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Study Finds Most Bombers Are Educated
WASHINGTON — Most of the Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked Israeli targets in the past five years were either high school or college graduates, and came from relatively less impoverished communities in the northern West Bank, according to a recent study. The study, released this month by an Israeli think tank, looked at the 163…
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Jacob Waisbord, 91, Yiddish Copy Editor
OBITUARY Jacob Waisbord, Holocaust survivor and member of the Forward Association, died December 21. He was 91. Waisbord, whose entire family perished during World War II, fled his native Poland, where he had been a student of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. He came to the United States on a visa from the Jewish Labor Committee that…
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Workmen’s Circle Officer Sylvia Klein
OBITUARY Sylvia Klein, a 70-year member of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, died December 21. She was 88. Klein’s involvement with the Workmen’s Circle began as a student and camper. She served several terms on the organization’s national executive board and was chair of its national education committee. Klein also recorded a stint as its national…
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Palestinian Envoy Brings New Strategy to Washington
WASHINGTON — For many years, pro-Israel activists in the nation’s capital have had it relatively easy, thanks to the failure of the Palestinians to organize an effective lobby or to station an effective spokesman in the United States. But the fight just got tougher, with the recent appointment of Afif Safieh — one of the…
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Congress Approves School Voucher Bill
Opponents of school vouchers usually have Senator Ted Kennedy in their corner, but the groups found themselves at odds with the Massachusetts Democrat over a new hurricane relief program that will provide funding to private schools. With Kennedy’s sponsorship, Congress approved legislation last week that will provide $1.6 billion in funding to schools and colleges…
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Vandals Target Synagogue, Public Hanukkah Displays
Vandals desecrated public Hanukkah displays in four municipalities across the country, while leaving adjacent Christmas displays untouched. And in Canada, Beth Shalom Synagogue in Edmonton, Alberta, was spray-painted with antisemitic graffiti — including a swastika — on Christmas Eve. Between December 13 and December 24, menorah displays in Philadelphia; Orange County, Calif., and the hamlets…
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Orthodox Rabbi Sued by Former Congregant
A former congregant has filed a lawsuit against Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, the religious leader of an Orthodox congregation in Monsey, N.Y., accusing him of giving her “sex therapy” when she went to him for counseling. In the lawsuit, which was filed December 20 in Manhattan and reported December 25 in the New York Post, Adina…
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Newsdesk December 30, 2005
Mossad Eyes Iranian Bomb The head of the Mossad said that Iran is trying to develop more than one nuclear weapon. “The concern is that if they manage to acquire the bomb, they will not make do with the fissile materials required for one, but will go on producing larger amounts,” Meir Dagan told the…
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Pit of Ignorance
llan Levine from Manhattan writes: “Whenever I meet someone who is, or claims to be, fluent in Yiddish, I give him or her a test. I ask, ‘How do you say “armpit” in Yiddish?’ Over many years, I have yet to receive a correct answer to this question, even from people whose first language was…
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Paradise Found: Kosher Cruises Chart a New Course
The sight of Hasidic singing sensation Mordechai Ben David singing his smash hit “Mashiach” live aboard a luxury cruise ship in Alaska is an incongruous one. And yet, the song’s redemptive hope is somehow a fitting anthem for exploring the state that promotes itself as America’s final frontier. The majestic wildlife, virgin forests and pristine…
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Bible Guide For Public Schools Gets Jewish Okay
In an effort to neutralize the growing popularity of a right-wing Bible textbook for public schools, two major Jewish organizations are backing an alternative study guide. But some liberal watchdogs warn that the alternative textbook also could lead teachers to violate the separation of church and state. The new textbook, “The Bible and Its Influence,”…
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