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Newsdesk May 27, 2005
Police: Indict Chief Rabbi Police investigators recommended Sunday that Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger be indicted, after they wrapped up a probe of allegations that he received illicit perks from a Jerusalem hotel last year. It was the most serious criminal investigation against a serving chief rabbi in Israel’s history. Metzger has denied wrongdoing. Attorney…
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Interfaith Program Facing Elimination
A groundbreaking outreach program aimed at interfaith families faces elimination as a local federation looks for ways to trim its budget. The 15-year-old Pathways Program, run by United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey, could close as early as this summer following a recommendation last week from the organization’s allocations council. Some board members of…
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Jewish Groups Step Up Activism on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — Congressional fights over judicial nominees and stem-cell research have unleashed a new wave of Jewish political activity on Capitol Hill. Organizations were sending out messages and calling rabbis as the U.S. Senate prepared to take on controversial judicial nominations and the House of Representatives passed a bill to expand stem-cell research. The sudden…
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From ‘Balance’ to Censorship: Bush’s Cynical Plan for NPR
When the Bush administration introduced a plan to destroy the editorial independence of National Public Radio earlier this month, I couldn’t help thinking back to a particular morning in my kitchen several years ago. While washing the breakfast dishes, I heard a report from Israel on NPR describing how Palestinian laborers were reduced to sneaking…
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Stop! (In the Name of Accuracy)
‘HOLY SHIITE: Newsweek Retracts Its Deadly Toilet Tale,” was the headline of the May 17 New York Post. This pun of questionable taste, which was not calculated to further endear the American media to Muslim readers, was made possible by the aversion that most English speakers have to what linguists call a glottal stop —…
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Hecklers Nabbed VIP Seating With Help of (Former) Friend
After Prime Minister Sharon was interrupted by a handful of hecklers Sunday during a speech in New York, one of his high-profile hosts felt the need to apologize. “The noisy minority does not reflect the view of the vast majority,” said host James Tisch, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations….
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Holocaust Artifacts on the E-block Trade in Sensitive Items on eBay Worries Experts
The item was described as follows: “A folded letter sent by inmate #15529, block 12/4 in Dachau concentration camp, sent to wife in occupied Poland, censored by camp Police, 8/19/1942, fine condition.” But the artifact was not in a glass case at a museum or on file at a library — it was for sale…
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Sharon Gets Nod for Gaza Plan at Aipac Parley
WASHINGTON — Despite fears of discord, Israel’s prime minister received a rousing show of support Tuesday when he presented his Gaza disengagement plan to a cheering crowd of some 5,000 of America’s most influential pro-Israel activists at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. For months communal insiders had questioned whether Prime…
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Tzitzit: A Look at Life on the Fringe
Though you’d be hard pressed to find a rabbi who’d admit it, the only way to truly get to know a man is by getting into his pants and taking a peek. At his tzitzit. Yup, super-religious or almost agnostic, Zionistic, athletic or just plain sloppy — you can tell a lot about a guy…
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Army Chief Bows Out With Homily At Death Camp
OSWIECIM, Poland — With just weeks to go before he retires, Israel’s military chief of staff, Moshe Ya’alon, came to Auschwitz last week to deliver a moral sermon to the troops back home. “Never again — never victims and never murderers,” Ya’alon said, standing alongside a swath of barbed wire and addressing a small group…
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Life and Laughs At the Oasis
When Irving Brecher did his stand-up act for a room of retired physicians at Beverly Hills’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center it didn’t go so well. “They smiled,” 91-year-old Brecher recalled, “but didn’t want to use up their energy laughing.” But like anyone with a vaudevillian’s instincts, Brecher was able to use the debacle to his advantage….
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