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White House Censorship Flap Triggers Feud Between Foreign Policy Hands
Washington – A controversy over the Bush administration’s censorship of an article on Iran has helped trigger a public spat between two leading Middle East scholars. Flynt Leverett, a former employee of the CIA and the National Security Council who is a harsh critic of President Bush’s foreign policy, has been accusing the White House…
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Leaders Meet New U.N. Chief
As Kofi Annan exits the scene, his successor, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, has been making his first set of public appearances and speeches. In addition, he has held private meetings with a variety of interlocutors, including Jewish groups. Jewish communal officials who recently have met Ban noted his underwhelming personality and his lack of…
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Students Flock To Aid North, but Did They?
Kiryat Shmona, Israel – In the months since last summer’s war in Lebanon, an eerie quiet has taken hold in the north of Israel. The wail of sirens warning of Katyusha rocket attacks has long since ceased, and the loud din of explosions no longer pierces the fresh air of the Galilee. Just beneath the…
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Journal Editor, 102, Devoted to Yiddish
Everyone active in the world of Yiddish culture has to have shoulders broad enough to carry the weight of history, but Itche Goldberg, who died December 27 at age 102, had the broadest shoulders of all. As editor of the journal Yiddishe Kultur, Goldberg found the energy, even in his 80s and 90s, to maintain…
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Eating Extravaganza
For the attendees of Kosherfest, the kosher food industry’s largest annual trade show-cum-feeding frenzy in New York, sampling from the hundreds of booths demands more than a healthy appetite; it requires strategy. With a sizable number of observant Jews among the 7,000 attendees at the recent convention — which marked Kosherfest’s 18th anniversary — the…
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Message in The Music
Even scientists need to get their groove on sometimes. So, after presenting a lecture titled “Fearful Brains in an Anxious World,” renowned neuroscientist and New York University professor Joseph LeDoux doffed his scholarly persona and strapped on a guitar. It was time for some Brain Rock. LeDoux’s band, The Amygdaloids, is named for the part…
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Her Vision
A photographer, journalist, activist and former American government official, Ruth Gruber has worn many hats. But regardless of the role she assumes, one factor never varies: Her humanitarian spirit inevitably informs everything she does. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Gruber recorded and participated in numerous significant events in Jewish history during the 20th century. She…
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Modernity Starts Here
“And Yisrael bowed down on the head of the bed.” Genesis 47:31 Jacob sits on his deathbed; his feet, one thinks, must be on the floor. He is speaking to his favorite son, Joseph, who sits nearby, perhaps at the foot of the bed. Despite the press of time, Joseph betrays no impatience. He…
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You Think Bush is Unpopular…
On his worst day, the president has a disapproval rating of about 60%. Prime Minister Olmert tops that by a bunch, with 77% of Israelis finding fault with his leadership. Only 1% would rank Olmert’s performance as “very good.”
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The Jeffersonian Koran
The executive committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council has already criticized Dennis Prager, a conservative pundit and council member, for arguing that a Muslim lawmaker should not take his congressional oath of office on a Koran. It turns out Prager’s argument isn’t making much headway at the Library of Congress. It turns out that…
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Why Blame the Zionists? (Saddam Didn’t)
The ADL has issued a report on attempts in the Arab media to portray Saddam Hussein’s execution as a Zionist plot. As for Hussein, in his last, defiant words, the deposed Iraqi dictator had nothing to say about the Zionists, the Jews, Israel, Aipac etc. Instead, he declared, “Down with the traitors, the Americans and…
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