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Is British Ish Brit?
Rabbi Samuel Silver of Boca Raton, Fla., has a short question: “Is ‘British’ related to brit?” I take it that this question is tongue in cheek. The claim that “British” comes from the Hebrew words brit (or “covenant,” familiar to many of you in its Ashkenazic form of bris, a circumcision) and ish (“man”) so…
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Taking Stock
There’s a joke about travel writers turning experiences abroad into publishable material. Spend two months in China, say, and you can write a book; spend two years, and you can write an article. But spend 20 years, and you find you can’t write anything at all. I feel the same way about the past year…
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Oldest Bat Mizvah Girl in History! (Or So We Think)
Age has not slowed Esther Eisner: She graduated from college at 90 and worked as a bookkeeper until she was 93. It seemed only fitting, then, for her family to celebrate her upcoming 100th birthday with another first: a better-late-than-never bat mitzvah. “I was sure she would say no, so she said yes,” said her…
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Once upon a time, a café in a trendy Chicago neighborhood posted a sign at child’s-eye level: “Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices when coming to A Taste of Heaven.” Offended local parents (apparently) boycotted. Other grown-ups (certainly) verbally spanked mothers who failed to control their precious little scone-hurling…
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Free Marwan Barghouti To Counter Power of Hamas
During the mid-1990s, Marwan Barghouti and his close friend Qaddoura Fares initiated a number of meetings with representatives of the Israeli peace camp. They presented themselves as people committed to turning the Oslo process into a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine by May 1999, the date that had been determined in bilateral negotiations. Barghouti…
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Clinton Gives Food For Thought — But Hold the Gluten
‘I believe every Palestinian in Europe or America is either a millionaire or a college professor,” Bill Clinton told the more than 700 attendees at the November 10 State of Israel Bonds’ Real Estate and Construction Division lunch at The Pierre. The former president, who was speaking in reference to the Palestinian diaspora’s apparent tightfistedness,…
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America, Israel Bracing for Violence From Syria
DICTATORIAL DEVOTION: A woman holds up a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration last week in Damascus. Assad is facing trouble internationally as the United Nations investigates the role of his government in the assassination of a popular former Lebanese prime minister and businessman, Rafik Hariri.
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL December 2, 2005
On the 60th yahrzeit of his death, Kazriel Broydo was featured in the columns of the Forverts devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. Broydo was the embodiment of the spirit of Vilna. He assembled and performed every song in the ghetto. His compositions spread from Vilna to virtually all the other ghettos in Eastern Europe….
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Proxy Attacks Seen as Lebanon Probe Heats Up
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and the Israeli government are preparing for a belligerent Syrian reaction to the findings of a United Nations report that is expected to accuse Damascus of masterminding the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Israeli officials are anticipating an escalation in attacks by the Syrian- and…
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Religion Spat In Air Force Becomes Issue In ’06 Election
In a sign that church-state separation debates could turn stormy next year, the controversy over religious coercion by evangelical Christian officers at the U.S. Air Force Academy is emerging as a 2006 campaign issue — for both sides. Nick Reid, a Republican congressional challenger in Wisconsin, is criticizing 36-year Democratic incumbent Rep. David Obey over…
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Calls To Monitor Pro-Arab Bias Rejected
WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights rejected calls from Jewish organizations last week for federal oversight of government-funded Middle Eastern studies programs at American universities. At a November 18 hearing devoted to the issue of antisemitism on college campuses, the commission heard from three representatives of the Jewish community who argued…
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