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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 10, 2005
Once more Joan Braman returns to Der Vinkl with her translation of English classics into Yiddish. Except this time, the English poet is really a Scot named Robert Burns (1759-1796). One of seven children born to a hard-working and very intelligent farmer and his wife, Burns was truly a people’s poet. He never hesitated to…
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Restraint Follows Attacks by Hamas, Islamic Jihad
SDEROT, Israel — Israeli officials were doing their best to maintain restraint and resist pressure to respond in kind to Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks in Gaza and the Negev on Tuesday, the bloodiest day in the territories since February’s Sharm el-Sheikh regional summit. The Palestinian attacks, by the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic…
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Congress To Monitor Aid to Palestinians
WASHINGTON — Congress is taking the unprecedented step of establishing an in-house oversight apparatus to monitor daily how American aid money to the Palestinian Authority is being spent. Rep. Jim Kolbe, the Arizona Republican spearheading the effort as chairman of the House subcommittee dealing with foreign aid appropriations, said that the new system will monitor…
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Croatian Convert Speaks on Settlers’ Behalf
There were plenty of opportunities for Maayan Yadaiy to give up life in the Gazan settlement bloc of Gush Katif. The day after she moved to there, Yadiay, 27, was greeted by the frantic knocking of neighbors announcing Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to pull Israeli forces out of Gaza and relocate all of the Jewish…
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Protest Against Gaza Plan Falls Short of Expectations
The first American effort to mount a mass protest against the Gaza disengagement plan fell short of expectations on Sunday. Organizers had hoped that 35,000 people would show up for a concert in New York’s Central Park, mounted to protest Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan. The plan will evacuate Israeli troops and civilian settlements from…
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Disengagement Opponents Launch Public Campaign
TEL AVIV — Likud opponents of Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan have launched a new campaign aimed at thwarting the initiative. Under the slogan “The disengagement will bring terrorism — we need to rethink things,” members of Sharon’s own Likud Party kicked off their public campaign Monday. The campaign, said to be costing hundreds of…
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Antisemitism Conference Loses Its Sharp Focus
Diplomatic efforts to fight antisemitism in Europe appeared to suffer a setback this week, as a region-wide conference drafted a declaration lumping the age-old prejudice with Islamophobia and racism. Insiders said the draft declaration to be issued at the end of the meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Cordoba, Spain…
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British Museum in Moral Quandary Over Stolen Art
The British Museum wants to return a set of drawings stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis — but in this case, doing the “moral” thing is against the law. At stake are four old master drawings that were taken in 1939 from the Feldmanns, a Czech family, and sold to the British Museum…
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Newsdesk June 10, 2005
Vatican Mulls AIDS Effort The World Jewish Congress and the Vatican are discussing a joint initiative to combat AIDS in Africa. The details of the initiative were being ironed out this week in Rome during meetings between top Jewish and Vatican officials, including the new pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI. The WJC and the Vatican, who…
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Restoring a Landmark Synagogue: If You Rebuild It, Will They Come?
It rained every day in Los Angeles when I visited recently, putting a damper on my plans to cruise the region while looking at new architecture. Somehow it’s easier to look at buildings in the rain in Syracuse, N.Y. (where I live), or in Central Europe, where I often work, than in Southern California, of…
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A Fiction Writer With the Courage To Resist Imagination
If you’re a fiction writer, a dreamer like Joseph or just a liar, and you want to get a man out of a burning house you just say, or write, “The man got out of the burning house.” You can gift the man with wings, introduce a providential angel or a magical butterfly out of…
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