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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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Literary Lion Gets French Salute
Norman Mailer was awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest distinction, on March 3 in New York at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. I first met Mailer in Anaheim, Calif., in 1973 at the American Booksellers Association convention, where his book, “Marilyn” (about Marilyn Monroe, whom he’d never met), caused such a buzz…
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Iran Bill May Hinder Efforts on Nukes
Congressional efforts to enact stringent sanctions against Tehran could hamper the administration’s drive to cobble a broad international coalition to curb the Iranian nuclear program. Last week, the House International Relations Committee passed 37-3 the Iran Freedom Support Act, which would authorize the president to promote democracy in Iran and slap sanctions on foreign companies…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions ‘Modern Memoirs’: Renowned New York journalists Sam Freedman and Joe Lelyveld talk about Jewish identity, family relationships and personal history in a book discussion moderated by Forward features editor Gabriel Sanders. Freedman focuses on the life of his mother, who died at the age of 50, in his book “Who She Was:…
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Newsdesk March 24, 2006
Bishop Blasts Occupation A leading American Catholic bishop said that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a factor in the persecution of Christians in Muslim lands. “The failure to secure a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with its resulting occupation of Palestinian lands, sometimes spills over into prejudices and distrusts [sic] of indigenous…
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STAGED REVIVAL
“You can’t change your family,” actress and playwright Sherry Glaser said. “You either make peace with it, or you suffer.” Glaser, it seems, has made peace. In her acclaimed one-woman show, “Family Secrets,” she draws on personal experiences and boldly dives into the ever-complex realm of blood relations. The play, which originally ran off-Broadway in…
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Rabbis Do the Conga in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — At the annual convention of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly this week, the nametags were green and white, the complimentary bags were woven in bright colors and the R.A. logo wore a sombrero in honor of the Mexican hosts. The international, 1,600-member rabbinical union held its weeklong parley in a gleaming hotel…
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Israel Drops Bid To Curb Palestinian Refugee Body
WASHINGTON — In a sudden, unheralded reversal of policy, Israel and its allies here are dropping their campaign to curb the activities of the United Nations agency charged with aiding Palestinian refugees. Israeli officials and Jewish groups have long accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee…
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Israel Policy Forum Names New Head
The Israel Policy Forum has picked David Elcott to be its new executive director. Elcott, who has served as the American Jewish Committee’s director of U.S.interreligious affairs since 2003, is set to start in his new position June 15. He succeeds Jonathan Jacoby, the founding executive director of the New York-based IPF, who resigned in…
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