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Under a Cloud, a Lawyer For Survivors Soldiers On
A decade after he shot to fame as a Holocaust restitution lawyer, attorney Ed Fagan now does most of his business from a cell phone. Deeply in debt, he no longer has an office and is the target of an ethics investigation that threatens to disbar him. But this has not stopped him from continuing…
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Iraq Allows Jews To File Property Claims
A new Iraqi law allowing Jews worldwide to file claims for lost property is being hailed by advocates for the rights of Jews expelled from Arab countries — but only a tiny percentage of Jews from Iraq qualify for compensation. Justice for Jews From Arab Countries, a coalition of major Jewish organizations, praised the newly…
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Between War and Peace, There Is Disengagement
A Rubicon in Israeli politics will be crossed by early September, when the evacuation of around 8,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza and parts of the West Bank is scheduled to be completed. What will follow on the day after disengagement is still very much in the air, but this much is clear: The situation will…
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Is It Kosher?
abbi Jonathan Gerard of Easton, Pa., writes: “One often hears Americans using the term ‘kosher.’ Hearing it on National Public Radio recently prompted me to wonder what the speaker actually meant by it. In Hebrew it means ‘fit; proper; according to [Jewish] law.’ Could it be that in English the term is used in the…
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Sudan Fight Unites Hawks, Left in Push For Divestment
In what its supporters hope will be a repeat of the successful divestment campaign against apartheid-era South Africa, security hawks and human-rights advocates are joining forces in an increasingly successful grass-roots campaign to convince universities and public pension funds to divest from Sudan. Liberal groups are pressing universities and states to divest from Sudan over…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 17, 2005
Once again Joan Braman graces Der Vinkl with her elegant and eloquent translation of great English classics into Yiddish. This time the poem is William Blake’s… The Tiger Tiger, tiger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt…
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Saudi Jihadists Play a Growing Part In Iraq Insurgency, U.S. Generals Say
WASHINGTON — Saudi nationals fighting American forces in Iraq have grown in numbers significantly in recent months, and are now believed to constitute a majority in the swelling ranks of foreign Islamic insurgents in Iraq — and the majority of suicide bombers in Iraq, according to the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee….
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A Loving Wife’s Father’s Day Greeting
It’ll be a strange Father’s Day chez nous — the first since my dad’s death, the first since we had Maxine. On the actual Big Day we’ll all be at the cemetery, at my father’s unveiling. Good times. It is a testament to my husband’s wonderfulness that he has not uttered one word of complaint…
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Turkey Pressed on Antisemitism As ADL Fetes Its Prime Minister
WASHINGTON — While members of Congress urged President Bush last week to hold Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “responsible for the increase of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in Turkey,” the Anti-Defamation League gave the Turkish leader its Courage To Care Award, in honor of his nation’s rescue of Jews during World War II. The apparent…
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A Winemaker Is Forced To Close Up Shop
kosher winery or a Jewish education for the kids? After a decade-long juggling act, Northern California winemaker Craig Winchell was finally forced to confront just this choice. Although he has a passion for crafting kosher chardonnays and cabernets, the educational needs of his children has won out. As a result, Winchell’s Gan Eden winery, located…
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Political Response to Air Force Allegations Divided Along Party Lines
In the first political fallout over the allegations of proselytizing and religious coercion at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the father of one complainant is vowing to oust his congresswoman over what he claims is her lack of action on the matter. New Mexico attorney Mikey Weinstein is pledging that he will work to unseat…
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