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A Legacy of Their Own
Carol and Gila Daman share the same bright eyes and affable smile. And though they’re more than 30 years apart, they also have an academic home in common: Brandeis University. Carol graduated from the Waltham, Mass., school in 1973; her daughter, Gila, has just started her sophomore year. As she moves into her new room…
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Disastrous Leadership Failed To Heed Lessons From Florida
A devastating hurricane rips through a southern state. There is no power, water or ice. The poor and the elderly are hardest hit and most forgotten. Sewage overflows into the streets. Federal officials struggle to establish supply routes for life-sustaining aid. I could be describing the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina. I also could be…
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Hitting the Road With Reiser and Falk
“I know just enough Yiddish to answer an old lady in an elevator that I am not going to kill her,” Paul Reiser joshed during our August 31 interview at the Regency Hotel. He was in town to tout his new film, “The Thing About My Folks,” which he wrote and in which he co-stars…
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Bridging the Post-Gaza Divide
Due to an editing error, the contributor biography at the end of Ruth Gavison’s September 9 opinion article, “Bridging the Post-Gaza Divide,” misstated the name of a document she co-authored. The document is known as the “Gavison-Medan Covenant.”
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Judge Rejects Shoah Survivors’ Appeal
A federal appeals judge rejected a request from American Holocaust survivors for a greater share of any remaining money in the $1.25 billion Swiss bank case. The American survivors were appealing a March 2004 memorandum that promised 75% of any remaining funds in the case to needy survivors in the former Soviet Union. In a…
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Giuliani Endorsed Conservative Christian in Ohio
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani last week stood behind his endorsement of a Cincinnati Republican mayoral candidate who once wrote that “only born-again believers” should be elected to public office. Giuliani endorsed the candidate, Charles Winburn, during a September 7 visit to the southern Ohio city. A picture of Giuliani was displayed prominently on…
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Professors Plan To Boycott Bush Speech
As President Bush’s popularity plunged this week in the post-Hurricane Katrina polls, several academics were planning to boycott his keynote speech Wednesday at a gala dinner in Washington. The event, to be held at the National Building Museum, was held in celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jews in America. The professors — including New…
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Pols Split on Probe of Response to Storm
As the Senate this week began to investigate what went wrong with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, Jewish elected officials on opposite sides of the aisle offered sharply different approaches to answering the question. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, took the lead in demanding that the president appoint an independent panel along…
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In Storm’s Wake, Groups Fight Medicaid Cuts
WASHINGTON — America’s vast network of Jewish social service providers is seizing on the opportunity to use Hurricane Katrina to fight Republican efforts to slash Medicaid, the nation’s chief public health program for the poor. In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, GOP lawmakers have put off their plan to cut $10 billion from Medicaid…
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Baton Rouge Synagogue Closes Shelter for Victims
A Baton Rouge, La., synagogue has closed its shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina and placed its rabbi on administrative leave. The board of Congregation B’nai Israel asked Rabbi Barry Weinstein last week to take a paid leave of absence for an unspecified period. Weinstein had led B’nai Israel’s effort to house dozens of evacuees…
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Utah Station Pulls Plug on Radio Rabbi
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is claiming that a radio station in Utah abruptly canceled his national talk show after he invited Hurricane Katrina evacuees to settle in the state and to attend a Salt Lake City speaking engagement of his slated for this week. Boteach, best known for his book “Kosher Sex,” claims that higher ups…
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