Center; Jon Stewart may or may…
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Alzheimer’s Association’s Glitzy Gala
NOTEWORTHY WOMEN HONORED AT RITA HAYWORTH ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION GALA On October 10, the Alzheimer Association’s annual “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered” Rita Hayworth Gala was held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan launched the gala 24 years ago in memory of her mother, Hayworth, who showed symptoms of the disease while in her 50s. Considered…
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Condi, Hadley, Wolfowitz and Feith Will Take the Stand at Aipac Trial
The judge in the Aipac trial just ruled that defendants Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman can subpoena 15 government officials to testify in their trial, scheduled for early next year. The list of subpoenas assures that the trial will be the best show in town, with Condoleezza Rice, Steve Hadley, Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith…
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New ADL Survey on American Antisemitism
A new poll put out by the Anti-Defamation League suggests that the level of “strong” antisemitic beliefs among Americans remain much lower than the levels seen in the organiza-tion’s European polls. The poll, conducted during October, indicates that 15% of Americans believe Jews have “too much power in the U.S.” The ADL is touting this…
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