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Purim as Queen Esther’s ‘Coming Out’
We don’t tend to think of holidays as occasions into which we grow, but that is, in part, what they are. Thirty years ago, as a child growing up in the shah’s Iran, Purim was just another holiday to me. Later, on my family’s departure from Tehran — when I was just beginning to understand…
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Bias Attacks In France Fuel Concern About Blacks
A string of antisemitic incidents in the aftermath of the torture and murder of a young Jewish vendor is fueling concerns that anti-Jewish feelings are spreading in France’s black community. The incidents — three physical attacks allegedly committed by blacks of Muslim descent — occurred in recent days, following the extradition from Ivory Coast last…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 10, 2006
Joan Braman continues to enrich the columns of Der Yiddish Vinkl with her Yiddish translations of English classics. This time her subject is… Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the…
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Zionist Organization’s Chief Faced Workplace Complaints
During the buildup to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza last year, the Zionist Organization of America and its outspoken national president, Morton Klein, spearheaded opposition to the plan among right-wing American Jews. At the same time that he was juggling Middle Eastern politics, however, Klein also was facing down a lawsuit from his ghostwriter and top…
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Israeli Arabs Voicing Anger After Incident at Nazareth Church
A handful of firecrackers set off by an emotionally unstable family during Mass in Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation brought thousands of angry people to the city’s streets, in an hours-long melee that left more than a score of protesters and police injured. That was evidence, as if more were needed, of the resentments of…
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Groups Mostly Mum About U.N. Council
For years, Israel and its supporters have denounced the United Nations Commission on Human Rights as a sham and an annual anti-Israel slugfest. But now they are mostly keeping quiet regarding the furious debate over efforts to replace the commission. The debate has broken out between the Bush administration on the one hand, and a…
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Newsdesk March 10, 2006
L.A. Rabbi Resigns Rabbi Aron Tendler has resigned from the pulpit of Shaarey Zedek, an Orthodox synagogue in Valley Village, Calif., under a cloud of sexual allegations relating to his previous tenure at an Orthodox high school. The controversy makes Tendler, 51, the second member of his prominent rabbinic family to fall under scrutiny for…
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Are ZOA’s Claims Inflated?
A potential donor browsing promotional material for the Zionist Organization of America would see a strong organization that has 50,000 members, 36 regional offices and three programs in Israel. But these numbers appear to be exaggerated. The number of dues-paying members is overstated by almost 40,000, and two of the three Israel programs no longer…
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U.S. Studies Iranian’s Religious Ideology
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s surprise victory in the Iranian presidential elections last year sent foreign-policy experts in Washington scrambling to decipher the little-known former Tehran mayor suddenly in charge of a country determined to master nuclear technology. The task has become all the more urgent and complex in recent months since Ahmadinejad has intensified his confrontational rhetoric,…
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Probe of Settler Clash Meets Resistance
JERUSALEM — Israel’s two top security officials decided this week to appear personally before a special Knesset committee rather than permit officers to testify in an investigation of the violent clashes at the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona. The two officials, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra, said they were…
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Groups Split on Cartoons
The eruption of violent Islamic protests over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered a sharp debate between Jewish organizations over whether they should be speaking out about the crisis. The American Jewish Committee sent a delegation of its leaders to Denmark, which has come under harsh condemnation in the Muslim world for not…
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