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Wiesenthal Center Honors Murdoch
‘We’re both from Down Under,” statuesque Nicole Kidman said as she presented the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Laureate Award — a shofar inscribed, “He who helps mankind” — to Rupert Murdoch at the center’s January 11 dinner, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. “No other person… is able to touch so many people of this world,” Kidman…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
The budget reconciliation package that was expected to pass the House of Representatives on Wednesday contains a measure that could spell disaster for Jewish community-run nursing homes, Jewish communal officials said. Under the Republican proposal, seniors who have transferred assets to relatives would be barred from Medicaid coverage of their nursing home bills for a…
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U.S. Pursues Diplomacy on Iran Nukes
Two leading conservative groups are urging the Bush administration to adopt a policy of regime change in Iran as the diplomatic brinksmanship game between Tehran and Western countries escalates in the run-up to a crucial meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency early next month. The Committee on the Present Danger issued a policy paper…
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Abbas ‘Ready To Negotiate’ After Vote
JERUSALEM — A poll released on Israel’s Channel Two television Wednesday evening showed the ruling Fatah party winning 43% of the vote and Hamas 32% in the elections for the Palestinian parliament. A strong showing by Hamas in the election raised the possibility that the Islamic militant group, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction but…
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Democratic Group Urges Bush To Cut Off Ties to Evangelist’s Charity
Citing what it called Pat Robertson’s “hateful and divisive rhetoric,” a Jewish Democratic group is demanding that the Bush administration cut off government grants to the evangelist’s charity, Operation Blessing. The National Jewish Democratic Council made the plea in an online advocacy campaign launched this week, which includes a petition and links to send electronic…
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Conservative Group Stays Mum on Alito
WASHINGTON — Following a wave of internal criticism over its endorsement of John Roberts for Supreme Court Chief Justice, the union of Conservative synagogues has adopted a new “charter” to guide its public policy decisions, including a policy of avoiding positions on future nominations. The union is sitting out the fight over President Bush’s latest…
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Weaving Together a Family’s History, One Thread at a Time
Your life is like a Tapestry Being Woven by G-d and History On an Enchanted Loom. Every Bobble of the shuttle has meaning; Every thread is important. — Richard Nelson Bolles (b.1927) I am sitting in the weaving room of the Jewish Community Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Outside, the Susquehanna River is rolling past, deep…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad…Well, Everything? Comforting Your Child Is a Challenge When Even ‘Sesame Street’ Can Cause Anxiety Attacks
Maxine, now 15 months old, has worked through her irrational fear of the stuffed Eeyore, the little wooden incense holder and “Harvey Nagila,” the battery-operated, clap-activated, dancing Hasid. (I, however, am still afraid of Harvey.) But Josie, age 4, is going through an anxious time. Music in a minor key, such as “Peter and the…
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Munich Revisited: Where Spielberg’s Movie Went Astray
Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” is not a bad action film. It tells an intense and haunting story of a man whose willingness to kill for his country engenders a personal dilemma regarding the efficacy of violence, even justified violence, as a response to terrorism. But it also badly distorts the circumstances under which Israeli intelligence operatives…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 27, 2006
“Songs of Generations: New Pearls of Yiddish Songs” is one of several compendia of Yiddish songs edited by Eleanor and Joseph Mlotek. What follows is a folk song titled “Ikh Bin Shoyn a Meydl in Di Yorn.” Among the obstacles to getting married are two roadblocks — a dowry and yikhes. What follows are the…
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At Israeli Outpost, Showdown Looms for Settlers, Government
AMONA — In the dark, the houses look like nine small, identical boxes — flat topped, faced in stone, windows shuttered — that have been dropped on the rocky, unpaved lots cut at the end of the ridge. Jerusalem, to the south, is a carpet of lights spread along the horizon. Behind the houses, the…
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