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Rx for America: A Healthy Dose Of Information Technology
In today’s antiquated and bureaucratic health care system, every one of us is in danger of dying as the result of a medical error. In an America slow to adopt health information technology, even the most prepared individuals can be killed by a clerical oversight. Just ask Dave Canfield. Well into his 80s, Dave is…
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Israel Aims To Increase Study Programs
JERUSALEM — Israel announced the launch this week of an ambitious program to quadruple the number of Diaspora Jewish students visiting Israel on long-term education programs. The program aims by 2008 to have 20,000 young adults each year, some one-fifth of all Diaspora Jews in the target age groups, attending half-year or yearlong study and…
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Bush Rapped For Support Of Saudi Deal To Join WTO
The Bush administration is under fire from a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress for supporting a deal for Saudi membership in the World Trade Organization despite Saudi Arabia’s anti-Israel stance and tepid counter-terrorism efforts. A letter to U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, co-signed by 47 House members from both parties, called it “premature to…
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Mene Mene Mystery
Writing about the coming Israeli disengagement from Gaza in The New York Times on May 1, correspondent Steven Erlanger predicts that after the Gaza evacuation will come the turn of settlers on the West Bank. The latter, he writes, “see the writing on the wall — ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin,’ in the mysterious Aramaic phrase,…
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Republicans Block Air Force Report
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have killed two measures aimed at requiring the Air Force to submit a plan for ensuring religious tolerance at its academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The measures come in the wake of allegations of religious intolerance and coercion directed by evangelical Christians at the academy against Jews, Catholics and others. The…
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A Female Scribe’s Trailblazing Effort
Though the phrase “a new kind of Torah” may seem like an oxymoron, a Jewish community in the state of Washington is preparing to receive just such a thing: a Torah penned by a woman. Kadima, a 27-year-old Jewish congregation in Seattle that had relied on borrowed scrolls, has commissioned Aviel Barclay, the world’s only…
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Pressing Peace in Era of GOP, Pro-Oslo Group Gets New Look
WASHINGTON — An upcoming fund-raising dinner of a major pro-Israel organization will honor a top Likud official, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and a Republican businessman, Gary Heiman. Neither choice would be remarkable except that the organization is the Israel Policy Forum — long seen as a bastion of liberal support for Israeli peace policies….
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Tale of Computer Espionage Rocks Highest Echelons of Israeli Business
TEL AVIV — In an unusual departure, Israel’s headlines and public conversations this week were dominated not by diplomatic, political or military news but by a business scandal. However, it was not just an ordinary scandal: With close to a dozen of the country’s most distinguished business executives called in for investigation so far, the…
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Blacks and Jews In Harmony At the New York Festival of Song
The New York Festival of Song, which for the past 17 years has presented tantalizing musical buffets, deserves bravos for its May 3 “A Prince of a Fella” tribute to producer/director Hal Prince and for the May 11 “Lost Tribes of Vaudeville” exploration of the Jewish-black musical connection. Co-chaired by Jamie Bernstein, John Kander, Barbara…
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New Doctrine Chief, Heir to Inquisition Mantle, Counts Many Jews as Pals
OAKLAND — The Vatican’s new chief theological watchdog, former archbishop of San Francisco William Joseph Levada, has been bemoaned in some circles as a doctrinal conservative. But he is receiving praise from at least one liberal stronghold: the Bay Area’s Jewish community. Levada became the highest-ranking American in the history of the Roman Catholic Church…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 3, 2005
Once again, Stanley Siegelman returns to Der Vinkl with his incredible ability to spot odd and unusual news items and turn them into his funny, punny English and Yiddish. Here’s the way he introduces his rare bit of news: “Yielding to pressure from animal rights activists, the Israeli Knesset has banned the force-feeding of geese….
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