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Top Lawyer on Holocaust Restitution Cases Taking Flak Over Fee Request
The most respected legal strategist in the Swiss bank dispute has come under attack from other lawyers after requesting more than $4 million in fees — a sum that would make him the highest paid attorney to work on the case. The lawyer making the request, New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, gained respect…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 13, 2006
Once again, Der Vinkl presents Stanley Siegelman, with his Yinglish and his forever startling choice of subject. Zelbik-Geschlekht Khasene Zey loyfn ale haynt “pell mell” Tsu “shidekh homosex-uel.” A man hot khasene mit a “boy” A meydl nemt als “man” a froy. As “same-sex marriage” vakst a sakh Fun vanen kumen kinderlakh? Nit kayn kind…
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Olmert Poised To Become Sharon’s Heir
TEL AVIV — As Ariel Sharon lies in a Jerusalem hospital bed, fighting for his life, no one seems more naturally positioned to take up his mantle than Ehud Olmert, his top adviser and closest political ally. Viewed through the lens of the past two stormy years, the succession seems almost inevitable. It was not…
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The Power of the Pen
When I apologized for using a plebeian ballpoint to take notes at Montblanc North America’s December 8 launch of its “Limited Edition Juilliard 100” pen, its president and CEO Jan-Patrick Schmitz, reassured me, “It’s not about the pen, but about the arts.” Schmitz added, “It was the written word that has carried arts and culture…
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Disengagement’s Architect Outlines West Bank Pullout
Ariel Sharon’s sudden exit from the political stage has raised serious questions about the future of Israel’s strategy of unilateral separation from the Palestinians. For answers, the Forward turned to the man who, perhaps more than any other, can claim to be the architect of unilateral disengagement, retired major general Uzi Dayan. Dayan, a former…
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Newsdesk January 13, 2006
Court Passes on Case The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from the American Jewish Congress to review a decision allowing Americorps teachers to teach religion in religious schools. The court did not act on the organization’s petition Monday, essentially denying them a Supreme Court review, after a federal appeals court ruled last year on…
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Shul Stabbings
A man described as a skinhead stabbed at least nine men Wednesday at a Chabad synagogue in Moscow. The incident took place just before the evening service, when the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in downtown Moscow was full of worshippers. The man, identified by police as Alexander Koptsev, 20, struck out at random before being pushed…
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Christian Donors Aid Needy Russian Jews
Christian organizations have traditionally been looked to for support of Israel, but one fund-raising organization has been putting increasing emphasis on urging evangelicals to help needy Jews in Russia. With a $2 million donation last month, the group, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, ended up supplying half as much to feed elderly Russian…
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Controversial Writer To Address Jewish GOPers
British-born muckraker Christopher Hitchens has swapped allies and enemies more than once, most recently by supporting the Iraq War and attacking its critics. Still, he appears to have scaled new heights of unpredictability with his upcoming appearance at a Republican Jewish Coalition event. Hitchens is slated to take part in a January 18 coalition-sponsored panel…
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Nonprofit Used in Lobbying Scheme
Disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff reportedly used a Jewish nonprofit organization as a conduit for money in a scheme to try to influence a top aide of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The organization, Toward Tradition, headed by South African-born Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin, received $50,000 from two Abramoff clients, which it used to hire…
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Florida Democrat Chosen To Testify at Alito Hearings
Highlighting their concerns with privacy issues, Democrats tapped a freshman congresswoman from Florida to testify Thursday at the Senate hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of two new Jewish members of the House of Representatives, was chosen by the ranking Democratic member of Senate…
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