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Aipac’s Rosen Expects Indictment
WASHINGTON — Steve Rosen, recently terminated as policy director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, expects to be indicted as soon as June, according to sources familiar with the case. Rosen has vehemently denied violating federal law and knowingly transmitting classified information. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, has issued a statement saying, “Steve Rosen never…
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The Week Stops At Grand Central For Middle East ‘Conversation’
The eclectic list of guests that flooded Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse in Grand Central Terminal on April 14 for an installment of The Week magazine’s “Conversation” series, titled, “Middle East Peace: What Will It Take?” — moderated by the magazine’s editor at large, Sir Harold Evans — included actors Christopher Walken and Daniel Day-Lewis; music industry…
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FBI Probe: More Questions Than Answers
WASHINGTON — More than a week after a Pentagon official was charged with passing secret information to two employees of Washington’s pro-Israel lobby, Jewish communal leaders are still puzzled about the FBI’s investigation into the scandal. “There still are more questions than answers out there,” said one Jewish communal official, after participating Monday in a…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 13, 2005
Once again, Dr. Joan Braman returns to Der Vinkl with her astute translations of English classics into Yiddish. This time we have the opening and closing stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s… Ode to the West Wind O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven…
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Animal Group Apologizes
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, apologized last week for the group’s 2003 “Holocaust on Your Plate” ad campaign, which juxtaposed images of World War II concentration camps with contemporary images of animal mistreatment. Without the fanfare that usually accompanies announcements from the famously media-savvy group, the apology was quietly…
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Newsdesk May 13, 2005
Meridor To Step Down The chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sallai Meridor, announced that he will step down from his position in June. After six years as head of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, Meridor said he would leave after the Jewish Agency’s board of governors’ meeting next month, a…
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Seeking ‘A New Way To Daven’
While the bulk of synagogue reform initiatives have originated in Conservative and Reform circles, renewal efforts have also emerged recently in the Orthodox community. Last week, the Orthodox Union — which represents some 1,000 congregations — announced a first-time grant competition to reward synagogues for displaying innovative programming that strengthens congregational or community life. Starting…
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Shamash U.: A School For Unsung Heroes
It is an unsung job with many names: shamash, sexton, beadle, ritual director, hazzan sheini — even bar or bat mitzvah teacher. Whatever you call it, synagogue movement insiders say, the real problem is the dearth of skilled laymen who are willing and able to step in. Whether the task is chanting Torah, blowing shofar…
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Genocidal Threats Demand More Than Just Memorializing
The recent opening of Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and of Yad Vashem’s new museum in Jerusalem are important and welcome developments. But we must go beyond our singular focus on memorializing the Holocaust. We must help people realize that genocidal violence is a threat to all people. We must demand of…
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An Awakened Soul
Is spiritual development really as important as intellectual development? Today, one often finds in Jewish culture a mutual suspicion between those who value intellectual education (and its likely material consequences) and the “spiritual” types who like to chant, meditate and “explore their feelings.” On the one side, many well-schooled Jewish adults regard today’s would-be mystics…
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Ukrainians Want Jews Probed on War Crimes
TORONTO — For years, the Ukrainian-Canadian community has been on the defensive over the Jewish community’s allegations that Nazi war criminals — many of them of Ukrainian origin — were living in Canada. Now, a Ukrainian-Canadian organization has turned the tables by accusing several elderly Jews of having been involved in Soviet war crimes. The…
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