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Wayne Firestone
WAYNE FIRESTONE Pro-Israel students on campus made major news this year with their complaints about anti-Israel bias in the classroom. The man connecting all the dots behind the scenes was Wayne Firestone, the director of the Israel on Campus Coalition. The battles reached their apogee at Columbia University, where a few students went to the…
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Federal Authorities Probe Jailhouse Murder of Jewish Extremist
Almost immediately after Jewish extremist Earl Krugel was bludgeoned to death in an Arizona prison, his allies began describing him as the latest in a string of Jewish Defense League officials to be targeted for assassination. Federal authorities investigating Krugel’s death, however, said they do not know whether he was murdered because of his extremist…
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Helen Freedman
Helen Freedman If the opponents of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan didn’t derail anything, the failure can’t be blamed on Helen Freedman. Freedman, the tireless executive director of Americans For a Safe Israel, was practically a one-woman opposition movement this past spring and summer. She organized rallies, wrote press releases, organized missions to Israel and the…
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Palestinians Lobby White House To Press Israel on Arab Voting in Jerusalem
WASHINGTON — Claiming that Israel plans to obstruct Palestinian voting in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority is urging the Bush administration and European governments to pressure Israel to permit unrestricted participation of Jerusalem Arab voters in the upcoming Palestinians elections. At issue, Palestinian officials said, are about 120,000 residents of East Jerusalem who do not…
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Sharon Brous Naomi Levy
SHARON BROUS NAOMI LEVY While the institutional leaders of Conservative Judaism struggle to find a compelling message and arrest their movement’s decline, a handful of young Conservative-trained rabbis are finding their own ways to revitalize the broad middle of Judaism between Reform and Orthodoxy. We could have chosen some senior rabbis working imaginatively in the…
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Naftali Neuberger, Led Famed Baltimore Seminary
The voice on the phone several years back could have belonged only to one of two people, and I really had no reason to imagine that Henry Kissinger would be calling me. To my greater honor, the caller was Rabbi Naftali (Herman) Neuberger, president of Baltimore’s Ner Israel Rabbinical College (where I studied in the…
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Jessica Coen And Jesse Oxfeld
JESSICA COEN AND JESSE OXFELD Gawker.com may describe itself officially as “the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip,” but read deeper and you’ll quickly figure out that Jews, media and sex — which the Web site’s editors call “the Holy Trinity of our existence” — is a more accurate list of its preoccupations….
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Ideological Rifts Threaten Sharon’s Political Coalition
Prime Minister Sharon was dealt a stinging defeat this week when eight members of his own Likud Party joined the opposition Monday to block the appointment of two of his ministerial appointments. The defeat raised the prospect of early elections. Eight Likud members — including Sharon’s top party rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposed the Gaza…
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What Little I Know About Medicine
I thought I would title this month’s column “What I Don’t Know About Medicine,” but my editors want 800 words, not an encyclopedia. What I do know about medicine should fit nicely into the space allotted. The rotation I’m starting this week is known in hospital jargon as the sub-internship; the registrar’s office calls it…
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Florida School Board To Keep Religious Holidays
Following a firestorm of criticism, a Florida school board voted Monday to abandon its plan to drop all religious holidays except for Christmas from the school calendar. The Hillsborough school board, representing a district that includes Tampa and surrounding suburbs, scrapped its plan to keep classrooms open on Yom Kippur, Good Friday and the Monday…
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Haplessly Turning the Tables on a Poker Ace
the hapless jewish writer once lost $50 in less than five minutes, playing texas hold’em. The loss occurred at a somewhat sketchy underground poker room that was run by Orthodox Jews in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and featured free punch and Hydrox cookies. The HJW asked for $50 in poker chips (the lowest…
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