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Novelist Sharpens His Knife For Those Who Eat Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the bestselling novel “Everything is Illuminated,” this week released a video in which he argues that the slaughtering practices employed by modern factory farms are out of step with the spirit of the kosher laws. The film ultimately calls upon viewers to consider vegetarianism. The video, which features interviews with…
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Understanding the Exodus Personally: The Kibbutz Haggadah
On Passover, Jews are told to read the Haggadah (literally “the telling”) as if one personally had been a slave in Egypt and then redeemed. By individualizing the text, each person confronts the narrative in new ways, in terms of his or her own life and times. The result has been a multiplicity of Haggadot…
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A Kahane Disciple Wins Big Vote in Israeli Lubavitch Stronghold
KFAR CHABAD, Israel — Bucking the advice of their rabbis, about 30% of voters in Israel’s main Chabad-Lubavitch stronghold cast their ballots for a candidate who advocated the mass expulsion of Arabs, branded Israeli leaders traitors and called for the execution of some liberals. Baruch Marzel, running under the banner of the National Jewish Front,…
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For the Wise and Otherwise
If, as the Haggadah tells us, there are four types of children — wise, wicked, simple and oblivious — then there are two types of Passover children’s books. There are simple books, which give a straight rendition of the Passover story. These usually revolve around a family with an inquisitive child who does not know…
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‘Dear Judge’: Religion-tinged Letters Praise Good Deeds of Felon Lobbyist
When disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff showed up for court in a black fedora, critics attacked him for hiding behind his Orthodox Judaism. In the end, however, religion may have proved to be his best defense. Abramoff, who pleaded guilty recently to felony charges in Washington and in Florida, received the lightest sentence possible in the…
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Passing Over, Crossing Under
Are you so sick of me meditating on how having small children changes the nature of everything? Well, too bad. It does! It’s like going through life thinking that something was solid, and suddenly you discover it’s a gas. Passover is a case in point. For decades we had My Zayde’s Seder (aka “humminah-humminah-humminah,” the…
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Charity Eyeing Divestment From Firms With Iran Ties
When the Orlando Jewish community held a “Stop Iran Now” rally at the city’s Reform synagogue on March 14, the guest speaker was Brad Gordon, director of policy and government affairs of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In addition to warning against Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its terrorist prowess, Gordon noted that pension funds…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 7, 2006
Readers of Der Vinkl need no introduction to Joan Braman, whose clever translations of English classics into Yiddish have graced our column often. She is with us again, in a translation of a sonnet by John Keats. Bright Star Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft…
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Christian Pro-Israel Lobby Gets a Boost
WASHINGTON — Televangelist John Hagee’s push to launch a Christian pro-Israel grass-roots lobbying organization received the reluctant blessing of Jewish organizational leaders last week. Hagee, who leads a mega-church of more than 17,000 members in San Antonio, Texas, came to New York last week to win support from member groups of the Conference of Presidents…
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Cheering the Russian National Orchestra
Awaiting the arrival of filmdom’s regal Sophia Loren for the March 7 Russian National Orchestra gala at The St. Regis Hotel, the paparazzi were on their best behavior thanks to publicist R. Couri Hay’s irrevocably assigned spots behind the ropes. A barrage of unrelenting photo flashes exploded as gala honorary co-chairman Loren — spectacular in…
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After Days of Unexpected Drama, Olmert and Peretz Cement Coalition Agreement
JERUSALEM — The designation of Ehud Olmert this weekend to be Israel’s next prime minister, ostensibly a mere formality after his convincing election victory, capped a week of furious post-election intrigue that provided a nail-biting denouement to a topsy-turvy election campaign. Olmert appeared to win the top job hands down when his Kadima party came…
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