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Newsdesk August 12, 2005
Red Cross Targeted in Gaza The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended all field operations in Gaza on Monday in order to protest what it sees as a deterioration in security. The Red Cross closed its offices in Khan Yunis indefinitely, after gunmen fired dozens of bullets at them. A number of United Nations…
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White. Gay. Jewish. Rapper?
Andrew Singer is the nicest gay, Jewish, white rapper alive. This isn’t hyperbole. He also happens to be the only gay, Jewish, white rapper alive. Singer, 25, now lives in Manhattan’s East Village, but his voyage began in Kensington, N.H., about an hour north of Boston. Singer, who attended Hebrew school in Portsmouth, N.H., sees…
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Stumbling Into the Winner’s Circle
Last weekend, the Forward sent reporter Max Gross — aka the Hapless Jewish Writer — to the Catskills to report on a story. He came back an accidental horse racing champion. This is his story. Back in his college days, the Hapless Jewish Writer’s klutziness was the stuff of legends. During his first week at…
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Kickin’ the Bottle
My children, like all Jewish children, are very, very advanced. They can perform higher calculus and split the atom. They have a 10-point plan for peace in the Middle East. As we speak, Josie, age 3 3/4, is directing an avant-garde production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” in the backyard (she acknowledges that her stuffed…
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As Poverty Surges, Bibi Quits Finance Post. His Aim: Oust Sharon
TEL AVIV — Israel earned the dubious distinction this week of being the Western nation with the highest proportion of its children — one in three — living in poverty. An annual report released Tuesday by the National Insurance Institute, Israel’s Social Security office, showed that the number of Israelis living below the poverty line…
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No Rabbi To Call Your Own? How About a Rental?
When Samantha, a 13-year-old Jewish girl from Westchester County, N.Y., became a bat mitzvah, she read from the Torah and recited the ancient blessings before a gathering of family and friends. But unlike a typical ceremony, Samantha’s was in a catering hall and not a synagogue. She read from a rented Torah. And the rabbi…
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Failed Iran Diplomacy Shows America Must Offer Security
It may have been the biggest disaster for European diplomacy since the Balkan wars in the early 1990s. After years of delicate negotiations with Iran to convince the mullahs to abandon their quest for nuclear weapons, last week the “EU3” group of Germany, Britain and France made a final offer to Tehran — give up…
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Of Sugihara and Hiroshima
Among the 3,000 champagne-sipping guests crowded into New York City’s French Consulate for the July 14 Bastille Day celebration — hosted by consul general François Delattre and his wife, Sophie L’Hélias-Delattre — were Rabbi Arthur Schneier and his wife, Elisabeth; concert pianist Charlotte White (whose grandfather and father were avid readers of the Yiddish Forward),…
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Rightist’s Blast On Stem Cells Stirs Outrage
After a leading religious conservative leader compared stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments, several groups that condemned the analogy have reported a flood of messages from angry protesters, some of them threatening violence. During his syndicated radio show August 3, James Dobson, one of the country’s most influential religious conservatives and chairman of the conservative…
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Bus Attack Highlighting Links Of Israeli Extremists, Americans
Last week’s terrorist killing of four Israeli Arabs has cast light on a network of ties linking mainstream American Jewish groups to an extremist fringe in Israel that nurtured the Jewish gunman. The killer, Eden Natan-Zada, was a 19-year-old Israeli army conscript who had gone AWOL with his weapon after refusing to participate in the…
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Memo on Holocaust Hero Provides Taste of Roberts’s Legal Thinking
In 1984, when Judge John G. Roberts was a young legal adviser to President Ronald Reagan, he was asked to give his view on a matter pertaining to the fate of World War II-era Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg, whose efforts saved many Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was then thought to be held captive…
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