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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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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 10, 2005
Once more Joan Braman returns to Der Vinkl with her translation of English classics into Yiddish. Except this time, the English poet is really a Scot named Robert Burns (1759-1796). One of seven children born to a hard-working and very intelligent farmer and his wife, Burns was truly a people’s poet. He never hesitated to…
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Restraint Follows Attacks by Hamas, Islamic Jihad
SDEROT, Israel — Israeli officials were doing their best to maintain restraint and resist pressure to respond in kind to Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks in Gaza and the Negev on Tuesday, the bloodiest day in the territories since February’s Sharm el-Sheikh regional summit. The Palestinian attacks, by the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic…
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Congress To Monitor Aid to Palestinians
WASHINGTON — Congress is taking the unprecedented step of establishing an in-house oversight apparatus to monitor daily how American aid money to the Palestinian Authority is being spent. Rep. Jim Kolbe, the Arizona Republican spearheading the effort as chairman of the House subcommittee dealing with foreign aid appropriations, said that the new system will monitor…
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Standing at Sinai… Holding a Very Small Hand
God knows I’m no theologian. But as we approach Shavuot, I do think about the whole idea of revelation. I don’t care to hypothesize about whether God gave us the Torah all at once, in a big ol’ Sinai thunderclap, or whether Torah is given over and over as we discover new planets, create new…
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Authorities Probe Nursing Home Death
Police and government officials are investigating an incident at a nursing home in Rochester, N.Y., involving two female residents that was first reported as a homicide involving a 94-year-old victim and an 85-year-old suspect. Authorities now say criminal charges are unlikely, citing the mental state of the younger resident. Neither woman’s name has been released….
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Canadian Financier’s Rapid Climb Ends
TORONTO — Israeli-born financial wunderkind Boaz Manor generated national headlines earlier this year when he returned to his native country after being served with a court order by Canadian authorities investigating his failed hedge fund. Now, Manor’s father, Daniel, himself a leading businessman, is defending his son’s decision to head back to Israel. Daniel Manor,…
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