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Basque Twist Tarnishes Jerusalem’s ‘Gold’
TEL AVIV — To Israelis, Independence Day is by tradition a day of accounting. They learn how many of them there are (6.9 million last week — 76% of them Jewish — the Central Bureau of Statistics announced). They decide how they wish to be represented (in endless debates over who will win the prestigious…
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Hang Up Those Togas, Stop Up That Keg!
Leon Berg remembers a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi knocking on the door of his fraternity bedroom in College Park, Md., one Saturday morning in the 1970s. Berg was otherwise engaged, to use a euphemism, and chased away the rabbi. Undeterred, the rabbi would periodically visit the brothers at Alpha Epsilon Pi — a Jewish fraternity house…
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Dems Turn Up Heat on GOP Frontrunner
Even as a noted political tip sheet identified Senator George Allen as the GOP presidential frontrunner for 2008, a Jewish group was taking a swipe at the Virginia Republican for agreeing to speak this weekend at the Rev. Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach. The National Jewish Democratic Council called on Allen, who emerged…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Donation Demand: The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, demanded last week that President Bush return the $2,000 campaign donation he received in 2004 from Jack Abramoff, the disgraced GOP lobbyist. Abramoff is being investigated by the FBI, a federal grand jury and a Senate committee over allegations that he defrauded and overcharged…
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(Un)Sleeping Beauties
You know that part in “The Shining” when Shelley Duvall thinks that her husband, Jack Nicholson, has been working on his novel all winter, and she sneaks a peek at his manuscript and all he’s written over and over is “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”? That’s pretty much the caliber…
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Whose Independence Are We Celebrating, Anyway?
Israel turns 57 this week, and in Jewish kitchens all across America the cakes are getting iced blue and white to mark the occasion. But not in the kitchen at Hoomoos Asli, an Israeli restaurant in Lower Manhattan, or in the kitchen at Pianos, an East Village bar that is popular with the neighborhood’s sizable…
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Put the Fear of God Back Into the Mideast Peace Process
FORWARD FORUM The historic visit to Israel this week by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Justice and Development Party, proves that a Muslim who is serious about his religion can be friendly to Israel, and that those who predicted a decline in Turkish-Israeli relations following the rise of Erdogan’s Islamic- inspired conservative…
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A Raconteur’s Return For Cindy Chupack, There Is Indeed Life After ‘Sex’
As a writer and co-executive producer of “Sex and the City,” Cindy Chupack helped create a pop culture phenomenon — an instant classic that was at once of its time and timeless. The show, which completed its six-year run in February 2004, was sent off with a flurry of celebratory profiles, waves of chat-room anxiety…
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Wealthy Israelis Buying Up Swank New York Real Estate
Eloise is moving out of the Plaza, at least for now, and the Israelis are moving in. On the last day of April, the Plaza Hotel — mythical home to the mischievous children’s-book character — closed until 2007 for renovations. An Israeli owned-firm, Elad Properties, is planning to convert the New York landmark into a…
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Throng Thrills to Thomashefsky’s Titillating Tales
The April 14 premiere performance of “Thomashefskys’ Yiddish Theater: An Evening of Remembrances” at Carnegie Hall/Zankel Hall, hosted by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (a Thomashefsky grandson) was a nostalgic rollercoaster ride for the YIVO at 80 benefit audience. With over-the-top performances by Judy Blazer (as Bessie Thomashefsky); Shuler Hensley (as her larger-than-life womanizing husband, Boris);…
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U.S. Suspends Cooperation With Israel on Fighter Jet
In a clear sign that the Bush administration’s anger over Israeli-Chinese military ties is nearing a boiling point, the Pentagon is suspending information-sharing with Jerusalem on a key fighter-jet program. The seriousness of the rift had been downplayed for months by both American and Israeli officials. Last week, however, the Pentagon announced that it was…
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