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Anti-Jewish Books At Frankfurt Fair
BERLIN — English copies of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” were displayed on the shelves of one of the Iranian booksellers at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, according to German political scientist Matthias Küntzel, who purchased the books there last week. Fair organizers said that they could…
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Union, Jewish Groups Unite To Help Low-wage Workers
An ad hoc coalition of liberal Jewish organizations is teaming up with a national labor union in order to promote social justice for low-wage workers in eight cities, after the success of a similar partnership in Los Angeles. The coalition — comprising groups in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and…
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Newsdesk October 28, 2005
Satmar Holiday Melee Erupts A riot broke out at a Satmar synagogue in Brooklyn Tuesday, forcing police to order up to 1,000 worshippers to cut short prayers on Shmini Atzeret. The melee, at the Yetev Lev Bikur Cholim synagogue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, included punches, slaps and beard pulling, according to the New…
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Muslim Group Slams Appointment of Canadian Jews
TORONTO — The Canadian Islamic Congress is criticizing the appointment of two prominent Jewish men to important federal posts, describing them as “bad news” for Muslims. The Islamic Congress, the most prominent organization claiming to represent Canada’s 750,000-person Muslim community, is objecting to the appointments of Leo Kolber, 76, and Jonathan Schneiderman, 43. Kolber, a…
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In West Africa, a Synagogue Where the Pavement Ends
There is a road in southwestern Ghana that heads straight into the setting sun as it leaves the city of Kumasi in the direction of Ivory Coast. It is a remarkably good road, by West African standards — wide and paved and lightly traveled. Its few vehicles, for the most part, are passenger-jammed vans or…
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Dancing Around a Delicate Issue
‘Joy shatters barriers,” says a well-known Jewish aphorism. It’s a phrase that many Orthodox synagogues will take literally Tuesday evening with the beginning of Simchat Torah, one of the Jewish calendar’s most joyous days. When the yearlong Torah-reading cycle comes to a close, all Orthodox congregations will dance with their Torahs. But some will do…
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School Days
Each fall, I write a column about Josie’s education. But you can trace my own education from autumn to autumn. In 2002, when Josie was almost 1, I wrote mockingly about neurotic, hypercompetitive parents who actually would engage in insider trading to get their kids into the 92nd Street Y’s preschool. In 2003, when Josie…
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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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