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Raise a Glass To Kosher Wine
If you see a kosher cabernet on the shelf at your local wine shop, there’s a good chance it’s been sold to the store by Royal Wine Corp., the New Jersey-based wine producer, importer and distributor that owns Kedem and Baron Herzog wineries, represents dozens more from around the world and was a pioneer in…
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Young Yiddishists Kvell At Retreat
“‘How does the cat get away from the snake?’ means ‘How the heck am I going to do this?’” Menachem Ejdelman told a crowd of rapt college students who were strewn on beat-up couches in a dormitory lounge. That phrase, first pronounced by Ejdelman in its original Yiddish, was among a handful that the 23-year-old…
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David Yassky: Good for the Environment
The New York Observer’s Azi Paybara has a great story about the Brooklyn councilman, who like Al Gore has focused on the environment after losing a high-profile race (in his case, for Congress).
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Fund Pays Heirs of Wrong ‘Hans Leipziger’
A few years ago, the family of a European Jew named Hans Leipziger was given a check for 150,000 Swiss francs to compensate for a bank account that Leipziger held before the Nazis came to power. It was a nice ending to an old story, except for one problem: The check appears to have gone…
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‘Israel Lobby’ Prof. Hawks Tome in Appearance at Jewish Bookfest
Jews may be the People of the Book, but this book? That was a question on some minds when Stephen Walt, co-author of a controversial paper criticizing the role of the “Israel Lobby” in American foreign policy, made a presentation at this year’s 9th Annual Jewish Book Network conference. The event, which is run by…
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North Carolina Boarding School Seeks To Bridge Religious Divides
Greensboro, N.C. – On a recent Friday evening at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, N.C., Jewish teenagers and their teachers were attending not one but two separate Sabbath eve services. At a student-led Orthodox minyan held in a dormitory common room, plastic chairs were arranged in neat rows and divided into sections for men…
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Jewish Quarter Booms — Without Jews
Every few steps along the narrow, winding Al-Amin Street in the heart of the Jewish quarter of Damascus’s old city, a young Yasser Arafat smiles at the rare pedestrian walking by. The posters of the late Palestinian leader, plastered on the grayish street walls, serve as a pointed reminder that Jewish life in Damascus is…
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Ousted, Peretz Could Emerge Kingmaker
Jerusalem – No matter who wins the upcoming runoff between Ehud Barak and Ami Ayalon, this much is clear: Defense Minister Amir Peretz is out as Labor Party chairman — and the leader of Israel’s venerable social democratic movement will once again be an Ashkenazic general. Peretz finished third Monday in the first round of…
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Blogger Opens Iranian-Israeli Dialogue Online
Toronto – As Tehran and Jerusalem exchange threats on a regular basis, a former Iranian journalist who is credited with having popularized Internet “blogging” in the Islamic republic is waging a campaign to defuse the tensions. Hossein Derakhshan, a 32-year-old Iranian expatriate living in Toronto, files daily blog posts in his native Farsi and in…
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British Professors Approve Israel Boycott
Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to pass a motion imploring its branches to circulate and discuss a…
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Pols Press Resolution Hailing Unified Jerusalem
Washington – With backing of pro-Israel activists on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are pushing to pass a resolution hailing Israel’s control over all of Jerusalem. The resolution, which makes no mention of East Jerusalem being a possible capital of a future Palestinian state, drew criticism from dovish Jewish activists who argued that it does not reflect…
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