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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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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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Parties Trade Fire Over Anti-war Activist
In an effort to discredit Democrats, conservatives and Republican Jewish leaders jumped on reports — later denied — that the nation’s most prominent anti-war activist had blamed Israel for America’s war in Iraq. The controversy surrounded remarks allegedly made by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year…
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Newsdesk August 19, 2005
China Fight Resolved A months-long sometimes-raging dispute between the United States and Israel over Israeli security exports to China was settled Tuesday, with the U.S. Defense Department and the Israeli Defense Ministry issuing a joint statement. “The U.S. Department of Defense and the Israeli Ministry of Defense have signed an understanding that is designed to…
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Settlers Find New Place To Settle
NITZAN, Israel — Shlomi Tabach, a resident of Gush Katif for 16 years, was trying to pry the bronze mezuzah off his front doorpost with pliers, but it wouldn’t budge. His mother-in-law quipped: “Look at that: The mezuzah doesn’t want to leave. It wants to stay in Gush Katif.” With one more yank, the mezuzah…
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Rabbi Faces Off With Protesters
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a prominent leader of Israel’s religious Zionist camp and a staunch critic of the Gaza withdrawal, found himself in a violent tussle — with other opponents of the pullout. The trouble started Monday night at about midnight, when hundreds of youngsters in Neve Dekalim came to the entrance gate and blocked Gush…
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Crowds Confront Soldiers
The soldier with a honey-colored ponytail tucked under her hat was surrounded Tuesday by weeping teenage girls in Neve Dekalim asking her where her Jewish heart was — but she didn’t flinch. “How can you evacuate my grandmother? She was in the Palmach,” said one teary-eyed girl, referring to the elite Jewish militia that fought…
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Gaza Journal; Crowds Confront Soldiers
With the sun setting on Gaza Tuesday night, historian Michael Oren stood in the Gush Katif settlement bloc as Israeli soldiers received orders for the next day’s forced removal of Jewish settlers. A senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based center-right Shalem Center think tank, Oren wrote a highly praised book on Israel’s capture of Gaza and…
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Shul Dispute Nears End
After a lengthy court battle and an investigation by the New York attorney general, an Orthodox synagogue union will be allowed to sell its Manhattan building. The initial efforts to sell the building drew a lawsuit from the congregation that it houses, Young Israel of Fifth Avenue. Leaders of the congregation opened court proceedings three…
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