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Turkey Pressed on Antisemitism As ADL Fetes Its Prime Minister
WASHINGTON — While members of Congress urged President Bush last week to hold Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “responsible for the increase of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in Turkey,” the Anti-Defamation League gave the Turkish leader its Courage To Care Award, in honor of his nation’s rescue of Jews during World War II. The apparent…
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A Winemaker Is Forced To Close Up Shop
kosher winery or a Jewish education for the kids? After a decade-long juggling act, Northern California winemaker Craig Winchell was finally forced to confront just this choice. Although he has a passion for crafting kosher chardonnays and cabernets, the educational needs of his children has won out. As a result, Winchell’s Gan Eden winery, located…
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Israel Debates a Plan To Demolish Homes in the Settlements of Gaza
JERUSALEM — They’ll lower the flag and fold it decorously. Then they’ll point the final convoy north. But what will Israel leave behind when it evacuates the last Jewish settlers from Gaza? Rows of well-tended houses for homeless Palestinians? Empty fields? Or piles of toxic rubble? As the August 15 date nears for the evacuation…
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Life of a Salesman: A Son’s Tribute
When I was a kid, my father told me he couldn’t read or watch “Death of a Salesman.” It hit far too close to home. Of course, this inspired me to read the play over and over again. Arthur Miller’s masterpiece affected me in ways I’m still figuring out, but I’m certain of two things:…
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Orthodox Rapper Embraces ‘Jews for Jesus’ Sect
50 Shekel, the Jewish rapper who dubbed himself the “The World’s Most Kosher MC,” is now calling himself “The Jewish Jesus Freak.” The rapper, Aviad Cohen, announced last week on his Web site that he had joined Jews for Jesus. In an e-mail to the Forward, he attributed the transformation to listening to evangelical Christian…
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Honoring a Broadcaster and Remembering a Song Master
Julie Chen, anchor of CBS News’s “The Early Show,” served as emcee at the May 19 UJA-Federation of New York Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award Dinner, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. The evening’s honoree was Viacom chairman of the board and CEO Sumner Redstone, whom Chen described as “a man who has built what is… the…
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Rabbis Facing Off Over Neighborhood Park in Florida
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Conservative and Hasidic rabbis often disagree over religious matters, but in this South Florida town they’re even butting heads over what to name a neighborhood park. At issue is the campaign by some local residents to name the park after city commissioner and former mayor Sal Oliveri, who has played the lead…
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Results of FBI Probe May Harm Aipac’s Reputation
WASHINGTON — The contents of the newly released federal indictment against Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, charging him with illegally disclosing secret information to an Israeli diplomat and to pro-Israel lobbyists, are heightening concerns in the Jewish community that a second round of indictments could damage the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobbying…
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Political Response to Air Force Allegations Divided Along Party Lines
In the first political fallout over the allegations of proselytizing and religious coercion at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the father of one complainant is vowing to oust his congresswoman over what he claims is her lack of action on the matter. New Mexico attorney Mikey Weinstein is pledging that he will work to unseat…
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Judaicide
Allan Mallenbaum of Plainview, N.Y., writes: “I’ve seen no word that can be used for the phenomenon of suicidal terrorists who target Jews exclusively. It’s unfortunate, outrageous, that we need such a term, but reality dictates the needs of expression. “Judicide, parallel to suicide, would seem a good choice, but could be misinterpreted to mean…
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Peering Behind the JAP Label
At first glance, Isabel Rose, the author of a new novel dedicated to skewering the Jewish American Princess, strikes you as exactly what she professes to mock: Tiny, well dressed, 10 minutes late and drinking from my glass of pinot grigio, she seems a perfect (albeit red-haired) JAP stereotype. I’ve been sitting at the crowded…
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