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Libby Played Leading Role on Foreign Policy Decisions
WASHINGTON — With the indictment and subsequent resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, the Bush administration has lost its most influential Jewish foreign-policy maker, Washington insiders say. Following the departure over the summer of top Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, no Jewish official in the administration had…
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In West Africa, a Synagogue Where the Pavement Ends
There is a road in southwestern Ghana that heads straight into the setting sun as it leaves the city of Kumasi in the direction of Ivory Coast. It is a remarkably good road, by West African standards — wide and paved and lightly traveled. Its few vehicles, for the most part, are passenger-jammed vans or…
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To Dash or Not To Dash? G-d Only Knows
A number of you have written regarding my column of two weeks ago. In it, I commented rather acerbically on the habit some Jews have of not pronouncing the names of such cities as San Diego and Saint Louis, which are named after Christian saints, and on the more widespread custom of spelling the English…
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The Joys of Fashion
Carrie Rosten is a big believer in fate, and in letting the chips fall where they may. A woman who has worn many hats in the course of her career, she has done everything from designing her own line of clothing to providing the wardrobe styling for everyone from supermodels to rock bands to Paris…
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Retrieving the Past, One Tombstone at a Time
It’s hard enough to distinguish Hebrew letters on a weathered old gravestone — all those hays that might be chets, the vavs resembling zayins and the dalets long melted into reshes. It’s even harder when the gravestone is on the other side of the world and all you have to go on is a digital…
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Bringing it all back home at Berkeley Bayit
How a Jewish co-housing community created by the Reform movement transformed the lives of California college students
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Shoah Denier Squares Off With Jewish Agency Aide
A mounting Internet feud has led to the expulsion of a public leader of the Holocaust revisionist movement from Amazon.com and triggered a slew of threatening e-mails against a Jewish communal official. The trouble started soon after Allyson Rowen Taylor, associate director of the Los Angeles office of the American Jewish Congress, ordered one of…
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Incubators of Antisemitism
Dennis Gansel’s riveting film, “Before the Fall (Napola),” sheds light on the little-known Napolas, acronym for Nazi National Political Academies — elitist ideological greenhouses with perverted curricula and barbaric military and physical training that shaped young Germans into “future gauleiters for [such anticipated Reich conquests as] London and Capetown.” It is Berlin, 1942. Against his…
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U.S. Nixes Israel-Venezuela Arms Deal
With Israel still reeling from a prolonged dispute with the White House over military cooperation with China, the Bush administration is forcing Jerusalem to freeze a major contract to upgrade Venezuela’s American-manufactured F-16 fighter jets. The Israeli Defense Ministry suggested America’s move in a statement last week, noting that “in accordance with agreements between the…
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Manhunt for ‘Last Nazi’: A Story Of New Leads or Misled Media?
The 91-year-old Heim was believed to be living out his final years on the Spanish island of Ibiza
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The Next Blockbuster Movie — Coming Soon to a Church Near You
After an opening-weekend screening of the movie “Left Behind: World at War,” a pastor stood in front of the sheet onto which the movie had been projected at Temple Jehovah Shammah. “This evening, we’d like to make an invitation,” said the pastor of the nondenominational evangelical church in the South Bronx. “If you’d like to…
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