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How the Earthy Have Fallen
Diana Muir Appelbaum writes about the word am-ha’aretz, the “people of the land,” a biblical term commonly translated as “boor” or “ignoramus” when it occurs in Yiddish or in modern Hebrew: “How did the am-ha’aretz lose their stature? The group known by that name that emerges to put Josaiah on the throne in the Book…
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White House Keeping Tabs On Crisis
Several sources who are in close contact with the White House have told the Forward that senior officials expressed concern over the political uncertainty in Israel. The main questions being posed by Washington, according to the sources, are what power the Israeli street will have in determining the fate of the Olmert government and what…
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Dear Diary: Back in Time
In the early hours before sunrise on February 24, 1924, Harry Scheurman sat awake in his tenement apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He had returned earlier that night from a reunion ball for émigrés from his Eastern European hometown, and he took out his diary in the hope of preserving the excitement of the…
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Vaccine Nation
When my father was 7, he contracted polio. In a few days he lost all feeling in his legs. He was confined to bed for six months. His second grade teacher came to visit, bringing a record of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and a hardcover of “Alice in Wonderland.” (Thus began a love of great music…
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Israel Goes To the Mat For Peace
Gozali will compete in the under-87-kilogram division
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Your Duty as a Jew
‘It’s your duty as a Jew to stay here in Kiev.” Oh boy, thinks Tolya Epshtein, oh boy. So many Jews have left for Israel and America already, half the Jews he knows. And now his wife wants to join the outflow. So, Tolya came to the synagogue where Jews gather after services to gossip…
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Bush Appoints Orthodox Jew as Deputy Secretary of HHS
Yesterday saw the announcement that Tevi David Troy, an Orthodox Jew who currently serves as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, will be nominated as the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. Troy previously served as the White House Liaison to the Jewish community. The White House’s announcement was quickly answered…
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Fear of a Black Hat
A New York Times editorial urging enhanced congressional campaign-donation disclosure rules begins by stating that “Congress is still haunted by the black hat and easy-money grin of Jack Abramoff…” It’s worth noting that the Forward cracked the mysteryof this black hat that is, apparently, still haunting Capitol Hill way back in January 2006: It’s a…
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Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman: Raising $25K for Obama
While the chattering class continues to ask whether Obama is truly pro-Israel, two renowned Jewish writers are busy raising money for him. Ayelet Waldman and husband Michael Chabon – whose latest novel, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” reimagines Alaska as the homeland of the Jewish people – have recently gone public with their love for Senator…
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Dem Donors Torn Between Loyalty And Electability
Washington – The afternoon before Bernard Rapoport was scheduled to introduce Senator Hillary Clinton to an audience of well-heeled Jewish activists and donors, he turned his attention to her most imposing 2008 rival and had a backroom chuckle at her expense. Rapoport — a former insurance executive from Waco, Texas, who at nearly 90 years…
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Push To Repeal Cold War Measure Splits Chabad
American policy toward the increasingly authoritarian regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignited a fierce quarrel inside one of the fastest-growing and most influential movements in Judaism, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Chabad officials in Russia and the United States have recently staked out opposing positions on a decades-old American law, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which restricted U.S.-Soviet…
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