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Christian Pro-Israel Lobby Gets a Boost
WASHINGTON — Televangelist John Hagee’s push to launch a Christian pro-Israel grass-roots lobbying organization received the reluctant blessing of Jewish organizational leaders last week. Hagee, who leads a mega-church of more than 17,000 members in San Antonio, Texas, came to New York last week to win support from member groups of the Conference of Presidents…
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Cheering the Russian National Orchestra
Awaiting the arrival of filmdom’s regal Sophia Loren for the March 7 Russian National Orchestra gala at The St. Regis Hotel, the paparazzi were on their best behavior thanks to publicist R. Couri Hay’s irrevocably assigned spots behind the ropes. A barrage of unrelenting photo flashes exploded as gala honorary co-chairman Loren — spectacular in…
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After Days of Unexpected Drama, Olmert and Peretz Cement Coalition Agreement
JERUSALEM — The designation of Ehud Olmert this weekend to be Israel’s next prime minister, ostensibly a mere formality after his convincing election victory, capped a week of furious post-election intrigue that provided a nail-biting denouement to a topsy-turvy election campaign. Olmert appeared to win the top job hands down when his Kadima party came…
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Hitkansut
Hitkansut. (Hit-kahn-SOOT.) Keep an eye out for it. It’s already a much bandied about and argued about Hebrew buzzword, and it’s going to become even more of one. It’s not an easy word to translate. According to the context, it might be rendered in English as “getting together,” “rallying round,” “gathering oneself” or “withdrawing into…
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Honoring Italy at the Intrepid Museum
“My name is Guillermo Bianco. [Tonight] we are all Italians and welcome you,” Intrepid Foundation President Bill White proclaimed at the March l Intrepid Freedom Award dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Among the 1,000 black-tie and uniformed guests aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum were Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman;…
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Monthly Publication Sets Sights on Young Readers
most people agree that the future of yiddish depends on cultivating a new generation of young people who speak and read the language. In response to the glaring shortage of contemporary reading material for today’s students of Yiddish, the Forverts has begun publishing a monthly news supplement called Vayter (a synonym for “Forward”), written in…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Texas Two-step: A Jewish woman lawyer is poised to win a Democratic primary runoff and take on incumbent Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Barbara Ann Radnofsky was in New York City last week for campaign events, including a Women’s Campaign Fund cocktail party, a meet-the-candidate night at the Park Avenue home of Diane Chernoff…
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New Cards Mine Baseball’s Jewish Bench
Before the start of the 2004 baseball season, the American Jewish Historical Society published a set of baseball cards devoted to Jews in the Major Leagues. The set featured the 142 members of the tribe who had made the big time — even if only for the proverbial cup of coffee. For baseball nuts like…
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Bush: We’ll Protect Israel
President Bush suggested this week that Israeli security was a main reason for America’s effort to block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel,” Bush declared, following a speech Monday in which he defended his administration’s Iraq policy. “That’s a threat,…
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Keeping a Lid on Sin City’s Temptations
These days, Las Vegas has it all: world-class entertainment, high-end casinos, art museums, all-you-can-eat buffets and lots and lots of Jews. Clark County, which includes the Vegas area, is home to about 1.7 million residents — as many as 100,000 of whom are Jewish. Each month brings 600 more Jewish transplants to the area, making…
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Orchestra Started by Shoah Refugees
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Erich Eisner founded the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra in 1945, six years after being released from the Dachau concentration camp and landing in the South American country. Bolivia was one of the few countries still willing to take Jews as World War II erupted in 1939. Eisner, a pianist born in…
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