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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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Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna, ‘Understanding Genesis’ Author
When I picture my father, my abba, renowned biblical scholar and translator Nahum Sarna, I inevitably picture him studying. His favorite room, by far, was his book-lined study: There he sat, morning, noon and long past nightfall, reading, writing and teaching. My father, who died June 23 at the age of 82, defined Torah very…
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This Independence Day, a Chance For Global Freedom From Poverty
One billion people in the developing world live on $1 or less a day, lacking clean water, electricity, food, education and medical care. This July 4, as we Americans proudly celebrate our independence, it is our hope that President Bush fully contemplates the opportunity he has to help free many of them from the chains…
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Evangelicals Eye Middle Ground On Middle East
WASHINGTON — The nation’s main coalition of evangelical Christian churches is under internal pressure to adopt a Middle East policy for the first time, and observers expect the group to emerge more centrist and moderate than its current image. In recent weeks, key members of the National Association of Evangelicals, a loose federation of 52…
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Newsdesk July 1, 2005
Gonzales Reaches Out Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met with leaders of the Anti-Defamation League last week for his third powwow with Jewish communal leaders since early May. During the meeting, he vowed to make himself accessible to the Jewish community, as well as to other minority groups in America. Officials at Jewish organizations said that…
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After World Pressure, Russia Abandons Investigation Denounced as ‘Blood Libel’
Prosecutors had been investigating the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia because of its role in publishing and distributing Russian translations of the Shulchan Aruch, the 16th-century code written by Rabbi Joseph Caro. The organization’s leader, Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, was questioned last week as part of an investigation reportedly launched at the…
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The Piercer and the Pierced?
Robert Milch of Stony Brook, N.Y., inquires: “In an article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine on June 19, a Christian minister is quoted as saying: ‘The Hebrew words for male and female are actually the words for the male and female genital parts. The male is the piercer; the female is the pierced.’…
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British Leftist Pol Turns Anti-Israel Stance Into Electoral Strategy
George Galloway, a leftist British politician who recently launched his own party, never has been much of a supporter of Israel, but in the last two months his political star has risen after a series of confrontations with Jewish politicians. First, in early May, Galloway won a seat in parliament by unseating Oona King, a…
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Visiting Patients, With Dictionary In Hand
Before I became a medical student, I thought I spoke Spanish pretty well. I spent six months after college researching minority languages in Spain and, after moving to New York, I’ve had many a friendly conversation with miscellaneous Spanish speakers I’ve accosted: random passersby from Puerto Rico, law students from Colombia, grocery packers from the…
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Air Force Taps Rabbi To Aid on Academy Religious Flap
The Air Force has named a Conservative rabbi to a newly created advisory position to help it deal with what it has acknowledged as problems of religious coercion and intolerance at the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, former national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and a…
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