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Bernard ‘Red’ Sarachek, Y.U. Coach
Bernard “Red” Sarachek, former Yeshiva University basketball coach, died November 14 after a long illness. He was 93. Sarachek coached the Y.U. team from 1942 to ’43 and from 1945 to ’69. He is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame and the New York City Hall of Fame. He worked…
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New Orleans Synagogues Brace for Hard Times Ahead
NEW ORLEANS — Before Hurricane Katrina hit, the Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation had $750,000 in pledges from congregants and was planning to update its 1970s-era building in suburban New Orleans. Now, nearly three months after the storm, the city’s only Conservative congregation faces a fiscal crisis and is simply hoping to survive. The synagogue suffered…
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Rabbis Slam Televangelist For Condemning a Town
The Rev. Pat Robertson is drawing criticism from rabbis of all denominational stripes for suggesting that citizens of Pennsylvania’s Dover area no longer merit God’s protection because they voted out critics of evolution. Robertson, who made his remarks during the November 10 broadcast of his daily show, “The 700 Club,” on the Christian Broadcasting Network,…
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Chabad Makes Inroads at Parley
TORONTO — Before Eliezer Zalmanov came to Munster, Ind., no Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi had ever been the recipient of the local Jewish federation’s rabbinic award. There was a Chabad rabbi before Zalmanov. However, Zalmanov, 26, said that when he moved to Munster two years ago, the rest of the community still had suspicions about his ultra-Orthodox…
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Federations Fail To Attract New Wealth
TORONTO — Local Jewish charitable federations have long seen themselves as the central address for Jewish giving, but their dominant status is in jeopardy, judging from the buzz in the halls and on the podiums at the annual General Assembly of United Jewish Communities. This past Sunday afternoon, participants in the annual event were set…
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L.A. Rabbi Eyed As Conservative Seminary Head
Support is mounting for a prominent pulpit rabbi from Los Angeles to become the next chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, after he delivered an enthusiastically received speech last week on the future of Conservative Judaism. Rabbi David Wolpe, the charismatic leader of one the country’s largest congregations, L.A.’s Sinai Temple, urged his audience at…
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November 18, 2005
Omri Sharon Pleads Guilty Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s son, Omri, pleaded guilty in a Likud Party funding scandal. The younger Sharon could face imprisonment as part of the plea bargain reached Tuesday. He accepted reduced felony charges of perjury and fraud in connection with allegedly illicit foreign financing for his father’s 1999 run for the…
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New Labor Chief Upends Israeli Politics
TEL AVIV — Surging out of the gate after his upset win in last week’s Labor Party leadership primary, union firebrand Amir Peretz scored a rapid series of tactical victories this week and appeared poised to remake Israeli politics into a competitive sport for the first time in years. Peretz, 53, a political maverick who…
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A Custodian Of Memories
One day, to enhance his act, a peg-legged tightrope walker balanced a small iron cooking stove on his back. During one ill-fated performance, the high wire snapped and the performer fell to the ground, mortally wounded. A priest administered the last rites, then leaned down to catch the man’s dying words. The acrobat gasped, “But…
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Heed the Lesson of Nuremberg: Let No Nation Be Above the Law
“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow,” Chief Justice Robert Jackson warned at the opening session of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, on November 20, 1945. “To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to…
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Exploring Pre-teen Angst — From the Shopping Mall to the Bimah
When you’re 12 going on 13, everything feels just so serious. Stacy Friedman, the protagonist of Fiona Rosenbloom’s young adult novel “You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” (Hyperion), has an accessory bag full of problems standing in the way of having an absolutely perfect life. Her parents’ marriage is on the fritz,…
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