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At Auschwitz, Ire at What Pope Didn’t Say
Pope Benedict XVI’s failure to issue a clear denunciation of antisemitism in his speech Sunday at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex has unleashed a wave of discontent among the Vatican’s main Jewish interlocutors and in liberal Catholic circles. The speech initially was seen as an opportunity for Benedict to signal his determination to carry on his predecessor’s…
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Giving Children at Risk a Future
‘Three hundred thousand young people are seriously at risk in Israel and likely to become part of a criminal underclass unless something is done,” ELEM/America’s president, Ann Bialkin, cautioned at the organization’s May 10 ELEM — Youth in Distress in Israel benefit. “Each year, 23,000 juveniles are referred to the service and account for 45,000…
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As Rabbinate Stiffens Rules, Orthodox Rites Face Scrutiny
The young American Orthodox Jew, about to marry in Israel, was asked to appear before a state rabbinic court that checks whether applicants are indeed Jewish. The immigrant, it turned out, was the child of a woman converted to Judaism by three prominent Orthodox rabbis in a major American community. The court checked with the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 2, 2006
Joan Braman returns to the Vinkl with another translation of an English classic into Yiddish. This time, the poet is John Keats. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From…
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Risky Gambit by Abbas Raises American Hopes, Israeli Worries
If the investigation of American soldiers accused of killing more than a dozen civilians in cold blood in Haditha, Iraq, proves their guilt, the episode will turn out to be the ugliest documented case of the behavior of the American military since the Iraq war began. For many Americans, the historical comparison may be Vietnam’s…
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Liberal Professor Takes On Conservative Firebrand in Federal Lawsuit
OAKLAND, Calif. — An Israel critic’s lawsuit against a neoconservative provocateur seems poised to become a battle over free speech, though exactly whose speech is being curtailed depends on whom you ask. Joel Beinin, who is a Stanford University history professor and a former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, filed…
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Rep Set To Resolve Aipac Spat
The feud between a member of the House Committee on International Relations, Betty McCollum, and the Jewish community’s main pro-Israel lobby appears to have been settled. McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, and Howard Kohr, executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, met last week to address the issue. By the end of the meeting,…
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Conservatives Fight Vaccine for Students Dem Campaigns To Keep Post
As the Food and Drug Administration prepares to approve the first vaccine against infections that cause a majority of cervical cancers, religious conservatives are rallying to keep the vaccine from being mandatory for public school students. Gardasil has been proven effective in blocking the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes cervical cancer in…
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Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz Dies at 100
Stanley Kunitz, a former American poet laureate who in his poetry made metaphoric use of the Talmud and other Jewish images, died Sunday, May 14, at age 100. Kunitz, who was known for writing on themes ranging from life and death to gardens, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1959. The son of Jewish immigrants from…
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Deal Hammered Out by Palestinian Prisoners
WASHINGTON — The recent platform embraced by the president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas, was carefully crafted behind bars earlier this month by representatives of all the major Palestinian factions. The goal: to put an end to the daily battles on the streets of Gaza between Fatah…
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Air Attacks in Lebanon Slam Hezbollah Frontline
TEL AVIV — Israel drew the Lebanese Hezbollah militia into what some military officials called an ambush this week, as a rocket attack on an Israeli position led to day-long exchanges of fire, at the end of which Hezbollah’s elaborate military installations along the Israeli-Lebanese border lay in ruins. It was the heaviest cross-border fighting…
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