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THE J.A.P. ISSUE: FROM PAGE TO STAGE
Isabel Rose has done much in her lifetime to debunk the stereotype of the JAP. Now that her hit debut novel, “The J.A.P. Chronicles” (Doubleday, 2005), is being staged as a musical, her crusade is gaining even more attention. “More than anything, I want to keep breaking down the stereotype of the JAP and to…
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Ala. Democrats Scramble To Bounce Shoah Denier From Primary Ballot
A Democratic candidate for Alabama’s attorney general’s office has been exposed as a Holocaust denier less than a month before the state’s June 6 primaries. Larry Darby believes that there were no more than 140,000 Jewish deaths during World War II — most of them having been brought on by typhus — and that the…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Exhibit Cloistered World: It might seem strange for a Jewish woman to spend significant amounts of time in the company of nuns, but in the context of Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog’s work, it’s completely logical. Almog, who is currently based in New York, has dedicated much of her artwork to capturing women’s private lives on…
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Dutch Politician Resigns in Asylum Flap
A firestorm has erupted in the Netherlands over a government minister’s move to strip a Somali-born politician — and outspoken critic of radical Islam — of her Dutch citizenship. The Dutch parliament passed two motions Wednesday ordering Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk to reconsider her move to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s citizenship. Both women are members…
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A TRUTHFUL LENS
She is usually associated with abstract photographs that reveal human characteristics in nature, but Israeli artist Michal Ronnen Safdie stepped into a different role behind the lens of her camera when she traveled to Rwanda in October 2002 and to Chad in September 2004. In Rwanda, Safdie documented the Gacaca (pronounced ga-CHA-cha), traditional, citizen-based trials…
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Terror Victim Mourned At Florida Funeral Service
More than 900 mourners gathered Tuesday afternoon at a Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in South Florida to pay their respects to 16-year-old Daniel Wultz, a victim of a suicide bombing in Israel last month. So many mourners showed up to the service that the fire marshal barred any more from entering, forcing about 100 people to stand…
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Olmert Begins To Lay Out Unilateral Plan
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s visit to Washington next week is being depicted by senior administration officials as a “getting to know you” visit. But as much as President Bush and his foreign-affairs staffers would like to get better acquainted with Olmert, they are anxious to hear more from him about his plan to…
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Peretz Pressing for Palestinian Talks
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his main coalition partner, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, had their first major flap since the formation of the new Israeli government. At issue was Peretz’s position on negotiations with the Palestinians. In closed sessions with top Defense Ministry officials, Peretz, head of the Labor Party, called for an early resumption…
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Newsdesk May 19, 2006
Chomsky, Militants Meet Noam Chomsky met with Hezbollah’s leader, the Al-Manar TV network reported. The terrorist group’s station broadcast that the American linguist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor met with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut this week, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. “Hezbollah’s insistence on keeping arms is justified,” Al-Manar quoted…
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Report: Yeshiva Covered Up Abuse
A Brooklyn rabbi and his yeshiva were hit with a $20 million civil lawsuit earlier this month. The suit alleges a pattern of sexual abuse on the part of the teacher, coupled with concealment and intimidation on the part of school officials. According to David Framowitz, a 48-year Israeli who is named as John Doe…
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Jay Yoskowitz, American Technion Society Official
Jay Yoskowitz, a Jewish communal leader who most recently served as senior vice president of the American Technion Society, died suddenly May 2 from heart failure. Yoskowitz suffered a fatal heart attack in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home just hours after attending the double funeral of his parents, who had passed away within hours of each…
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