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Israel Debates a Plan To Demolish Homes in the Settlements of Gaza
JERUSALEM — They’ll lower the flag and fold it decorously. Then they’ll point the final convoy north. But what will Israel leave behind when it evacuates the last Jewish settlers from Gaza? Rows of well-tended houses for homeless Palestinians? Empty fields? Or piles of toxic rubble? As the August 15 date nears for the evacuation…
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Life of a Salesman: A Son’s Tribute
When I was a kid, my father told me he couldn’t read or watch “Death of a Salesman.” It hit far too close to home. Of course, this inspired me to read the play over and over again. Arthur Miller’s masterpiece affected me in ways I’m still figuring out, but I’m certain of two things:…
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Orthodox Rapper Embraces ‘Jews for Jesus’ Sect
50 Shekel, the Jewish rapper who dubbed himself the “The World’s Most Kosher MC,” is now calling himself “The Jewish Jesus Freak.” The rapper, Aviad Cohen, announced last week on his Web site that he had joined Jews for Jesus. In an e-mail to the Forward, he attributed the transformation to listening to evangelical Christian…
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Honoring a Broadcaster and Remembering a Song Master
Julie Chen, anchor of CBS News’s “The Early Show,” served as emcee at the May 19 UJA-Federation of New York Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award Dinner, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. The evening’s honoree was Viacom chairman of the board and CEO Sumner Redstone, whom Chen described as “a man who has built what is… the…
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Rabbis Facing Off Over Neighborhood Park in Florida
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Conservative and Hasidic rabbis often disagree over religious matters, but in this South Florida town they’re even butting heads over what to name a neighborhood park. At issue is the campaign by some local residents to name the park after city commissioner and former mayor Sal Oliveri, who has played the lead…
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Results of FBI Probe May Harm Aipac’s Reputation
WASHINGTON — The contents of the newly released federal indictment against Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, charging him with illegally disclosing secret information to an Israeli diplomat and to pro-Israel lobbyists, are heightening concerns in the Jewish community that a second round of indictments could damage the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobbying…
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California Dem Pushes for Marriage Bill
SAN FRANCISCO — The clock was running down and California Assemblyman Mark Leno was a few votes short, watching his same-sex marriage bill slide toward oblivion. For the second year in a row, Leno, a Jewish Democrat from San Francisco and one of the state legislature’s six openly gay lawmakers, was racing to beat the…
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Celebrities Meet To Discuss Jewish Future
A high-powered group of 20 Jewish intellectuals met behind closed doors near Washington late last month to discuss the future of the Jewish people — and the mood was not optimistic. Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, former Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky and Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler were among the select group of…
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Newsdesk June 17, 2005
Chief Rabbi Knighted Last week, Queen Elizabeth knighted Britain’s chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, marking the queen’s 79th birthday. She bestowed the vaunted “Sir” title on Sacks on June 11 in recognition of his services to the Jewish community and interfaith relations. “This is an honor not just for me but for the Jewish community and…
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Lillian Lux Burstein, 86, Yiddish Theater Giant
Lillian Lux Burstein, an internationally acclaimed doyenne of the Yiddish theater, died in New York last week of natural causes. She was 86. Burstein is best known for the musical acts she produced and staged as the matriarch of The Four Bursteins, a troupe composed of herself, her husband — famed actor Pesach’ke (Paul) Burstein…
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New York Lawmaker Uses Staff To Support Settlers
A New York assemblyman who started his political career as a lieutenant of the extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane has been using his taxpayer-funded staff to organize missions to Israel protesting the planned disengagement from Gaza. Last week State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew, led his second mission to Israel in recent months….
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