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Archives Are a Communal Attic, Unglamorous But Vital
On this page last week, opinion writer Tom Freudenheim expressed dismay that the American Jewish Historical Society agreed to sell its six colonial-era Levy-Franks family portraits to a national, non-Jewish museum and blamed the society’s trustees for callously selling off the American Jewish people’s “patrimony” (“Stop Communal Institutions From Selling Off Our Heritage,” January 13)….
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THROW THIS OUT
Edited and hosted by Boris Sandler. You can also hear our radio magazine on the Internet at http://yiddish.forward.com/radio.
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THROW THIS OUT
Edited and hosted by Boris Sandler. You can also hear our radio magazine on the Internet at http://yiddish.forward.com/radio.
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THROW THIS OUT
Edited and hosted by Boris Sandler. You can also hear our radio magazine on the Internet at http://yiddish.forward.com/radio.
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THROW THIS OUT
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Palestinians 1100 U.S. Mulls Response to Hamas Victory
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is telling foreign diplomats in Washington that the United States might significantly scale back its involvement in the peace process and curtail its relations with the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic militant group Hamas wins next week’s Palestinian parliamentary elections or becomes a key force in a Palestinian government. The…
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Agencies Weighing New Court Strategy
The expected confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito is prompting Jewish organizations to re-examine their strategy of bringing cases involving church-state separation and other civil rights matters to the Supreme Court. Officials at several Jewish agencies, including the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,…
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Shabbat Shalom
Berel Lang of Wesleyan University writes to ask if I would “consider tracing the genealogy of the Hebrew Sabbath greeting ‘Shabbat Shalom’ — specifically, when it entered popular discourse.” And he continues: “My hunch is that it is a) modern and b) secular, that is, deriving from the generally nonreligious world of Zionist pioneers in…
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