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Say ‘No’ to Warmongering
If one more person says the words “Mommy Wars” to me I will clock them with a bottle of Enjoli. While I will not deny that there are women who judge other women’s choices and find them wanting (and these women, when they were girls, sauntered by your table in the lunchroom and said, “No…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Texas Two-step: A Jewish woman lawyer is poised to win a Democratic primary runoff and take on incumbent Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Barbara Ann Radnofsky was in New York City last week for campaign events, including a Women’s Campaign Fund cocktail party, a meet-the-candidate night at the Park Avenue home of Diane Chernoff…
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New Cards Mine Baseball’s Jewish Bench
Before the start of the 2004 baseball season, the American Jewish Historical Society published a set of baseball cards devoted to Jews in the Major Leagues. The set featured the 142 members of the tribe who had made the big time — even if only for the proverbial cup of coffee. For baseball nuts like…
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Bush: We’ll Protect Israel
President Bush suggested this week that Israeli security was a main reason for America’s effort to block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel,” Bush declared, following a speech Monday in which he defended his administration’s Iraq policy. “That’s a threat,…
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Keeping a Lid on Sin City’s Temptations
These days, Las Vegas has it all: world-class entertainment, high-end casinos, art museums, all-you-can-eat buffets and lots and lots of Jews. Clark County, which includes the Vegas area, is home to about 1.7 million residents — as many as 100,000 of whom are Jewish. Each month brings 600 more Jewish transplants to the area, making…
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Orchestra Started by Shoah Refugees
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Erich Eisner founded the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra in 1945, six years after being released from the Dachau concentration camp and landing in the South American country. Bolivia was one of the few countries still willing to take Jews as World War II erupted in 1939. Eisner, a pianist born in…
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Literary Lion Gets French Salute
Norman Mailer was awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest distinction, on March 3 in New York at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. I first met Mailer in Anaheim, Calif., in 1973 at the American Booksellers Association convention, where his book, “Marilyn” (about Marilyn Monroe, whom he’d never met), caused such a buzz…
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Iran Bill May Hinder Efforts on Nukes
Congressional efforts to enact stringent sanctions against Tehran could hamper the administration’s drive to cobble a broad international coalition to curb the Iranian nuclear program. Last week, the House International Relations Committee passed 37-3 the Iran Freedom Support Act, which would authorize the president to promote democracy in Iran and slap sanctions on foreign companies…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions ‘Modern Memoirs’: Renowned New York journalists Sam Freedman and Joe Lelyveld talk about Jewish identity, family relationships and personal history in a book discussion moderated by Forward features editor Gabriel Sanders. Freedman focuses on the life of his mother, who died at the age of 50, in his book “Who She Was:…
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Newsdesk March 24, 2006
Bishop Blasts Occupation A leading American Catholic bishop said that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a factor in the persecution of Christians in Muslim lands. “The failure to secure a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with its resulting occupation of Palestinian lands, sometimes spills over into prejudices and distrusts [sic] of indigenous…
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STAGED REVIVAL
“You can’t change your family,” actress and playwright Sherry Glaser said. “You either make peace with it, or you suffer.” Glaser, it seems, has made peace. In her acclaimed one-woman show, “Family Secrets,” she draws on personal experiences and boldly dives into the ever-complex realm of blood relations. The play, which originally ran off-Broadway in…
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