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Jewish Legislators Build International Network
JERUSALEM — “I’ve been coming to Israel every year since 1983,” said Rep. Gary Ackerman, a New York Democrat, “and every time, people say, ‘You’ve come at an interesting time.’” That was never truer than this year. Ackerman came here last week to take part in the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, a loose association…
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Hebron Declared Closed Area As Settlers Clash With Troops
TEL AVIV — Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seemingly determined to dispel doubts about his ability to take up the leadership mantle of Ariel Sharon, vowed this week to act firmly against violence by West Bank settlers and to evacuate illegal squatters. His comments came shortly after the army took the unprecedented step of imposing…
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Israel’s ‘Mystical City’ Opens Its Doors to Outsiders
The bus ride from Jerusalem to Tsfat takes three hours… but it can be a long three hours. On my most recent trip to the mystical city — a former backwater that, in the 16th century, became the most important center for Kabbalah in the world — I was stuck in the back of the…
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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
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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Support Builds for U.N. To Take Up Iran Nukes
As the United States and its European allies work to win Russian, Chinese and Indian support for referring Iran to the United Nations Security Council, Israel and Jewish organizations also are working to turn up the heat on the Islamic republic. In an effort to convince Western governments to ratchet up their pressure on Iran,…
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Six Million Little Pieces?
Days after Oprah Winfrey’s last Book Club selection was unmasked as fraud, triggering a national conversation among literati and lay readers alike about the definition and significance of memoir, the talk show host and cultural arbiter announced her next choice: “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s seminal autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel is, of…
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