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Rep. Chris Shays Calls Us from Israel
Rep. Christopher Shays and three of his colleagues checked in with the Forward mid-way through a three-day trip to Israel. Shays, the vice-chairman of House Government Reform Committee, also heads its subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations. He described the visit to Israel as an effort to “lend our support to Israel,…
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Hezbollah Card Played in Nukes Fight
WASHINGTON — Israel and its American allies are devising a diplomatic campaign that will use the recent conflict in Lebanon to bolster international efforts to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The United Nations Security Council has warned Iran to cease its uranium enrichment program by August 31 or face international sanctions. With the deadline…
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Katyusha Quandary
As a boy, I went for several years to a strongly Zionist, Hebrew-speaking summer camp. This was in the late 1940s and early ’50s, and our camp was designed to be a little microcosm of the new State of Israel. Among our nighttime activities was sitting around a campfire, Israeli-style, singing Hebrew songs — the…
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Arizona Pol Triggers Flap By Praising Henry Ford
A flap has erupted in Arizona over a Scottsdale congressman’s recent book slamming illegal immigration, in which he praised thoughts by automaker Henry Ford on “Americanization” that are regarded by historians as anti-Jewish. In his new book, “Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror,” Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth espoused Ford’s…
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Longtime Lieberman Aide Has Joe Punching Back in Connecticut Race
If Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman pulls out a win in November’s general election, the turning point of his campaign may well have been July 31 — the day Dan Gerstein showed up to volunteer in Hartford. In the days before Lieberman lost in the Democratic primary last week, Gerstein, age 39, emerged as one of…
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Workers at Kosher Plant Urged To Steer Clear of Union ‘Devils’
Already facing scrutiny over its treatment of workers, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of distributing a leaflet that warns its employees against the return of “union devils,” and of telling workers not to get “tricked into signing a card for the Union.” The pamphlet, which came with a Spanish translation, was handed…
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Israelis Angry Over Neglected Homefront
TEL AVIV — Israelis are debating the outcome of the war against Hezbollah, but they agree on at least one point: Their government neglected civilians during most of the 34-day conflict with Hezbollah. As nearly 4,000 rockets rained down on northern Israel, many residents fled to the south. Those who couldn’t — including the poor,…
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Lobby’s Calls for Donations Debated
One email appeal asked for donations to send care packages with toothpaste and deodorant to Israeli soldiers fighting in Lebanon. Another, from New York’s largest Jewish charity, spoke of urgently needed aid to provide trauma counseling for Israelis deluged by daily rocket attacks. Still another, a direct entreaty from a community group in the northern…
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From a Home in Southern Ohio, Genealogist Helps Lead Growing Movement
Sitting in his computer nook in Springfield, Ohio, far from the cultural power centers of New York and Los Angeles, Dan Kazez has been at the forefront of the fast-growing Jewish genealogy movement. From there, over the past two years, Kazez has orchestrated the growth of a Web site that provides Jewish genealogists with hundreds…
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Fathers and Sons
Uri Grossman, the 20-year-old son of Israeli novelist David Grossman, died on Saturday after a missile hit his tank in southern Lebanon. Imagine, if you can, that Uri Grossman had been a character in his father’s fiction. He may or may not have had a long and happy life. After all, many of the characters…
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Teens Attend Inaugural JCC Arts Fest
After nearly 25 years of running the JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style series of athletic competitions that attracts 6,000 Jewish teens from all over the world each year, the powers that be at JCC Association realized that a significant group of young people was being neglected. And so the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest was born. ArtsFest,…
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