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Zionist Groups Facing Legal Problems
JERUSALEM — The Zionist movement, created a century ago, has come in for some rough treatment in the Jewish state lately. The World Zionist Organization, Theodor Herzl’s original platform, was singled out as one of the main culprits in a devastating report, submitted to the government last week, on government ministries “and public agencies” whose…
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100-Proof Grogger
We love Purim, but there sure is a lot to do. Like hamantaschen, the holiday is jam-packed. You’ve got to assemble and deliver shalach manot, hear the Megillah twice, give charity, plus eat and drink to excess. How do you fit it all in? This year, make the most of your time by multitasking with…
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Leaders Battle To Head Top Pro-Israel Group
The race to be the next chairman of the American Jewish community’s main pro-Israel umbrella organization is in the home stretch. According to several organizational insiders, millionaire real estate investor Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress, and attorney Joel Kaplan, international president of B’nai Brith, are the top candidates to become chairman of…
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Jewish Museum Hosts Masked Purim Bash
In concert with its new exhibition, “The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons,” the Jewish Museum’s March 2 “Gala Salon” Purim Ball labeled tables with the names of four of its 14 salonières — Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn), Berlin; Gertude Stein, Paris; Florine Stettheimer, New York, and Berta Zuckerkandl, Vienna. Masked arrivals such…
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Israel Unveils New Shoah Museum To a World Still Bent on Destruction
World leaders and delegations from more than 30 nations arrived in Jerusalem Tuesday for the inauguration of the new museum at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial. Rather than further focus on the documentary aspects of the Nazi genocide, the new Holocaust center, which is four times as large as the existing museum, will explore…
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Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave
WASHINGTON — The country’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying organization has put on leave two top officials who are the target of an FBI investigation. Recently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee put Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on paid leave, the Forward has learned. It is not clear what led Aipac to take the step….
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Media Shows Arab Street Still Seethes About Israel
VIENNA — For those banking on democratization to reduce Arab hostility toward Israel, the recent public uprising in Lebanon and the Iraqi and Palestinian elections signaled a societal shift. Freedom is on the march in the Arab street, in this view; greater acceptance of the Jewish state would not be long in coming. But those…
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L.A. Gets a Touch Of (Yiddish) Class
When students show up at the New Community Jewish High School, in West Hills, Calif., next fall, they’ll receive more than the usual lab equipment and volumes of Shakespeare. They’ll be given Yiddish textbooks. Thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, the nondenominational high school will begin offering Yiddish as part of its curriculum, as…
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House Sets Limits on Palestinian Aid As DeLay Defies Calls of Bush, Rice
WASHINGTON — Defying the wishes of the Bush administration, Congress approved a foreign-aid package this week forbidding any direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority and, in a rare snub, denying the president the authority to waive restrictions in the interest of national security. The legislation was approved 388-to-44 in the House of Representatives and is…
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Hip-hop Musician Returns to His Funky Roots
Josh Dolgin thinks the Yiddish revival is over. “Enough talk of this f—-ing revival,” the 28-year-old musician bellowed during a recent phone interview from his home in Montreal. “It’s not a revival anymore — because it’s alive.” And he would know. Dolgin, aka DJ So Called, has pushed Yiddish closer to what is cool and…
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Jewish Officials Profess Shock Over Report on Zionist Body
Embarrassed leaders of American Jewish organizations were absorbing the news this week that an international body under their control was at the center of a tangled Israeli scheme, detailed in a bombshell government report, to build illegal settlement outposts in violation of Israeli law, policy and international commitments. The international body, the World Zionist Organization,…
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