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Patinkin Wows Carnegie Crowd With Evening Of Yiddish Song
After 90 years of wending its way from its beginnings on New York City’s Lower East Side on Second Avenue through its “vagabond” years at assorted theaters and auditoriums, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre took center stage at Carnegie Hall on June 16 at A Benefit for the Future of Yiddish Theatre in America, co-chaired by…
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Dean Plans To Visit Israel, Political Baggage in Tow
In his first trip to the Middle East as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean will be traveling to Israel this fall with a Jewish organization. Dean, who became the DNC chairman in February, will take the six-day trip in September with the National Jewish Democratic Council. Democrats are noting that the September…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 8, 2005
Murray Meld is an active Yiddishist who lives in Seattle. On several occasions over the past few years, he and his wife have submitted their works to Der Vinkl. Now we are pleased to add to their contributions with a poem written in English by Meld’s daughter. Murray has translated the poem into Yiddish. He…
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Children’s Book Offers Bilingual Avian Odyssey
David Weintraub, executive director of The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, lists among his organization’s goals “making the old language new again” and “fostering Jewish cultural continuance over the generations.” To this end, Weintraub and Rae Ann Harris, a onetime publicist who passed away in 2002, developed “Sereena’s Secret: Searching for Home,” a Yiddish-English…
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Senator in Flap Over Nominee
A conservative activist is coming under fire for claiming that a Jewish senator is blocking an Arab American judicial nominee because of his ethnicity. Victoria Toensing, a Washington attorney who sometimes speaks on behalf of the conservative judicial advocacy group Committee for Justice, reportedly accused Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, of “executing a vendetta”…
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MACCABIAH GAMES
BASKETBALL Herb Brown Herb Brown exemplifies a long and distinguished basketball tradition: the Jewish coach. Joining the ranks of such legends as Arnold “Red” Auerbach, longtime coach of the Boston Celtics, and William “Red” Holzman, onetime coach of the New York Knicks, Brown has kept the tradition alive by teaching the X’s and O’s of…
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Groups Gear Up For Confirmation Fight
WASHINGTON — The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is expected to intensify the Jewish community’s plans to weigh in on the high court’s future. Many Jewish organizations already had been mobilizing for an anticipated vacancy on the court, but had expected to be discussing a successor to Chief Justice William Rehnquist and…
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Holocaust Revisionists Take On Mideast Policy
The leading Holocaust revisionist group in America is set to go on the offensive this month with a meeting in New York to discuss the “Jewish-Zionist role in fomenting war in the Middle East” and a protest in Los Angeles at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Institute for Historical Review argues that 6 million Jews…
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Colorado Federation Sees Donations Rise
The annual fundraising campaigns at local Jewish charitable federations have not been a growth industry in recent years, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the situation in Denver. Since a new CEO arrived at the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado in 2002, the annual campaign has grown 51%. When the 2005 annual campaign…
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Newsdesk July 8, 2005
Divestment Motion Passes The United Church of Christ called on members to employ “economic leverage” against Israel, including possible divestment. A resolution passed at the UCC’s biennial synod Tuesday urged local churches “to use economic leverage,” including “divesting from those companies that refuse to change their practices of gain from the perpetuation of violence, including…
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Bucking Trend, Poll Finds Americans Against Pullout
A new poll touted by a leading anti-disengagement group found that the majority of Americans do not support Israel’s Gaza withdrawal plan. But the figures fly in the face of other polls, which have found that a majority of American Jews and Americans in general support the Gaza pullout. The recent poll was commissioned by…
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