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Remembering the Top of the Pops
‘Tonight we celebrate the keyboard and the life of a man who didn’t just play it — he inhabited it,” said composer, conductor, pianist and emcee-tummler Marvin Hamlisch at the 23rd New York Pops Birthday Gala, 88 Keys for Skitch, held May 8 at Carnegie Hall. (Skitch Henderson, founder and musical director of the Pops,…
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Stepping Into American Life
Been to a Jewish wedding of late? If you, like me, have had the good fortune to attend one recently, surely you’ll agree that one of its most striking features is the range of sounds emanating from the bandstand, from the upbeat strains of klezmer and Israeli music to the rhythms of Motown, the twang…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 9, 2006
Eleanor Gordon Mlotek and Joseph Mlotek were compilers of a series of books published by the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring. One of these compendia is titled “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry,” the same title of a regular column in the Forverts. The following poem by Abraham Reisen is taken from the Mlotek compendium. The English version is…
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As Islamists Grow Confident, It’s Time for the West To Stand Firm
I recently returned from a trip to Europe, where I observed a troubling analytical failure: the widespread refusal to consider Hamas’s January electoral victory beyond the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In reality, Hamas’s rise to power has global ramifications. It opens a new front for radical Islamism in its confrontation with the West and…
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Bush Overture To Iran Splits Israel, Neocons
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s offer to open direct talks with Iran and reward Tehran if it stops enriching uranium is exposing a policy rift between neoconservatives on one hand, and the Israeli government and Jewish organizations on the other. Neoconservative analysts are blasting the administration, saying that holding talks with the Islamic regime would…
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Showdown Over Divestment Resolution Set for Upcoming Presbyterian Parley
A group of Presbyterian activists is ramping up efforts to reverse their church’s policy advocating divestment from Israel, setting the stage for a showdown over the issue at next week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). When the more than 500 national delegates convene June 15-22 in Birmingham, Ala., for the 217th General Assembly,…
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Anger Over Schorsch Speech Fuels Questions About Seminary’s Role
As anger reverberates through Conservative Judaism in the wake of a downbeat farewell address last month by the retiring chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, concerns are mounting over a perceived leadership vacuum within the movement and the seminary’s ability to maintain its leadership position. The chancellor, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, addressing his final graduation ceremony…
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Non-Orthodox Press for Access to Israeli Mikvehs
JERUSALEM — The Israeli movements for Conservative and Reform Judaism are protesting disparaging statements made last week by the government minister in charge of religious affairs, Yitzhak Cohen of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, who dismissed non-Orthodox conversions as “virtual” and undeserving of ritual immersion in publicly funded ritual baths. Cohen told a reporter May 30…
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Religious Groups Push Kentucky Schools To Use ‘Before Christ’
In the wake of national debates about the teaching of evolution and sex education in the public schools, Christian conservatives in Kentucky are now mobilizing over the issue of calendar abbreviations. Activists, along with the governor and other state politicians, have accused the State Board of Education of attempting to drive Christianity from the classroom…
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Abbas Pressuring Hamas As Gaza Violence Erupts
JERUSALEM — Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic militant organization, found itself increasingly backed into a corner last week as support mounted on multiple fronts for Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, in his effort to win endorsement of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Abbas, who had been on the defensive after Hamas won Palestinian legislative…
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Death in Blast
One construction worker was killed and two others were critically injured in an explosion Tuesday night while they were attempting to install a mikveh in the basement of a Brooklyn home. The blast was strong enough to blow out a wall in the home, according to fire department officials. City officials reportedly said that the…
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