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Pretender or Contender?
Is a Sabbath-observant boxing phenom with the Star of David on his trunks ready to become a contender? On August 25, Dmitriy Salita next enters the ring, where he may well extend his undefeated professional record of 22-0, but the question remains whether he has what it takes to make the transition from a promising…
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Selling Israel With Sun, Fun and a Whiff of Sex …
“Make Jewish babies.” Well, that’s one way to cure jetlag. Shlomo “Momo” Lifschitz, the hard-charging president of Oranim Educational Initiatives — today’s frontrunner in Jewish educational travel from Petach Tivah to Prague — assumed a despotic stance this past May before some 200 bleary-eyed Birthright Israel participants, gathered inside one air-conditioned Jerusalem conference room. The…
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Pullout Critics In U.S. Draw Few Backers
American opponents of the Gaza pullout drew limited support this week as they held several vigils and demonstrations in New York and other cities that warned the disengagement plan would only fuel terrorism. On Tuesday, as Israeli forces were preparing to forcibly remove thousands of Jewish settlers from Gaza and the northern West Bank, between…
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… And Reselling It With a Hand From the Free Market
If the free market is a good indicator of success, then American Jewish organizations struggling to recruit young members have something to learn from a small private tour operator in Israel called Oranim. Oranim is one of 20 nonprofit and commercial organizations vying to bring kids on Birthright Israel, the wildly successful five-year old program…
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More Tears Than Blood Shed In Disengagement’s Early Days
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza — For months, Israelis have been hearing about the massive opposition awaiting Israeli military and police forces should they try to implement the disengagement plan. But as the day finally arrived, the evacuating forces were met with scattered and leaderless resistance from youths in the streets and families waiting in their homes….
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Finding Love in Punjab, India
Just months after being introduced by a pair of mutual friends at a spiritual colony in Punjab, India, Ken Rosenblatt and Ruth Deyenne married July 19 in a small ceremony at the new couple’s home in Falls Church, Va. The service was presided over by Justice of the Peace Georgianne Atkins-Haville and was attended by…
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Murder Trial Rivets Hong Kong’s Expat Community
For years, Nancy Kissel, a 41-year-old socialite and expatriate American, had been living the high life as a leading light in Hong Kong’s small but thriving Jewish community. Then she killed her investment banker husband, Robert Kissel. She bludgeoned him to death in their fashionable apartment in the ritzy Tai Tam neighborhood with a heavy…
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Two Farewells: One Warm, One Tearful
‘Polish society is most paradoxical,” said Poland’s consul general, Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, at the July 28 adieu luncheon in her honor, hosted by the American Jewish Committee at its headquarters. “It is the most pro-Israel in Europe today…. There is no such thing as being anti-Israel, yet antisemitism exists in Poland…. It’s kind of schizophrenic. Israel…
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Senator Painted As Inquisitor In Roberts Fight
As the Senate girds itself for the upcoming battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, a leading conservative journal has waded into the fray with a cover illustration depicting a prominent Democratic Jewish senator as a Tomás de Torquemada-style inquisitor. The illustration, which appears on the cover of the August 8 issue…
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Powerful Gun Lobby Takes Aim With First Jewish Leader
OAKLAND, Calif. — Guns were not a big deal in Sandy Froman’s life — until an intruder tried to break into her Los Angeles apartment one night about 25 years ago. Now she is the first Jewish person and only the second woman to serve as president of the National Rifle Association. “I think the…
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Gaza Evacuation Transforms Israeli Landscape
As Israel carries out its historic pullout from Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian officials are reporting the highest levels of trust and cooperation between the two sides since before the outbreak of the current violence five years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon originally billed the pullout — including the dismantling of all 21 Jewish settlements in…
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