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Fly Me to The Moon
It’s like one of those logic problems from the SAT: Travel with children is hell. Travel in this age of attractively color-coded terrorism alerts is hell. Therefore, travel with children in the age of attractively color-coded terrorism alerts is a special total-mega googolplex super-hell, much like the process of reading a Bret Easton Ellis novel…
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Reuniting, for The First Time
For several years, I had been working on a series of short stories about Jews in various states of exile: Eastern European Jews in America, New York Jews in Florida, Russian Jews in New England, Israeli Jews in New York, American Jews in Germany, Holocaust survivors in the Catskill Mountains. In writing these stories, I…
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Synagogue Group Backs John Roberts Nomination
WASHINGTON — As liberal organizations struggle to line up Jewish support for an advertising campaign to block the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, the country’s second-largest synagogue movement has declared him “qualified” for the job. Leaders of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism sent a letter Monday to Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican…
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Needlework Circle Knits Together Women of All Stripes
Before stretching squares of batting and fabric through her wooden quilting hoop, Miriam K. Sokoloff loads a needle with rose-colored thread and twists a knot on the end. She reaches across Judith Solomont, who is busy reducing old blue jeans to denim disks the size of dinner plates, and hands the needle to Reva Katz,…
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Sharon Hailed, But Faces Party Revolt
WASHINGTON — Fresh off the rapid dismantling of 25 Jewish settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon appears to be picking up political and diplomatic steam on several fronts. Israeli diplomats and Jewish activists in Washington say that Sharon’s government has been assured by the White House that the Bush administration will not pressure Jerusalem into additional…
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Blogs Offer Glimpse Into Hidden Corners of Orthodox Life
The blogger known as Nice Jewish Girl is a successful woman in her 30s. Like countless other single women who have Web journals, she writes about men, sex and marriage: her vibrator, her ex-boyfriends, her crush on the cute WASPy guy in her office. Unlike the stiletto-heeled masses, though, she has a more complicated take…
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Pakistan’s President To Meet With American Jewish Leaders
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has agreed to speak to a group of Jewish communal leaders when he comes to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly. The event was planned after a secret meeting in Pakistan between Musharraf and three top officials at the American Jewish Congress in late May. Invitations have…
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On Becoming a Fan of Japanese Film
At the July 18 reception for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, held at Gracie Mansion, host Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the organization “for bringing a small measure of justice to the millions of Jews victimized by the Nazis” and the resulting “distribution of over $1 billion… to more than 500,000 Jewish victims…
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Controversial Circumcision Rite Becomes Issue in Mayoral Race
The controversy over a disputed circumcision ritual could affect the mayor’s race in New York City, as some members of the Hasidic community are promising to protest any restrictions placed on the mohel in question. Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer has been the subject of an investigation by the city’s health department since three infants tested positive…
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Beard Ban Deters Chabad Rabbis From Becoming Chaplains in Army
By most measures, Yisroel Newman, 25, and other young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis like him are the obvious solution to the army’s severe shortage of Jewish chaplains. These young rabbis are trained by a movement dedicated to reaching Jews wherever they may be, no matter how remote. The peripatetic military lifestyle would not be much more difficult…
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In Search of the Rare Provo Liberal
Recently, the small city of Provo, Utah, acquired a big distinction: According to a study published this month, it is the most conservative city in America. Based on the voting patterns of 237 major urban centers across the country, researchers at the left-leaning Bay Area Center for Voting Research determined that Provo had the highest…
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