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Hamas Poses Dilemma for Egypt, Jordan
WASHINGTON — As Hamas struggles to tighten its grip over the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt are seeking ways to weaken the Islamic fundamentalist movement, according to diplomats and policy experts in Washington. Jordan and Egypt had been supportive of the P.A. and its president, the Fatah-aligned Mahmoud Abbas. But, informed observers say, with Hamas…
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Newsdesk April 28, 2006
Conservative Jews Sue The Israeli wing of Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti, filed a lawsuit against the Israeli government, claiming discrimination in praying at the Western Wall. The lawsuit filed Sunday follows an agreement between the movement and the government that assured its members freedom of worship at the Robinson’s Arch area at the southern…
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Rebbe’s Funeral Sees Brief Respite From Family Feud
The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red and blue flashing of the police car sirens. The mourning was undercut by a steady anticipation of violence between followers of…
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Column Stirs Campus: Is Brandeis ‘Too Jewish’?
A student opinion column in Brandeis University’s campus newspaper has enraged parents, students and alumni by suggesting that the school is too Jewish. In the April 4 column, titled “Brandeis: Too Jewish For Its Own Good,” sophomore Matt Brown, 19, argued that the pervasive Jewishness on campus was detrimental to student life and scared away…
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Za’atar
‘We will,” Ismail Haniyeh, the new, Hamas-nominated prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, announced recently, “eat za’atar, grass, and salt, but we will not give in or renounce our principles.” How long Haniyeh expects his voters to keep going on such a diet is unclear. Not that za’atar isn’t good for you. It has been…
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Arthur Hertzberg: Rabbi, Activist, Communal Leader
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who died this week at 84, had an enormous capacity for friendship and generosity. But at the heart of everything he did was an unbending moral standard that he applied to everything and everyone he knew. The sharpness of Hertzberg’s mind was legendary among his acolytes, among whom I was honored to…
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Feed Me, Seymour
Maxine’s a fresser. I seem to remember her first word as “mama,” but both Jonathan and our baby sitter insist that I am delusional. Her first word was “cheese.” This kid will pretty much eat anything. Kiwi, stinky Stilton, dal, smoked whitefish, oily lox, spicy tofu and bitter greens with Thai fish sauce. She loves…
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Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle
One of my teachers, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, used to say that going to war is not like asking a girl out on a date. It is a very serious decision, to be made on the basis of carefully crafted answers to even more carefully crafted questions. Some serious questions, then, about…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 21, 2006
Once again Joan Braman graces the pages of Der Vinkl with her Yiddish translations of a famous English poems. This week she turns to a selection from a work by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport The very names recorded here are strange, Of foreign accent, and of different climes; Alvares and Rivera…
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Major Effort To Stir Action On Darfur Lowers Sights
After months of mobilizing for what has been described as a major effort to stop an unfolding genocide, planners of next week’s national action for Darfur are now speaking in measured terms of a radically more modest effort. Leaders of the main effort, scheduled for April 30 in Washington, were reluctant to offer projections of…
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Terror Threat Puts Community on Alert
WASHINGTON — Following a threat this week by Palestinian militants to target “Zionists outside Palestine,” a national Jewish community terrorism alert system has been activated to determine whether Jewish institutions should take extra security precautions. “Our Secure Community Network people have been in touch with law enforcement officials and are on top of” possible implications…
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