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Summer Storms Kill Two N.J. Teens, Michigan Camp Director
HACKENSACK, N.J. — The two teenagers were enjoying the long days of summer last Saturday, playing a casual, early-evening game of soccer with friends. But when a thunderstorm touched down July 22 on the elementary school field in Montvale, N.J., where Steven Fagan, 18, and Lee Weisbrod, 19, were playing soccer, a bolt of lightning…
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Victims Press Brooklyn D.A. To Seek Abuse Suspect’s Extradition From Israel
In the wake of new revelations about sexual abuse in the Orthodox community, pressure is mounting on the Brooklyn district attorney to seek the extradition of a man who fled to Israel after being indicted for sex offenses. Avrohom Mondrowitz was indicted in 1984 on four counts of sodomy and eight counts of sexual abuse…
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Rabbi Said To Drop Fight An Orthodox rabbi has dropped his legal fight to identify anonymous bloggers who wrote on their Web sites about his alleged sexual harassment of female congregants. Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, who was accused by at least nine women from his former congregation in New Hempstead, N.Y., of sexually propositioning them when…
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West Plays Nice, But Putin Talks Tough at Summit
Leading up to last weekend’s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, talk swirled in the United States and Europe over how best to confront Russia’s perceived slide toward authoritarianism. In the end, the United States and its allies opted not to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin openly about his consolidation of power and crackdown…
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National Vouchers Pushed Republicans in Congress proposed a national school-voucher program. The $100 million program proposed Tuesday would pay for low-income students in weak public schools to attend private or religious schools. The money would go for tuition and for private tutoring. Politically conservative and Orthodox Jews support vouchers, saying they increase school choice and…
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Musical Reflects on Shoah
Last week, in the small German city of Neumarkt, the curtain went up on an improbable musical about the life and death of a young Jewish woman who was deported and killed by the Nazis. The production was unlikely in part because of the Broadway format chosen for a Holocaust tale. But more than this,…
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Canada Gets Orthodox Guardian Angel
TORONTO — With an Orthodox Jew at their helm, two dozen recent graduates of the Guardian Angels training program — resplendent in their trademark red berets and red satin bomber jackets — last week launched the first Canadian chapter of the New York-based law-and-order group. Lou Hoffer, a former Toronto cop and security consultant, first…
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Likely Veto Sinks Hope on Stem Cells
After years of lobbying for embryonic stem-cell research, Jewish activists braced themselves this week for President Bush’s promised veto of a bill that would have provided federal funding for the research. “I’m disappointed,” said Marla Gilson, the director of the Washington Action Office of Hadassah, the country’s largest Jewish membership organization. “In some ways, this…
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In Israel’s Largest Muslim City, Strife Stirs Complex Emotions
The mayor of Umm El Fahm, Sheikh Hashem, interrupted our interview to take a call. He spoke in Hebrew, asking about the safety of the children of the person on the other end of the phone line. Afterward, he explained that the mayors of Arab villages were meeting tomorrow with Jewish regional councils to discuss…
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Yiddish Sounds From the USO
One of the honorees at the June 7 USO of Metropolitan New York luncheon at the Pierre Hotel was philanthropist Francine LeFrak, an award-winning theatrical and television producer whose productions have earned Tonys, Emmys, Peabody Awards and more. Introduced by MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby, LeFrak paid homage to her father, “Sam LeFrak, who built affordable…
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Healthy Roots Rediscovered
It’s a well-known stereotype: Jewish cooking is overly sweet and dripping with fat — a cholesterol-raising nightmare. In his newly published “The Healthy Jewish Cookbook,” health guru Michael van Straten seeks to discredit the misleading statement that “all Jewish food is ‘a heart attack on a plate.’” The author of more than 30 other health-related…
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