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Israel Targets U.S. Foes of Gaza Plan
WASHINGTON — As settlers and their supporters ratchet up efforts to stop Israel’s planned Gaza pullout, Jerusalem is intensifying its efforts to build support for the plan and neutralize any American Jewish opposition. Last week, in a conference call with leaders of Jewish organizations, Israel’s minister of construction, Yitzhak Herzog, urged American Jews not to…
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Scooping Up Satisfaction
This letter comes from Esther Tabak: “I have to ask you about an expression I grew up with: ‘sheb nakhes,’ which refers to the nakhes or satisfaction we get from life’s gifts, such as the pleasures associated with children and grandchildren. No matter what area of the world a Yiddish speaker comes from, every one…
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Blair To Push for Mideast Talks In Response to July 7 Bombings
In the wake of last week’s London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is likely to increase his calls for American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian issue, according to international experts, diplomats and Jewish activists. “Blair will absolutely push harder for a two-state solution,” Crispin Black, director of Janusian Security Risk Management in London, wrote in…
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Postpartum Depression Is Risky Business
It’s always fun when celebrities weigh in on sociopolitical matters. As Britney said on CNN, “We should trust our president in every decision that he makes, and we should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.” Amen! Keep the faith! (But wait, does that mean you support our president’s faithful allies…
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Florida Lawmaker in Flap Over ‘Holy Water’
Rep. Katherine Harris, the Republican best known for her controversial role in the Florida recount battle, is at the center of a new flap — over a report that she pressed the state to treat trees with Holy Water. Harris reportedly helped associates of the Kabbalah Centre to get officials in Florida’s agriculture department to…
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A New Anthology Revisits the Joys (and Horrors) of Camp Color War, Oh What a Bore
I’ve never much gone in for “two kinds of people” theories, but if I had to choose a way to divide up the world, it might be into those people who loved sleepaway camp and those who hated it. (As far as I know, no one is ever indifferent where sleepaway camp is concerned.) I…
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Canadian Aborigine Fined for Calling Jews a ‘Disease’
TORONTO — A prominent leader of Canada’s aboriginal community has been found guilty of “willfully promoting hatred,” after he publicly called Jews a “disease” and defended Adolf Hitler for having “fried 6 million of those guys” to stop them from “owning the world.” Last week, a trial judge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, found David Ahenakew, 71,…
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Coming of Age in Siberia
When Elaine Berke visited Khabarovsk, Siberia, last November with a mission organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, she asked a roomful of local Jewish students if they had had a bar or bat mitzvah. Only one raised his hand. The others said, sadly, that they were too old. Berke told them about her…
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Greetings From Home: 350 Years of American Jewish Life (Correction)
A July 8 calendar entry for the exhibit Greetings From Home: 350 Years of American Jewish Life, at the Center for Jewish History in New York, listed the hours incorrectly. The exhibit is open Mon. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit www.ajhs.org…
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At Benefit, Dan Rather Suggests Floyd Abrams For High Court
A newly retired Dan Rather, spouting Texan tales and maxims, served as the emcee at the ELEM: Youth in Distress in Israel benefit held June 1 at New York’s Jewish Museum. First Amedment lawyer Floyd Abrams, on a break from defending The New York Times’s Judith Miller, was, together with wife Efrat, among the evening’s…
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Jailed Reporter Draws Ire of Left, Right
It’s been a rough stretch for Judith Miller. The New York Times reporter has been sitting in a Virginia jail for the past week for refusing to name her confidential sources to the prosecutor investigating the Bush administration “outing” of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. Now, to compound the indignity, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Miller —…
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