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Deadline Extension Is Needed Rx For Ill-made Medicare Drug Plan
In recent years, the greatest unmet need of older adults has been affordable prescription medicine. On average, Americans have been paying double what people in Canada and the European Union pay for the exact same prescriptions. The extravagant price of medication in the United States has been due in no small part to bitter congressional…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 28, 2006
Every culture has its proverbs, bits of folk wisdom helpful in times of sorrow or joy, fear or hope, frustration or epiphany. In 1997, Yiddishist Fred Kogos put together a collection of proverbs in a book titled “The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases and Proverbs” (Carol Publishing Group). What follows are a few selections…
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Jewish Groups Join in Bid To Aid Arabs, But Spar Over Olmert Tie to Rightist
A coalition of American Jewish organizations launched a groundbreaking initiative this week to improve the socio-economic standing of Israeli Arabs, but participating groups were split on whether to speak out against the inclusion of an ultra-nationalist, reputedly anti-Arab party in Israel’s new government. Last Wednesday, a new task force made up of Israeli experts and…
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Juilliard Celebrates Its Centennial
So oversubscribed was the April 3 Juilliard School Centennial Gala at Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater that a number of guests ended up enjoying the concert on screens in the theater’s VIP lounge. Among the attendees were Linda Fierstein, Mary Rodgers, David Judelson, and Barbara Barrie. Between canapés, Barrie told me that being fired…
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Rabbi Enters Falwell’s Bastion And Issues Plea for Tolerance
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Addressing one of the country’s most influential Christian fundamentalist colleges this week, the leader of America’s largest synagogue movement highlighted areas of common concern while calling for mutual respect and toleration of diversity. I can “believe what I believe without calling you a homophobic bigot, and you can do the same without…
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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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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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