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Giving The Melting Pot Its First Stir
Every so often a play comes along that not only speaks directly to the concerns of its generation — to its specific anxieties and aspirations — but also renders those concerns with such crystalline clarity that the play emblematizes its moment in time. For my generation, that play was “Angels in America.” For my parents’…
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Nobody’s Perfect
When it comes to our health, we can all be careless. Why do some of us keep smoking when we have relatives who died young from lung cancer and heart disease? Why do we eat like it’s going out of style when New York is chock-full of obese diabetics? Why are so many Sabbath tables…
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MAINE
The eighth annual Maine Jewish Film Festival returns to Portland with screenings of 21 films that relate to the Jewish experience, including Giddi Dar’s critically acclaimed Israeli drama, “Uzhpizin” (2004), and Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin’s Holocaust-themed documentary, “Paper Clips” (2004). The event is distinctive in many ways, not the least of which is the…
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WOMEN CAPTURED BY WOMEN
They are reading from prayer books, applying makeup in front of mirrors, blowing out birthday candles and standing in army uniforms, guns hanging from their shoulders. They are daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and their images are captured on film and included in Through a Jewish Woman’s Lens, an exhibition featuring the works of both established…
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Fight Over Dubai Ports Deal Is Not Ours To Lead
It is natural for the Jewish community to want to respond actively to the political firestorm over Dubai Ports World’s takeover bid, just as it was previously in regard to the controversy over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Both present an opportunity to highlight the threat posed by Islamic extremism, and the…
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Prestigious Book Prize Seeks More Popular Profile
In less than a decade, the Koret International Jewish Book Awards have earned a reputation for spotlighting excellence. The only problem is that unless you’re an aficionado of the Jewish literary scene, you’ve probably never heard of them. Now, in a dramatic shift, the backers of the awards — the San Francisco-based Koret Foundation Funds…
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White Nationalist Conference Ponders Whether Jews and Nazis Can Get Along
LETTER FROM HERNDON, VA. For the small, hardy band of right-wing Jews who attended this past weekend’s American Renaissance Conference, the biennial gathering of white nationalists ended on a sour note. The events Saturday, February 25, passed without major incident. But then, late Sunday morning, none other than former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke…
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Conservative Rabbis To Vote On Gay Issues
The top lawmaking body of Conservative Judaism is poised to vote next week on whether to overturn the movement’s ban on same-sex marriages and the ordination of openly gay clergy. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, a 25-member panel of rabbis and lay leaders, will convene next week in Maryland to revisit its 1992…
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Clash Seen Over Hard Line on Islamists
WASHINGTON — Alarmed over the victory of Hamas in Palestinian elections in January, a group of the nation’s largest Jewish organizations put aside their frequent disagreements this week and came together in a strong, unanimous call for the international community to isolate the Palestinian Authority once Hamas takes over. Even as they closed ranks around…
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Wiesenthal Center Presses Ahead With Israel Museum Over Mounting Objections
Despite growing Muslim and Jewish objections, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is moving ahead with the construction of a museum on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. The Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based institution, is building its new Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land that was historically used by Muslims as a cemetery…
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Turkish Film Pulled by German Theaters
BERLIN — In Europe’s latest entanglement over free speech, German officials and Jewish leaders are calling for a ban on a Turkish action film that demonizes Americans and Jews. On Wednesday, Cinemaxx, Germany’s largest theater chain, was the first movie house to respond, announcing that it would strike the film from its program immediately. Following…
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