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Olmert Pushes for Quick Pullout From Large Part of West Bank
Ehud Olmert is in a hurry. Call it bicycle politics: If he goes too slow, he’s likely to fall. Even as he tries to patch together a ruling coalition, Israel’s prime minister-designate has said that he plans to carry out a second disengagement — this time from a large swath of the West Bank —…
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History’s Scrap Heap: Families Sell Off Yards, and Legacy
LAS VEGAS — When Barry Kroot and his brother signed away the deed to their family’s scrap metal yard last month, they joined a new Jewish exodus. Like many other scrap metal businesses in America, K&F Industries got started when a relative (in this case, Barry’s grandfather) came from a Polish shtetl to small-town America….
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Thousands of Romani Survivors Destitute After Reparations Fund Dries Up
The sole reparations program devoted to Romani, or Gypsy, Holocaust survivors ran out of funds at the beginning of this month, leaving tens of thousands vulnerable to starvation and extreme weather. For the past four years, the International Organization for Migration has spent $32 million providing emergency assistance to destitute Romani survivors of the Holocaust…
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Billboards Focus on Jewish Domestic Violence
TORONTO — A Canadian Jewish organization initiated a Passover-timed billboard campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence, with the theme “There is a Jewish woman you know being abused.” Three 10-by-20-foot billboards, carrying that message beside an image of a distressed woman with a black eye, were strategically placed along Bathurst Street, the main thoroughfare…
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Spouses Influence Converts’ Commitment
A new qualitative study on interfaith families argues that it is a mistake to view converts to Judaism as a single class. In her new study, “Choosing Jewish: Conversations About Conversion,” Brandeis University Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman attempts to explain why non-Jews convert and how their conversions affect the wider Jewish community. She divides converts…
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Stolen Paintings Fueling Family Conflict
The fight to reclaim artworks stolen by the Nazis is pitting the granddaughter of a Holocaust victim against her father’s estate and its main beneficiary, a mental health clinic. At issue are the paintings that belonged to the late Heinrich Rieger, a dentist who lived in Vienna before World War II and bartered with patients…
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Newsdesk April 21, 2006
U.N. Moves Criticized Just as far-reaching negotiations to reform the United Nations are under way and expected to reach their climax in the coming months, Jewish groups are denouncing two recent decisions as proof that such overhaul is needed. On Monday, the American Jewish Congress called the selection of Iran to a leadership position on…
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Israelis Mull Barghouti Release
WASHINGTON — Israeli officials this week denied press reports that individuals close to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were cooking up a deal in which imprisoned Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti would be freed in exchange for the release by the Bush administration of Jonathan Pollard, the American naval intelligence analyst who received a life sentence in…
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Tel Aviv Blast Creates ‘Shocking Scene’
TEL AVIV — Mordechai Atar, who owns a vegetable stall near the site of Monday’s deadly suicide bombing in the city’s old bus station, says he has no plans to switch locations. “I’m already used to terror attacks here,” said Atar. There was another bombing nearby just last January, and he survived then, too. Now,…
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Attack Intensifies Palestinian Divisions
Despite the refusal of official Hamas representatives to condemn Monday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv — the Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, called it “a legitimate act of self-defense” and said Israel must take responsibility for its policy of “aggressive occupation” — the timing of the attack is most inconvenient for the militant…
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Sheygetz
Bernard Adelman from Winthrop, Mass, writes: “How does one derive [the Yiddish plural noun] ‘scotsim’ from [the singular] ‘sheygetz,’ when it seems that ‘scotsim’ would be the plural only of ‘scots’? Sheygetz, of course, is a Yiddish word referring either to a young gentile male, or else to a young Jewish male who behaves like…
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