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Martial Arts in Yiddish
Sherry Leffert from Cambridge, Mass., writes: “I have been a Tai Chi student, and my husband and I were wondering how the martial arts terms would be translated into Yiddish. We thought of ‘zetz,’ ‘frosk,’ ‘patsh’ ‘klop,’ ‘shtrokh,’ ‘shlug,’ and ‘hock.’ Can you think of any others? Are there distinctions between these terms? Please enlighten…
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Celebrating Tel Aviv University
“Jews can survive persecution. Jews can’t survive indifference,” said 90-year old Bernard Lewis, an honoree at the June 14 Tel Aviv University Jubilee dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Lewis, who is Cleveland E. Dodge professor of Near Eastern studies, emeritus, at Princeton University and visiting fellow of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, is…
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Rekindling the Romance
This summer, we’ll be visiting Bubbe in Newport, R.I., and my in-laws in Milwaukee. In Newport we will pick raspberries, scream in terror at lobsters, gaze in wonder at the surreal topiaries at Green Animals, ride the carousel at First Beach. In Milwaukee we will once again eyeball livestock at the Wisconsin State Fair, run…
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The Yarmulke Fetish: A Matter of Pride
Something special happened to me the summer I turned 13. It wasn’t just that I became a teenager. As puberty progressed and hormones raced through my body, I came to grasp that I wasn’t simply becoming a man — I was starting to like men. This was the fateful summer I realized I was gay….
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL
Joan Braman graces the Yiddish Vinkl with another of her translations of an English classic into Yiddish. This week, she has chosen a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Nature As a fond mother, when the day is o’er Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And…
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Why Not Involve Iran in Effort
FORWARD FORUM The world faces different crises all the time, and each generation feels its crises to be the biggest. But nobody can ignore the fact that recent developments in certain parts of the world are having a major impact on the relations between nations and peoples. The recent North Korean missile tests, the terrorist…
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First-born Sons And Feminine Plural Endings
Forward reader Leon Chameides has been, so he writes, “troubled since Passover,” which is indeed a long time to be troubled. What is bothering him is “the grammatical construction of the tenth plague.” Why, Mr. Chameides wishes to know, is this plague known in Jewish tradition as makat bekhorot, “the plague of the first-born sons…
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Fuzzy Rules, Rising Stakes In Middle East Poker Game
Forget about chess, with its ordered rules, as a simulation for war. Israel’s current crisis in Lebanon and Gaza shows that the closest model is poker — a high-stakes version with no limits on bets and no certainty even about who is sitting at the table. In fact, the very meaning of winning is likely…
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Bombs Send Tourists South
SAFED, Israel — Since Hezbollah began firing rockets on northern Israel a week ago, no guests have shown up at Aya Peretz’s bed-and-breakfast cabins. It may be the year’s busiest tourism period in the rural north, but Peretz is huddling in a bomb shelter with her husband and three children instead of hosting couples seeking…
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Lack of Meat Choices Not Kosher, Say Conservative Shuls in St. Paul
When Amy Markon set out to find a cheaper source of kosher meat for her family, the mother of four had no idea what she was in for. Since moving to St. Paul, Minn., seven years ago, Markon had grown increasingly bothered by her limited choices when it came to buying kosher beef. The woman,…
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Religious Liberals Take Lead In Massachusetts Health Debate
As Democrats debate the proper role of faith in public life, liberal religious activists and organizations in Massachusetts are mobilizing to ensure that a new state health plan is offered to residents at a low cost. From Seventh-day Adventists praying in a former Jewish synagogue in Roxbury to members of Boston’s gleaming Temple Israel, the…
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