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Sukkot: From Humble to Inspired
My father spent his career building houses in New York’s Levittown, Long Island, condos in Sarasota, Fla. — and sukkot for our family. They weren’t elaborate affairs — just your basic frame construction of two-by-fours covered in translucent plastic. But as a child I always was proud of our home-designed and home-built sukkah, which rested…
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E.U. Bids Big on Palestinians, But Hamas Card Still Unplayed
FORWARD FORUM The European Union gave more than 2 billion euros in aid to the Palestinian Authority during the 1990s. A lot of the funds were stolen or wasted, and what the rest of them bought — including an airport, a port and dozens of public buildings — went up in flames after the second…
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Recalling the Desert While Wrapped In Goose-down
In recent years, when neighborhood kids gathered for an annual sukkah hop in Brookline, Mass., they started at one of the neighborhood’s crown jewels: a stately, wooden specimen, invincible in the face of New England wind and cold, belonging to Debbie and Mark Blechner. Each year for 27 years, the Blechners have rebuilt the sturdy…
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In Defending Court Pick, Backers Cite Miers’s Faith
As the Bush administration scrambles to counter conservative opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, White House allies are citing her membership in an evangelical Christian church as a key credential. Many conservatives have attacked the selection of Miers, currently White House counsel, as Supreme Court nominee, saying she lacks experience in constitutional…
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Creole Matzo Balls and Other Southern Treats
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South By Marcie Cohen Ferris The University of North Carolina Press, 344 pages, $29.95. * * *| Like the gumbo of its title, Marcie Cohen Ferris’s new book offers a rich stew to savor. In this case, that’s an entirely satisfying mix of Jewish American history, personal…
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As Episcopalians Reject Divestment, Groups See a Threat to Israel Ebbing
The Episcopal Church of America voted this week to reject any campaign to divest from Israel, leading many Jewish organizations to claim that they had successfully beaten back the threat of a broad, liberal Protestant boycott. The executive board of the Episcopal Church unanimously endorsed a report stating that “nothing positive” would come from using…
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Walesa Reminisces at the 92nd Street Y
‘Communism fits Poland like a saddle on a pig,” Lech Walesa said in a September 28 conversation with James F. Hoge Jr., editor of the journal Foreign Affairs. Their talk was held at the 92nd Street Y in honor of the 25th anniversary of Poland’s Solidarity movement. A white-haired, avuncular Walesa peppered his comments with…
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African Deaths Spark Debate In Europe Over Immigration
Europe has been plunged into a furious new debate over immigration policies and the effects of global poverty, after being stunned by scenes of desperate Africans trying to overrun a barbed-wire fence to reach European territory. On two occasions in the past two weeks, groups of hundreds of Africans tried to storm the razor-wire fences…
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Sukkot in Colder Climes
At Brooklyn’s Sukkah Depot, “business is booming” for those who want to buy what is billed as the “Rolls Royce of Sukkahs,” according to customer service representative Dovid Efune. The pre-fabricated sukkah is made out of laminated, pressed-wooden panels with an aluminum frame, and it’s 100% waterproof. It also has rubber seals that cover the…
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Shooting Halts Services At Chabad Shul in Boca
A near-fatal shooting halted Rosh Hashanah services at a Florida synagogue last week, leaving one worshipper with three broken ribs and a collapsed lung and another in jail without bond. Marc Benayer, 79, was arrested October 4 after allegedly shooting Jonathan Samuels, 44, outside the Chabad Weltman Synagogue in Boca Raton on the first day…
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The Yom Kippur Pedicure
How can it be, you might ask, that such a travesty came to pass? How is it, I mean, that a woman like me, born and bred of preening Orthodox German-Jewish stock, came one evening two years ago to usher in Yom Kippur, the Holiest of Holy Days, in the most faithless way imaginable: by…
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