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The Last of the Jewish Doughboys Ship Out
Walter Lese lived during three centuries and witnessed some of modern history’s most earthshaking events. He was also one of the last surviving Jewish veterans of the First World War. With his passing, an occasion arises to mark the end of an era — and to remember a proud chapter of American Jewish history. World…
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Africa’s Hope
The 20,000 demonstrators who rallied in Washington last weekend to end the killing in Darfur might not have broken any attendance records, but they did create something more important: the beginnings of a new language and a new calculus in American foreign policy-making. No longer will it be possible for this nation’s leaders to say…
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Hailing an Immigrant Landmark
It was a glorious day as the Circle Line boat looped past the Statue of Liberty and docked at Ellis Island for the April 19 Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards 2006 ceremony. “This is a symbolic journey into the past,” said Cynthia Garrett, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. “Since…
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Terrorism Still Iran’s Most Feared Trump Card
A senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards warned this week that any strike against his country by the United States would be met with a severe missile attack against Israel. History suggests, however, that Tehran’s most menacing threat is its vow to carry out retaliatory terrorist strikes against American interests around the world. In…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 5, 2006
Once again, our genial genius, Stanley Siegelman, returns to Der Vinkl with his incomparable ability to unearth a rare bit of news and then make his poetic commentary on the event in both English and Yiddish. This time the news is about an Asiatic elephant that had been conceived through artificial insemination at Jerusalem’s Biblical…
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U.S.-Europe Rift Looms on Hamas Aid
WASHINGTON — American-led efforts to block aid to the Hamas-led Plaestinian government are forcing the Islamic fundamentalist movement to backtrack on several fronts, but international support for the financial siege appears to be waning. With the Palestinian Authority facing bankruptcy and unable to pay salaries to government employees, Hamas is quietly seeking ways to form…
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Former Military Chief: Keep West Bank
WASHINGTON — Moshe Yaalon, the recently retired chief of staff of the Israeli military, is a kibbutznik from a Labor movement background. But in sharp contrast to the retired military men entering the next Knesset, Yaalon is the rare, and arguably most important, retired Israeli general to publicly oppose unilateral Israeli withdrawals from the West…
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Boarding School Founder Chico Sabbah
Maurice “Chico” Sabbah, founder of the nation’s only non-Orthodox Jewish boarding school, died April 17 at age 77. A wealthy businessman, Sabbah poured more than $100 million into the school’s 100-acre campus in Greensboro, N.C. His contribution, which paid full tuition for the school’s initial 77 students, is believed to be the single largest donation…
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Hamas Poses Dilemma for Egypt, Jordan
WASHINGTON — As Hamas struggles to tighten its grip over the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt are seeking ways to weaken the Islamic fundamentalist movement, according to diplomats and policy experts in Washington. Jordan and Egypt had been supportive of the P.A. and its president, the Fatah-aligned Mahmoud Abbas. But, informed observers say, with Hamas…
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Newsdesk April 28, 2006
Conservative Jews Sue The Israeli wing of Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti, filed a lawsuit against the Israeli government, claiming discrimination in praying at the Western Wall. The lawsuit filed Sunday follows an agreement between the movement and the government that assured its members freedom of worship at the Robinson’s Arch area at the southern…
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Rebbe’s Funeral Sees Brief Respite From Family Feud
The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red and blue flashing of the police car sirens. The mourning was undercut by a steady anticipation of violence between followers of…
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