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World Cup Finals Riveting Israel
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon is conducting the political high-wire act of his life. Relations with Washington are tense over the planned expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Security agencies warn that Jewish extremists are planning their worst to stop the disengagement plan. Last week, however, those dramas took a back seat to…
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Lifting a Ray Of Sunlight From An Otherwise Bleak Historical Chapter
In July 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened a conference in Evian, France, to discuss the plight of Nazi-occupied Europe’s Jewish refugees. Thirty-two nations attended, but nearly all refused to open their borders. In a world turned upside down by war, only the Dominican Republic’s military dictator, Rafael Trujillo, agreed to let in Jews, effectively…
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Attacks Expected After Gaza Withdrawal
Israel’s military command expects a new round of Palestinian attacks this fall, after Israel completes its withdrawal from Gaza and northern West Bank. The assessment is based partly on the pace of weapons smuggling to the West Bank detected by intelligence agencies in recent months, and partly on intercepted orders from Damascus, according to a…
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Where the Torah Meets the Torus
While watching a science fiction program alone in his Newton, Mass., apartment in 1968, Stan Tenen saw a strange code flash across the screen, prompting him to consult the opening passage of Genesis — in the original Hebrew. “This was a strange urge,” he admits in one of his instructional videos, “because I didn’t know…
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Waiver Expected on P.A. Aid
WASHINGTON — Just weeks after the House of Representatives passed a bill barring any direct financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, the Senate is expected to pass a version giving the president the right to waive the controversial restriction. Sources intimately familiar with the legislative process on Capitol Hill said that House and Senate leaders…
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Foundation Sings of Harmony at Songstress Denise Rich’s Home
At the March 16 benefit for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, held at songwriter Denise Rich’s Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, home, Lawrence Kopp, the foundation’s executive director, lauded the hostess as “a prolific philanthropist.” Kopp cited the foundation’s programs, which include an antisemitism campaign and the Shared Dreams High School and College Curriculum Guide Project with…
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Bush Sends Message About Settlements
WASHINGTON — In advance of the latest Mideast summit, the Bush administration is giving stiff messages to both Israelis and Palestinians in the raging debate over borders and Jewish settlement expansion. Administration officials have advised the Palestinian Authority against premature discussions of borders. They are also warning Israel not to determine future borders by unilaterally…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 8, 2005
Stanley Siegelman returns to Der Vinkl once again with an unusual news item and an equally unusual poem in his Yinglish — with its English and Yiddish variants. Here’s the way he describes his subject: Scientists reported a dramatic decline in the sperm count of European men; their findings caused concern as to whether the…
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Coming to (Wrong) Conclusions
A nonpartisan commission appointed by President Bush has completed a study of the reasons that we went to war in Iraq. It concluded its research with a lengthy statement that scourges the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency for misinforming the president on the true situation in Iraq and for feeding…
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Joe’s Filibuster Shift Shows Senate’s Polarization
For one measure of the toxic, partisan atmosphere in the Republican-controlled Senate, consider the predicament of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. In 1995, the arch-centrist joined a fellow Democrat, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, in proposing a rule change that would have kept the 60 votes presently required for “cloture” of a Senate filibuster, but decreased…
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Bush Democracy Guru Takes Hits Over Jerusalem Deal
On the cover of the latest issue of Pat Buchanan’s magazine, The American Conservative, the face of Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky peers out from what appears to be a vintage wanted poster. “Who Is This Man?” the headline screams. “Why Are His Ideas Guiding U.S. Policy?” The dramatic cover and searing critique inside represented…
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