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Defense Chief Calls for Second Disengagement
TEL AVIV — Barely 48 hours after the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections — a victory that no Israeli intelligence agency foresaw — the government in Jerusalem had replaced its initial shock with a “wait and see” attitude. The prevailing tone was that in the end, something good might come out of…
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Welcoming the Angels
Forward reader Gilad J. Gevaryahu has written to tell me that my discussion of the Sabbath greeting “shabbat shalom” in this column two weeks ago was scooped. A many-sided correspondence regarding this greeting, Mr. Gevaryahu informs me, can be found in “Mail.Jewish” (featured on www.ottmall.com, a site devoted to halachic issues). It appears in Volume…
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Cartoons of Prophet Spark Boycott by Arabs
Denmark has become, much to its tolerant citizens’ bewilderment, the target of an international Muslim boycott, in protest of what international Muslim groups call Denmark’s “aggressive campaign waged against Islam and its prophet.” “Boycott” actually understates the case. In the past week alone, crowds of angry Muslims in several Arab countries burned the Danish flag,…
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Medicine mensch Nau vere bona tratoj So…? How Are Things?
Do you like to talk to other people? Sometimes I do; it depends how many there are. If I’m at a party, I slink toward the chips and-salsa or talk only to my wife. (Wallflowers don’t blossom; they just climb farther up the wall.) If I’m talking to a friend of mine, it can take…
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N.Y. Probe of Charity Cites Mismanagement
A long-awaited report from the New York State Attorney General’s Office outlines serious financial mismanagement at the World Jewish Congress, including hundreds of thousands dollars of improper payments and loans to its former chairman and secretary-general, Rabbi Israel Singer. The report constitutes an agreement, signed by representatives of the WJC and the Attorney General’s Office…
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Talk About a Bruising Confirmation
If you happened to find the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings somewhat contentious, you might be surprised to learn that they had nothing on the furor that, 90 years ago in January 1916, greeted President Wilson’s nomination of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the highest court in the land. The president’s selection of the Boston lawyer…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON — While President Bush touted his plans for fighting terrorism and advancing Middle East democracy in his State of the Union address this week, Israel’s allies here were working hard behind the scenes to prevent what they fear will be attempts to soften the administration’s stance in the months ahead. At the center of…
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Fast Forward Listening for the 1950s, Keeping an Eye Out For Kitsch
Scrounging through flea markets, rummage sales and shipments from generous grandparents, Josh Kun and Roger Bennett are on a mission to save one of America’s disappearing treasures: mid-century Jewish record album covers. Operating under the collective pseudonym “Hippocampus,” Kun and Bennett are seeking to preserve for posterity such rare and valuable specimens as “Mambo Moish”…
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Playwright Braved Dangerous Territory, Armed With Humor
APPRECIATION Mrs. Plumm, the dotty yet dignified housemother of a New England women’s college dormitory in Wendy Wasserstein’s early play “Uncommon Women and Others,” welcomes her charges to tea by reciting a poem by Emily Dickinson. “The Heart is the Capital of the Mind,” she intones. “The Mind is a single State. /The Heart and…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 3, 2006
The pages of the Forverts devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry recently featured Yankl Yankelovitch (1905-1938). His early death was no accident; Yankelovitch was a victim of Stalin’s campaign against Jewish intellectuals. What follows is the text of a poem that Yankelovitch wrote when he visited his mother’s tomb. The transliteration is by Goldie Gold….
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Preserve Historic Sites Before Roof Falls in Again on Communal Heritage
The sudden collapse last week of the ceiling at the historic First Roumanian-American Congregation in New York should serve as a wake-up call to American Jews concerned with the preservation of their own heritage. Indeed, even before the roof fell in on the landmark Lower East Side synagogue, it was puzzling why historic preservation in…
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