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Beware of Stem-cell Foes Putting Scientific Method Under Microscope
It is often said that science is racing far ahead of our ethics. But bending science to try and meet ethical concerns is not the way to catch up. That is exactly what happened recently when two articles appeared in the prestigious British scientific journal Nature, touting “alternative” approaches to finding sources of stem cells…
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Signed, Stuffed, Delivered: Food and the Divine Decree
Hoshanah Rabah, the seventh day of Sukkot (which falls this year on Monday, October 24), is regarded as the day on which the divine decree decided on Yom Kippur is sealed. For many, the day’s significance is translated into culinary terms. For example, it is customary in some quarters to eat stuffed foods such as…
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Ex-officials Push Engagement With Hamas, Hezbollah
Bucking American and Israeli policy, a group of former senior American and British officials steeped in Middle East affairs have been conducting a dialogue with Hamas and Hezbollah in an attempt to bring the two militant Islamic groups into the democratic fold. The former Western officials have held two meetings in Lebanon in recent months…
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‘Fiddler’ Director Tells All
‘For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a Jew,” writes film director-writer-producer Norman Jewison in his just-published autobiography, “This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me” (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press). “When I was 6, I started going to the Kenilworth synagogue, in the Beach area of Toronto, with my…
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Poverty and Crime Rates Reveal Israel’s Failure To Absorb Ethiopian Immigrants
TEL AVIV — Following a wave of violent incidents, political controversies and alarming sociological findings regarding the poverty-plagued immigrant community, Prime Minister Sharon has agreed to head up a campaign to boost public support for Ethiopian Israelis. The campaign, which is being organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, is set to launch next month….
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Anti-war Activists Call on Reform
Jewish anti-war activists are launching a major campaign to get the country’s largest synagogue movement to come out against the Iraq War. The campaign was announced to followers Monday in an e-mail from Rabbi Arthur Waskow, head of the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center. Waskow, a leading Jewish anti-war activist, announced that his organization was attempting to…
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Washington Caterer Sued Over Nonkosher Banquet
Among wedding faux pas, serving shrimp to your kashrut-observant in-laws ranks pretty high. But that is exactly what happened during a wedding in Washington, according to a lawsuit recently filed in U.S. District Court by Mark and Judy Siegel. The couple’s daughter, Rebecca Siegel Baron, married Craig Baron in an April 2 ceremony at the…
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Hasidic Village Keeps Women Out of the Driver’s Seat
Even as the White House presses Saudi Arabia to permit women to drive, an ultra-Orthodox community in New York has launched a campaign to reassert its ban on female motorists. During her trip last month to Saudi Arabia, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes delivered a speech in which she stressed the Bush administration’s determination to…
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After Katrina, Rabbi’s Future Uncertain
A leading Orthodox outreach group has issued an urgent fund-raising plea to support a displaced rabbi whom it claims “no longer has a synagogue or a home to return to.” Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish outreach group that is the American arm of an Israeli yeshiva, sent out a mass October 7 e-mail appeal on…
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Newsdesk October 14, 2005
Suicide Report in Syria Syria’s official news agency has reported that the country’s interior minister, Ghazi Kenaan, committed suicide Wednesday. The announcement concerning Kenaan, who ran Lebanon as security chief until 2003, came just days before the expected release of a United Nations report on the assassination of a former Lebanese leader. “Interior Minister Brigadier…
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Game Theorist Wins Nobel Prize
Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yitzhak Robert Aumann, 75, was named co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Aumann, an Israeli, was awarded the prize along with the University of Maryland’s Thomas Schelling, 84, in recognition of his work on game theory, the science of…
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