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Newsdesk June 10, 2005
Vatican Mulls AIDS Effort The World Jewish Congress and the Vatican are discussing a joint initiative to combat AIDS in Africa. The details of the initiative were being ironed out this week in Rome during meetings between top Jewish and Vatican officials, including the new pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI. The WJC and the Vatican, who…
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Restoring a Landmark Synagogue: If You Rebuild It, Will They Come?
It rained every day in Los Angeles when I visited recently, putting a damper on my plans to cruise the region while looking at new architecture. Somehow it’s easier to look at buildings in the rain in Syracuse, N.Y. (where I live), or in Central Europe, where I often work, than in Southern California, of…
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A Fiction Writer With the Courage To Resist Imagination
If you’re a fiction writer, a dreamer like Joseph or just a liar, and you want to get a man out of a burning house you just say, or write, “The man got out of the burning house.” You can gift the man with wings, introduce a providential angel or a magical butterfly out of…
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Judaicide
Allan Mallenbaum of Plainview, N.Y., writes: “I’ve seen no word that can be used for the phenomenon of suicidal terrorists who target Jews exclusively. It’s unfortunate, outrageous, that we need such a term, but reality dictates the needs of expression. “Judicide, parallel to suicide, would seem a good choice, but could be misinterpreted to mean…
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Peering Behind the JAP Label
At first glance, Isabel Rose, the author of a new novel dedicated to skewering the Jewish American Princess, strikes you as exactly what she professes to mock: Tiny, well dressed, 10 minutes late and drinking from my glass of pinot grigio, she seems a perfect (albeit red-haired) JAP stereotype. I’ve been sitting at the crowded…
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Confirmation: The Life And Times of a Modern Ritual
Modernity, it was once thought, wreaked havoc with religious tradition, rendering centuries-old rituals obsolete. We now know better. Modernity has not only made room for tradition, it has even given birth to a number of new rituals of its own, among which the rite of confirmation, often celebrated on Shavuot, may well take pride of…
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From ‘Balance’ to Censorship: Bush’s Cynical Plan for NPR
A recent opinion essay in Forward Forum (“From ‘Balance’ to Censorship: Bush’s Cynical Plan for NPR,” May 27) was construed by some readers to imply incorrectly that Camera, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, had called for readers of the Los Angeles Times to cancel their subscriptions. In fact, Camera never…
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Making Rounds: A Hospital Drama
There is a drama performed in hospitals that is as essential and unchanging as davening, or eating breakfast. It’s the doctors’ twice-daily bedside perambulation, known to everyone as “rounds.” Whenever a medical student walks into a patient’s room, it’s an act for both concerned. Perhaps the metaphor is inexact. Each actually wants to tell the…
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Power Struggle Sinks New York Stadium
a power struggle between two of the country’s most influential jewish politicians appears to have torpedoed new york city’s bid to build a new football stadium and bring the 2012 olympics to the big apple. The push for a new stadium had been spearheaded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose dream it was to…
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ADL Posthumously Honors Fiume’s ‘Righteous’ Police Chief
“We must never forget,” said Rosanna Scotto, FOX 5 News co-anchor and emcee of the May 18 Anti-Defamation League Courage to Care Award dinner, which honored Giovanni Palatucci, Fiume, Italy’s chief of police, who, by forging visas and other documents, saved the lives of nearly 5,000 Jews destined for Nazi death camps. Before he was…
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Labor Party Contest Becomes Bitter Fight
TEL AVIV — Three weeks before the primary elections for the leadership of the Labor Party, the sleepy dowager of Israeli politics suddenly seems abuzz with activity. Five men are battling desperately to lead Israel’s second-largest political party and occupy the seat once held by the likes of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin. It is…
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