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Jewish World Domination: What If It Were True?
Like a trompe l’oeil painting or the lectures of a well-read but deranged academic, each chapter of “The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies,” the first full-length work of, um, scholarship by Heeb magazine editors David Deutsch and Joshua Neuman, operates on a premise that is in equal parts absurd and bizarrely accurate. Recounting tales from…
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A Blast From The Present Returning to the Catskills Past The Author Never Knew
Spring brings out the nostalgia fiend in me; the part that firmly believes Haggadas should hail Maxwell House and kids should hunt for the afikomen between plastic-covered couch cushions. Yes, I romanticize the past — particularly the 1950s New York, kreplach-canasta-Catskills Jewish past, which I missed by a couple of decades and several states, growing…
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Making a Career of Cracking Wise
What do Randy and Jason Sklar have to kvetch about as they enter a new season of their very own TV show? Not much. Slouched on a couch, cracking jokes and watching memorable sports moments on a wide-screen television sounds like every guy’s dream job. And to think, they nearly signed away their humor away…
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Saluting India’s Children
Joseph Spitz is a 16-year-old high school student from California spending the year traveling the world with his father, a Conservative rabbi on sabbatical. At each of his destinations — a list that includes Australia, Japan, China, Singapore and India — Spitz has tried to track down people and places of Jewish interest. NEW DELHI…
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Scandal Stymies Israeli Effort To Pressure Tehran
WASHINGTON — Israeli efforts to secure swift American action against Iran’s nuclear program are being threatened by a stalled presidential nomination and the sudden dismissal of two officials at the country’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying organization. Last week the Forward and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs…
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Hundreds Toast Bronfman at Hillel Tribute
The extended Bronfman family clan was among more than 600 guests at The Pierre Hotel for the April 6 Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life tribute to Edgar M. Bronfman, whose many “hats” include president of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, former president and CEO of the Seagram Company Ltd., father of seven and grandfather…
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‘Old Man’ of Jewish Mafia Key Informant in Killer-cops Case
At first glance, Burton Kaplan hardly seems like a formidable figure, those who know him say. At 71, he’s a bit frail and by all accounts half blind, with one bum eye peering out at the world from behind oversize glasses. He’s soft spoken, with a Brooklyn accent said to be as thick as cholent…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 29, 2005
Once again Al Grand returns to Der Vinkl with another of his Yiddish translations of the works of the Savoyards (Gilbert and Sullivan). Grand has been not only a translator, but also an actor who has performed in his own creations. Indeed his life has been so involved with the Savoyards that his e-mail address…
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Sinking Into Africa’s ‘Poverty Trap’
PABBO, Uganda — Ana quietly joined the line, her 2-year-old daughter, Margaret, in tow. She carefully placed her green and yellow plastic containers behind the hundreds of others, and then joined the other women to chat and to wait for water. It is a daily ritual by which Ana receives water for her family of…
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Campaign Offers Support for Diplomacy
WASHINGTON — The chairman and the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission are among the 100 prominent Americans who have helped launch a campaign to build public support for American efforts to achieve a two-state solution in Israel. The chairman, former Republican governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean, and the vice chairman, former Democratic congressman…
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Questions Raised About Future of Aipac Officials
Well-placed sources in Washington say that America’s most influential pro-Israel lobby and one of its top officials are parting ways. Spokesmen for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee refused to say whether the official, Steve Rosen, who is reportedly under federal investigation, is still employed by the organization. Rosen’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, refused to speak…
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