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Abraham Klausner, Shoah Survivors’ Advocate
Rabbi Abraham Klausner, the first Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Army to enter the Dachau concentration camp after its liberation, died June 28 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 92. He died several years after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Judith, told The Associated Press. Klausner had been a leading…
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Military Denies Army Chaplain’s Burial Request
Washington – One the most famous Jewish Army chaplains was laid to rest in New Mexico last week after the Army denied his request to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The disagreement over the burial of Rabbi Abraham Klausner was the final clash with military authorities for a rabbi who always believed that army…
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Moshe Decter, 85, Activist for Soviet Jewry
Moshe Decter, an activist and writer who was instrumental in raising world awareness about the plight of Soviet Jewry in the 1960s, died July 5 of congestive heart failure. He was 85. Decter was one of the first to begin writing publicly about the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. With funding from a…
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Franken to Coleman: Not A Love Letter
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Musical Kids Step Onstage
Perhaps someday, we’ll look back on the moment when Anabel Hirano hefted her trombone and began her Jewish Community Youth Orchestra audition as the start of something big. Hirano, 16, might be headed for stardom and so might the JCYO, which organizers believe could be the first of its kind in the nation — an…
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The C-Word
‘I have cancer,” Jonathan said. Thyroid cancer. A nodule the size of an egg. Jonathan’s primary-care doc found it during a regular checkup. Neither of us could believe we’d never noticed it; now we could clearly see it pressing on his throat when he swallowed. He got hoarse easily, and felt pressure in his neck…
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Yid.Dish: Summer Time, and the Coffee is Chilly
The summer season is marked in a special way here in New York. I’m not talking about blooming trees or free concerts in the park (although both of these things are pretty great). Summer in New York officially arrives when everyone starts drinking iced coffee. It’s especially visible on my daily commute. For most of…
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Diaspora Museum Honors Sharansky
NATAN SHARANSKY HONORED BY WORLD’S ONLY MUSEUM OF JEWISH DIASPORA “I was a totally assimilated Jew… didn’t know [where] Jerusalem was,” admitted Natan Sharansky, former member of Israel’s Knesset. Sharansky was the honoree at the May 11 American Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish Diaspora gala, held at New York’s Hotel St. Regis….
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Joe Lieberman takes on George Soros
Independent Senator Joe Lieberman is taking aim at one of the big money people of his former party. In an interview with NewsMax Lieberman lashed out at Jewish billionaire George Soros who poured $18 million to liberal groups in the Democratic party in the ‘04 elections and now supports Barack Obama. “The places he’s put…
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Rapprochement With Libya Falters As New Sanctions Are Contemplated
Washington – A year after the White House dropped all sanctions against Libya, relations with the African nation are once again becoming a sore subject, with Congress and Jewish groups both calling for new punitive measures against the government of Muammar el-Qaddafi. Last week, the Senate approved a measure that cut all funding for the…
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Real Estate Titans Split in Messy Divorce
The relationship seemed so promising under the warm glow of the Caribbean sun. Five years ago, Shaya Boymelgreen, an Orthodox real estate developer in Brooklyn, and Lev Leviev, the wealthiest man in Israel, seemed like a match made in heaven. After a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi introduced them during a kosher cruise, the two created a joint…
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