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Dating History
The new Jewish year of 5766 that began this week will be called in Hebrew “Tashsav,” after the four letters, e-q-y-z, whose numerical equivalent is 766. (z in Hebrew numerology equals 400; y, 300; q, 60; and e, 6 — the remaining 5,000 generally being unexpressed, although it can be indicated by putting the letter…
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Resetting the Spiritual Clock
I’ve been getting up at five in the morning for the past two months. It would be nice if this new schedule granted me some insight into the human condition or the plight of the sick, but my observations are on a smaller scale. A lot more people than you might think are up that…
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Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth Everybody
As a mom, and as a person of faith, I’m struggling to figure out what to tell Josie about Hurricane Katrina. Throughout the year, but especially around the High Holy Days, we ponder life and death, justice and mercy. Katrina — the hurricane and the human response to it — gives those issues special immediacy….
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From a Flatbush Boy Whose Teacher Has Told Him Goodbye
He was a new teacher, not yet 30, and I was a student, barely 17, when we first talked. I never sat in his classroom; we met in the very non-teacherly environment of Model U.N., for which he enthusiastically led our school’s delegation. But from the moment I met him, Rabbi Alan Stadtmauer became one…
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Before We Begin, Let Us All Reach Into Our Pockets
Of all the cultural practices associated with American Jews, the Kol Nidre appeal, I used to think, has got to be among the most ill-considered, let alone poorly timed, of rituals. No sooner do American Jews, most of whom have not set foot inside a synagogue since the previous Yom Kippur, take their seats, than…
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Houston Jews Feeling Mixed On Indictment Of Tom DeLay
As national Democrats express glee at the troubles of Rep. Tom DeLay, Texas Jews are greeting his problems with mixed emotions. DeLay, the Republican from Sugar Land, Texas, who was forced to step down as House majority leader last week because of an indictment on a campaign finance charge, counts both staunch friends and foes…
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Celebrating a Medical Landmark
“We are seeing a struggle between those who value science wherever it leads… and those who truly would like to turn the clock back,” Senator Hillary Clinton said. Clinton was the keynote speaker at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine 50th Anniversary Gala, held September 18 at The Waldorf-Astoria. “I’m worried that there are…
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Israel Miffed Over Lingering China Flap
Israeli officials are becoming more and more irritated –– despite repeated concessions and a formal agreement between Washington and Jerusalem –– by their inability to end their dispute with the Bush administration over Israeli arms sales to China, a top Israeli political figure told the Forward this week. “There was a series of mistakes, but…
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Out of Jail, Mob Fall Guy Pines For a Shul and Some Shellfish
When Barry Gibbs walked out of the Eastern Correctional Facility in upstate New York last week after serving more than 17 years of a life sentence for a murder that authorities now believe he didn’t commit, the 57-year-old former postal worker admitted to wanting two things. He didn’t ask for revenge against Louis Eppolito, the…
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Arabs Protest as Probe of Deaths Is Dropped
TEL AVIV — Israeli police and justice officials were fighting this week to prevent a full-scale crisis of confidence with the Israeli Arab community, after a police investigation decided not to bring any charges in the October 2000 police shootings that left 12 Israeli Arabs dead. The decision by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department,…
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Holocaust Lawyer Fights Accusation He Hired Underage Austrian Hooker
A prominent Holocaust restitution lawyer, Ed Fagan, is planning a trip to Austria to defend himself against published accusations that he hired an underage prostitute. Several Austrian publications have reported that the state prosecutor in Vienna is looking into contacts that Fagan and other individuals allegedly had with a prostitution ring that involved underage girls…
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