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Media Furor in Bronx Fueled by Thesis
Like most master’s degree students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, I expected my 32-page thesis to gather dust peacefully on the library’s shelves. Instead, it unleashed a political storm of scurrilous charges of antisemitism against one of the most prominent players in New York City politics — and my main source. Herewith, the…
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Newsdesk September 2, 2005
P.A. Assets Frozen A Rhode Island court froze the Palestinian Authority’s American assets because of an unpaid court order regarding a terror attack. The Palestinian governing body was ordered last year to pay $116 million in damages related to the 1996 shooting of American citizen Yaron Ungar and his Israeli wife, but it has not…
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Moments of Revision
Judith Gold Stitzel of Morgantown, W.Va., has an inquiry about the word “phylacteries,” the English term for what Jews call “tefillin” (pronounced “Tfee-LEEN” in Hebrew and “TFI-lin” in Yiddish and English). She writes: “Out of curiosity, I decided to learn more about the word. The Columbia Encyclopedia tells me that it is from a Greek…
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Liberal Groups Split With Allies Over Roberts
WASHINGTON — As church-state activists launched their harshest assault yet on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, they criticized Jewish organizations that have refused to join the fight. In one of the strongest attacks on Roberts, the Washington-based interest group Americans United for Separation of Church and State issued a report stating that the nominee’s record…
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Two ‘Cheesy’ Dudes Bring Epicureanism to the Masses
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday. Jon Mizrachi and Dan Grenke are ready for class. Their students are gathered in a circle, eyeing the vocabulary lists they’ve been given, taking in the focus of the evening’s lesson — yellow, crumbly, even a little stinky — sitting in front of them on a thick, black slab….
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Jewish Terror Wave Puts Israel on Alert
TEL AVIV — Shortly after 3 a.m., on the evening of August 19, a resident of Rehovot called the local fire department station to report a fire in a nearby field. Then a neighbor reported a strong smell of gas coming from below his apartment. The firemen who rushed to the scene, about 15 miles…
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Job Hunt: Choosing the Right White Coat
I am 32 years old, and it’s time to decide what I want to be when I grow up. I do have things narrowed down somewhat: I want to be a doctor. But what kind? I don’t have the luxury of thinking it over much longer. The time has come to apply to residency programs…
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School Boots Teachers’ Union, Fueling A Debate Among Conservative Rabbis
Just days before the start of classes this week, the trustees of a Conservative Jewish day school in suburban Detroit pulled the plug on its teachers’ union. The controversial move followed an August 16 decision by the State of Michigan Court of Appeals, which said that teachers in religious schools throughout the state do not…
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School Daze
For millions of contemporary American Jewish children, September is back-to-school time. Like their parents and grandparents before them, they approach the first day of class with a mix of anticipation and trepidation: Butterflies in the stomach, my mother called it. Unlike their parents and grandparents, who had little choice in the matter, American Jewish school…
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Orthodox Union Riles Working Moms
The country’s largest Orthodox organization posted an essay on its Web site last week that sharply criticized working mothers. “Let’s shatter the myth [of] a mother who works outside of the home,” Sara Malka Poupko Reichman wrote in an essay titled “Diary of a Professional Mother,” which was posted on the homepage of the Orthodox…
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Tahara: Securing a Dignified Final Passage
The Museum of Science and Industry, located in Tampa, Fla., recently opened what it is describing as an “educational” exhibition devoted to the body. Among the “pieces” on display are skinless corpses sliced in two, tarred human lungs, dehydrated brains, a gallery of dead fetuses, and a variety of sliced and diced body parts. As…
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