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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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Arthur Hertzberg: Rabbi, Activist, Communal Leader
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who died this week at 84, had an enormous capacity for friendship and generosity. But at the heart of everything he did was an unbending moral standard that he applied to everything and everyone he knew. The sharpness of Hertzberg’s mind was legendary among his acolytes, among whom I was honored to…
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Newsdesk April 21, 2006
U.N. Moves Criticized Just as far-reaching negotiations to reform the United Nations are under way and expected to reach their climax in the coming months, Jewish groups are denouncing two recent decisions as proof that such overhaul is needed. On Monday, the American Jewish Congress called the selection of Iran to a leadership position on…
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Israelis Mull Barghouti Release
WASHINGTON — Israeli officials this week denied press reports that individuals close to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were cooking up a deal in which imprisoned Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti would be freed in exchange for the release by the Bush administration of Jonathan Pollard, the American naval intelligence analyst who received a life sentence in…
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Tel Aviv Blast Creates ‘Shocking Scene’
TEL AVIV — Mordechai Atar, who owns a vegetable stall near the site of Monday’s deadly suicide bombing in the city’s old bus station, says he has no plans to switch locations. “I’m already used to terror attacks here,” said Atar. There was another bombing nearby just last January, and he survived then, too. Now,…
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Attack Intensifies Palestinian Divisions
Despite the refusal of official Hamas representatives to condemn Monday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv — the Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, called it “a legitimate act of self-defense” and said Israel must take responsibility for its policy of “aggressive occupation” — the timing of the attack is most inconvenient for the militant…
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Sheygetz
Bernard Adelman from Winthrop, Mass, writes: “How does one derive [the Yiddish plural noun] ‘scotsim’ from [the singular] ‘sheygetz,’ when it seems that ‘scotsim’ would be the plural only of ‘scots’? Sheygetz, of course, is a Yiddish word referring either to a young gentile male, or else to a young Jewish male who behaves like…
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Students Confront ‘Hiroshima’
Because of my wartime survival thanks to one of Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara’s visas (which saved nearly 6,000 Jewish lives), and my 1941 sojourn in pre-Pearl Harbor Japan, Esther Nussbaum, librarian at New York City’s Ramaz Upper School, asked me to be one of the speakers at the school’s March 28 “Book Day 2006.” The…
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Feed Me, Seymour
Maxine’s a fresser. I seem to remember her first word as “mama,” but both Jonathan and our baby sitter insist that I am delusional. Her first word was “cheese.” This kid will pretty much eat anything. Kiwi, stinky Stilton, dal, smoked whitefish, oily lox, spicy tofu and bitter greens with Thai fish sauce. She loves…
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Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle
One of my teachers, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, used to say that going to war is not like asking a girl out on a date. It is a very serious decision, to be made on the basis of carefully crafted answers to even more carefully crafted questions. Some serious questions, then, about…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 21, 2006
Once again Joan Braman graces the pages of Der Vinkl with her Yiddish translations of a famous English poems. This week she turns to a selection from a work by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport The very names recorded here are strange, Of foreign accent, and of different climes; Alvares and Rivera…
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