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Report Fuels Suspicion Over Aipac Probe
WASHINGTON — After a recently promoted State Department official was linked last week to spying allegations against the pro-Israel lobby, Jewish communal leaders are again suggesting nefarious motives behind the investigation. The New York Times reported August 18 that David Satterfield, the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Baghdad, was one of two previously unnamed…
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Soldiers, Police Praised After Evacuating Settlements
EIN HASHLOSHA, Israel — As the residents of Netzarim, the last Israeli settlement in Gaza to be evacuated, left the area Monday, the respective commanders of the Israeli military and police southern commands, Dan Harel, a general, and police chief Uri Barlev, met the press in what was tantamount to a victory ceremony. They maintained…
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Orthodox Groups Call for Support for Settlers
American Orthodox groups are gearing up to ensure that the needs of the settlers recently uprooted from Gaza are not ignored. Jewish organizations, including the Orthodox Union, already have established a number of financial campaigns to raise money for the needs of the settlers. But the most ambitious call for action came from the National…
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Mirror Imaging
Throughout their century-old struggle over Palestine — or is it the Land of Israel? — Jews and Arabs often have vied with each other not only for the same land but also for the same words, the same images and the same conceptions of themselves, each side spinning a narrative that has been the upside-down…
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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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