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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 24, 2006
On the 40th yahrzeit of poet Nokhem Yud (1887-1966), the Forverts devoted its column Pearls of Yiddish Poetry to this prolific and profound writer. His collective works filled 700 pages. One of his favorite subjects was Don Quixote, the “Man of La Mancha.” What follows is his poem on Quixote, transliterated into the Roman alphabet…
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Scholars’ Attack on Pro-Israel Lobby Met With Silence
WASHINGTON — In the face of one of the harshest reports on the pro-Israel lobby to emerge from academia, Jewish organizations are holding fire in order to avoid generating publicity for their critics. Officials at Jewish organizations are furious over “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” a new paper by John Mearsheimer, a top…
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Kill Me the Geese
We were seated, full from a sumptuous meal, around a dinner table: My wife and I, a retired professor of Russian literature and his wife, several other guests and our hosts. Two of the guests were having a political argument. “Koyl mir di genz,” one of them said. “What does that mean?” I asked. That…
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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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Say ‘No’ to Warmongering
If one more person says the words “Mommy Wars” to me I will clock them with a bottle of Enjoli. While I will not deny that there are women who judge other women’s choices and find them wanting (and these women, when they were girls, sauntered by your table in the lunchroom and said, “No…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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