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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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Abe Rosenthal, New York Times Editor and Advocate for Israel
Abraham Michael Rosenthal of The New York Times, who died last week at the age of 84, was eulogized Sunday as a great foreign correspondent, a formidable editor and a compassionate columnist. He was indeed all those things, but he was also a Jew who did so much over his brilliant 60-year career to honor…
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Summer Camps Draw Philanthropists’ Dollars
Situated in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, Eisner Camp and Crane Lake Camp make every effort to provide their campers with a memorable summer experience. But it’s only recently that they’ve honed in on the one thing that will allow those summer experiences to continue for years to come — fund raising. Eisner and…
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Book Offers New Image of Canadian Pol
MONTREAL — A new biography asserts that former Canadian prime minister Pierre E. Trudeau — long viewed as a defender of civil rights and as a friend of the Jewish community — was a fascist sympathizer in his youth and shared the antisemitic attitudes prevalent in the 1930s and early ’40s. The revelations, contained in…
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Immigration Tiff in Israel Splits Justices
Israeli law contains no provision “by which constitutional human rights give way in a time of war,” even in a time of fighting terror, Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak wrote this week — taking his stand on one of the critical legal issues in Israel today. Barak’s statement was part of a Supreme Court decision…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 19, 2006
Stanley Siegelman returns to Der Vinkl with his discovery of rare news followed by his commentary on the subject in poetic form — in both Yiddish and English. The rare bit of news is the following: “Las Vegas is attracting new Jewish residents at an astonishing rate — about 600 people a month. The city…
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Pentagon’s Budget Has Too Many Dollars and Not Enough Sense
FORWARD FORUM All the conditions are ripe for a major debate on America’s defense budget. A Republican White House and Congress have produced, at increased cost, a military establishment that is shrinking, aging and less ready to fight. The ruinous effects have shown up again and again, in the form of over-stretched, poorly supported forces…
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Fast Forward
We ladies of the tribe always have had a tangled, knotty relationship with our hair. We’ve ironed, moussed, gelled and blow-dried it into submission. We’ve slept with it rolled on little pink sponges and wrapped around giant metal juice cans. While the dominant culture deified the pristine blond Breck girls of the ’50s and ’60s,…
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On Eve of Olmert Visit, White House Holds Off Embracing Pullout Plan
WASHINGTON — With President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert set to meet next week, the White House is sending clear signals that it does not plan to offer an immediate public endorsement of the Israeli leader’s plan for unilateral pullbacks from the West Bank. This week Bush administration officials told a team of Olmert…
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Peace, Love and Understanding
‘We’re in the people business. We stand for diversity,” Antonio “L.A.” Reid said to the crush of guests that he and his wife, Erica, were hosting for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s April 25 benefit. Past foundation honoree Reid, chairman of The Island Def Jam Music Group, added, “Thank you for not spilling anything” —…
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