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The Best Children’s Books of the Year
The best Hanukkah gift is a book. Some people may think the best Hanukkah gift is Disney Princess Lip Gloss Necklace and/or a pony, but these people are not old enough to have folding money. Now, I could tell you about my favorite picture books published this year. But who cares what I think? The…
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Al Qaeda Establishing Base in Gaza
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda operatives are establishing a base in Gaza for launching attacks against Israel and neighboring pro-American Arab regimes, current and former Israeli security officials say. Officials in Jerusalem and Washington are following this development with concern, Israeli and American sources said. They see the move as part of Al Qaeda’s long-term plan…
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A Slice of History (With Mustard on Rye)
On a recent Saturday afternoon, I hopped off a downtown bus and onto the sidewalk of East Houston Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, braced against the cold wind and early brunch crowds trolling the area’s crop of relatively new boutique cafés. And then, in the distance, I saw it: Katz’s Delicatessen — its sign…
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Police Appear Handcuffed As Mob Feud Rages in Israel
JERUSALEM — The anti-crime division of Israel’s national police was under pressure to produce answers this week after a Netanya neighborhood was hit by an anti-tank missile apparently aimed at a reputed organized-crime boss. No one was hurt in the December 22 missile attack, which left a large crater in the street outside the home…
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Death Row Inmate Campaigns Against Alito’s Nomination to Court
You might think Antuan “Tony” Bronshtein would be grateful to Judge Samuel A. Alito, President Bush’s nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. After all, Bronshtein, a convicted killer and Pennsylvania death row inmate, has a new lease on life, at least temporarily, thanks to Alito’s controversial decision as a…
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Little Houses of Worship on the Prairie, Dwindling and Divided
The dwindling community of Jews in this small prairie city is split into two camps, with only one 81-year-old woman attempting to bridge the gap. Dorathea Polski spends her Friday nights moving between two religious services at St. Joseph’s two synagogues, praying and pushing for the two to finally merge. Polski starts with a 5:30…
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Israel Moves To Create ‘Buffer Zone’ Following Gazan Rocket Fire
TEL AVIV — Responding to the latest barrage of Palestinian Qassam rockets fired, mostly harmlessly, on Ashkelon and its environs, Israel this week “bombarded” Gaza with fliers warning residents not to enter the zone from which the rockets were launched. The firing zone at Gaza’s northern edge, formerly housing the settlements of Dugit and Nisanit,…
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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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