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Times: Israeli Agents Are in Iraq…Maybe
Buried in the middle of a short July 14 news story about Turkey’s request that Iraq extradite two Islamists held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, The New York Times made a stunning allegation: Israeli intelligence officials are operating in Iraq. The story, written by the Times correspondent in Istanbul, Sebnem Arsu, mentions in its…
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Prisoners’ Release Stirs Protest in Peru
LIMA, Peru — Two Jewish media moguls imprisoned for their role in a 2000 election scandal were released last week under a controversial new law. Their release has caused a wave of protests and prompted anxious discussion within the Jewish community over some members’ high-profile links to the former Fujimori regime. The two men, brothers…
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‘Progressive’ Shmatte King, Sweatshop Foe, Faces Workers’ Protests Over Harassment
LOS ANGELES — Dov Charney, founder and CEO of American Apparel, has been hailed by Jewish anti-sweatshop activists as a pioneer in the fair treatment of garment workers in an industry plagued by allegations of substandard working conditions. But now his reputation is taking a hit with allegations of sexual harassment. American Apparel, which set…
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Moishe Pupik
Sherry Leffert of Cambridge, Mass., writes: “My friends and I were watching the Yiddish film ‘Amerikaner Shadkhen,’ in which the expression ‘Moishe Pupik’ occurs. We all had heard of him but wondered how the name and expression originated. Can you enlighten us?” I can hazard an educated guess. For the benefit of those readers who…
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A Lost Chapter From the Life of Oz
If you’ve read Amos Oz’s powerful new memoir, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” in English, you missed something. I’m not referring to the “something” that is “lost in translation,” those poetic nuances that will not migrate from Hebrew to English. I mean, you missed an entire chapter. You wouldn’t know this, because the English…
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A Century Later, Immigrant Story Finds Its Coda
When a young real estate developer acquired some property on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he figured he’d gotten a deal. But it took some time before recognizing the magnitude of his find. In 1982, Manhattan’s Lower East Side was not yet the gentrifying wonderland it is today. Judah Klausner was, nevertheless, drawn to the neighborhood’s…
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Israeli Report Calls Argentina Bombing Payback for ’92 Raid
A quasi-governmental Israeli body has acknowledged formally that the 1994 bombing of a Jewish communal center in Argentina, in which 85 people were killed, may have been an unanticipated consequence of Israeli military actions in South Lebanon. The acknowledgement came in the second annual report of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a Jerusalem think…
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Wrong Turn on the Way to Medical School? Not for These Gym Jews
We’ve all pretty much come to recognize that, professionally speaking, Jews today can be just about anything. The old immigrant stereotypes (tailor, peddler) faded away long ago, much as more recent aspirational visions (lawyer, doctor), too, seem shopworn and limiting. But still, there occasionally comes a job that seems, well, too goyish for a Jew….
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Religious Troops Torn Between Faith, Duty
TEL AVIV — There was a time when Captain Asaf Yemini, a religious officer in Israel’s elite Golani brigade, would have been a hero in the Gaza settlement of Gedid, where he grew up. But last Tuesday, friends and neighbors were calling him a traitor, as he stood with his unit, blocking anti-disengagement protesters from…
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Deaf Cupids Keep the World’s Silence at Bay
Matchmakers are known for being a talkative sort, but when Sam and Rachelle Landau practice their art, it’s all in the hands. The Landaus, the world’s only deaf Jewish matchmakers, ply their trade via fax machine, teletypewriter telephone and computer at their Elizabeth, N.J., home. Being cut off from the primary tool of modern romance…
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Battle Over Tactics May Split Labor Federation
A looming fight may lead to the breakup of the country’s major labor federation — and to changes in the way unions organize and wield their political clout. At the heart of the struggle is the future of the AFL-CIO, the 57-union federation headed by president John Sweeney. His leadership is being challenged by a…
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