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Groups Pressing Jerusalem On Jailed Darfur Refugees
As American Jewish leaders were publicly calling on the Bush administration this week to do more to end the killing in Darfur, behind the scenes they were quietly pressing the Israeli government about its treatment of 160 imprisoned Sudanese refugees. Over the past year, dozens of Sudanese asylum-seekers have crossed into Israel illegally, particularly after…
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German Jewish Leader Dies, 68
The leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, died Sunday. Spiegel, who was 68, had been hospitalized in Dusseldorf with cancer. As head of the council for the past several years, he represented one of Europe’s largest Jewish populations, numbering more than 100,000 members.
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As Las Vegas Booms, Infrastructure Lags
LAS VEGAS — Imagine a place where synagogue services are held in funeral parlors, casinos stand in for Jewish community centers and the rabbis have to plan their services at old-age homes, around gambling field trips. Welcome to Las Vegas. Thanks to a booming casino economy and the popularity of the Southwest among retirees, Las…
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Newsdesk May 5, 2006
GOP Chairman Booed The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, was booed at an American Jewish Committee event because of his comments on Iraq. Mehlman, who is Jewish, was greeted with hisses and boos when he said that Iraq posed less of a challenge now than it had under Saddam Hussein. The GOP…
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Some Belated Thoughts About Afikoman
The Passover Seder may be behind us, but reader Saul Newman is still thinking about it. That is, he’s thinking about the afikoman, the piece of matzo hidden away by the head of the family (and stolen for bargaining purposes, if they can find it, by the children at the table), whose shared consumption marks…
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Stomach Cancer: Venturing Into the Belly of the Beast
I’ve come to Fuzhou, a city of 5 or 6 million people in southern China, to help along some research into gastric cancer. Fujian Province, of which Fuzhou is the capital, records more cases of the cancer than anywhere else in the world. Fuzhou isn’t a bad city to call home for six weeks —…
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On Learning How To Breathe More Easily
Every once in a while I take a break from my very time-consuming twin hobbies of neurosis and obsession to remember how fortunate we are. I was reading back through some old columns (and marveling at the amount of navel gazing you people put up with), when I hit the one about our first visit…
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On the Inevitable Decay Of Governments
The political organization, no less than the human being, learns as it grows. In the individual, this growth is ramified in the very physical development of the brain, and is first and always in aid of the expedited accomplishment of tasks. The political organism, like the individual, embodies that one adaptive mechanism specific to the…
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The Last of the Jewish Doughboys Ship Out
Walter Lese lived during three centuries and witnessed some of modern history’s most earthshaking events. He was also one of the last surviving Jewish veterans of the First World War. With his passing, an occasion arises to mark the end of an era — and to remember a proud chapter of American Jewish history. World…
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Africa’s Hope
The 20,000 demonstrators who rallied in Washington last weekend to end the killing in Darfur might not have broken any attendance records, but they did create something more important: the beginnings of a new language and a new calculus in American foreign policy-making. No longer will it be possible for this nation’s leaders to say…
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Hailing an Immigrant Landmark
It was a glorious day as the Circle Line boat looped past the Statue of Liberty and docked at Ellis Island for the April 19 Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards 2006 ceremony. “This is a symbolic journey into the past,” said Cynthia Garrett, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. “Since…
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