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Defining Legitimacy
Edward J. Klein of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., writes: “I have heard two words claiming to be Yiddish which I understand are Polish. One is nigde, meaning never, as in ‘The Messiah will come on Shabbes nigde.’ The other is povatinye, meaning spiderweb. Are these legitimate Yiddish words?” Passing over the fact that povatinye is Ukrainian,…
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In a Stormy Year, Peretz Raises and Then Forfeits Left’s Hopes
Two soldiers wearing olive-drab ski masks against the autumn chill stood last weekend at a checkpoint on the road into Bir Nabalah, a West Bank village north of Jerusalem. Palestinian cars waited in line 100 yards away. One by one, they moved up to the checkpoint, where one of the Israeli soldiers glanced inside each…
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Flap in Illinois Over GOP Threat
A vulnerable Republican incumbent battling for re-election in suburban Chicago is facing criticism this week — including a call for a federal investigation — over an e-mail message in which an aide seemingly threatened to punish Tel Aviv University because one of its top American donors was backing the Democratic challenger. The incumbent, Rep. Mark…
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U.S. Set To Raise ’94 Attack
The Bush administration is planning to ratchet up pressure on Tehran at the United Nations by invoking the recent Argentine indictment of top Iranian leaders in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires. Several sources told the Forward that Washington intended to highlight Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism to convince reluctant…
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David Duke Offers ‘Antisemitism 101’ at a Ukrainian University
UMAN, Ukraine –Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke visited Ukraine’s largest university last week to give a stump speech on what he calls “radical Jewish extremists” — his phrase for the Israeli and American government. Duke has become a regular at the university, the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management, which is known by its Ukrainian…
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Antisemitic Incidents Raise Fears in Germany
BERLIN — A recent soccer match in the German capital turned into an orgy of rioting and antisemitism, as a spate of anti-Jewish incidents is fueling fears that neo-Nazis are gaining a strong foothold in German politics and society. Three hundred rioters attacked security guards at an October 27 match between the Berlin team Hertha…
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WJC Audit: $3 Million Unaccounted For
The dimensions of a recent financial scandal at the World Jewish Congress appear to be significantly broader than has been publicly known, judging from an unreleased audit that found about $3 million to have been withdrawn from the organization’s accounts with no documented explanation. The missing sum of 3.85 million Swiss francs is detailed in…
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The House: Dems Count on Jewish Candidates
As Democrats seek to pick up 15 seats to win control of the House of Representatives, they are counting on several of the dozen or so Jewish candidates fighting to replace Republican incumbents. According to polls, the most likely Democratic pick-up is in Arizona’s eighth district, where state lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords — great-granddaughter of a…
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The Senate: N.J. Incumbent Holds Slight Lead, Other Races Tight
As one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races — and the only one involving an endangered Democratic incumbent — comes down to the wire in the Garden State, recent polling shows Democratic Senator Bob Menendez with a slight lead over political scion and state lawmaker Tom Kean Jr. Democrats need to pick up…
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Scandal Could Derail New York Comptroller
Few New Yorkers expected Alan Hevesi — the state comptroller and one of the most influential Jewish elected officials in the country — to face an uphill battle for re-election this year, when Democrats like him are winning big in the Empire State. But scandal may take him down. A former all-city basketball player, 6-foot-3…
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Calif. Donor Sets Record
Stephen Bing is already known as a multimillionaire real estate heir, movie mogul, prominent playboy and perennial paparazzi prey. Now you can add “record-setting political donor” to the list. Bing, 41, of Los Angeles, has put a whopping $40 million into California’s Proposition 87, a measure on November’s ballot that would impose a tax on…
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