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Postpartum Depression Is Risky Business
It’s always fun when celebrities weigh in on sociopolitical matters. As Britney said on CNN, “We should trust our president in every decision that he makes, and we should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.” Amen! Keep the faith! (But wait, does that mean you support our president’s faithful allies…
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Florida Lawmaker in Flap Over ‘Holy Water’
Rep. Katherine Harris, the Republican best known for her controversial role in the Florida recount battle, is at the center of a new flap — over a report that she pressed the state to treat trees with Holy Water. Harris reportedly helped associates of the Kabbalah Centre to get officials in Florida’s agriculture department to…
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A New Anthology Revisits the Joys (and Horrors) of Camp Color War, Oh What a Bore
I’ve never much gone in for “two kinds of people” theories, but if I had to choose a way to divide up the world, it might be into those people who loved sleepaway camp and those who hated it. (As far as I know, no one is ever indifferent where sleepaway camp is concerned.) I…
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Canadian Aborigine Fined for Calling Jews a ‘Disease’
TORONTO — A prominent leader of Canada’s aboriginal community has been found guilty of “willfully promoting hatred,” after he publicly called Jews a “disease” and defended Adolf Hitler for having “fried 6 million of those guys” to stop them from “owning the world.” Last week, a trial judge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, found David Ahenakew, 71,…
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Coming of Age in Siberia
When Elaine Berke visited Khabarovsk, Siberia, last November with a mission organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, she asked a roomful of local Jewish students if they had had a bar or bat mitzvah. Only one raised his hand. The others said, sadly, that they were too old. Berke told them about her…
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Greetings From Home: 350 Years of American Jewish Life (Correction)
A July 8 calendar entry for the exhibit Greetings From Home: 350 Years of American Jewish Life, at the Center for Jewish History in New York, listed the hours incorrectly. The exhibit is open Mon. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit www.ajhs.org…
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At Benefit, Dan Rather Suggests Floyd Abrams For High Court
A newly retired Dan Rather, spouting Texan tales and maxims, served as the emcee at the ELEM: Youth in Distress in Israel benefit held June 1 at New York’s Jewish Museum. First Amedment lawyer Floyd Abrams, on a break from defending The New York Times’s Judith Miller, was, together with wife Efrat, among the evening’s…
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Jailed Reporter Draws Ire of Left, Right
It’s been a rough stretch for Judith Miller. The New York Times reporter has been sitting in a Virginia jail for the past week for refusing to name her confidential sources to the prosecutor investigating the Bush administration “outing” of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. Now, to compound the indignity, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Miller —…
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How Long Will We Be in Iraq?
The latest news on how long the United States will continue to wage its war in Iraq is profoundly disturbing, because of both what it says and who is saying it. The speaker is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The essence of his statement was summarized recently in the newspapers when Rumsfeld said the insurgency…
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Paul M. Steinberg, HUC-JIR Official
Paul M. Steinberg, Eleanor Sinsheimer distinguished service professor of Jewish religious education and human relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, died July 8 in New York after battling cancer for several years. He was 79. Steinberg served as teacher, mentor, dean and vice president at the College-Institute schools in New York and Jerusalem,…
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Effort Eyed To Combat Divestment
In an effort to combat the growing mainline Protestant efforts to divest from Israel, a leading Jewish civil-rights organization is weighing the creation of a new interfaith coalition uniting liberal and conservative Christians. A key piece of the plan, being considered by the American Jewish Congress, would be the recruitment of liberal Protestants to protest…
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