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To Hurt It Can’t Hurt
‘B’seder, le’hazik zeh lo yazik,” a visitor to my house said the other day when I offered him an aspirin for the headache he’d complained of. In Hebrew, his remark was perfectly normal. Translated literally into English, however, it would sound rather strange, to wit: “All right, to hurt it can’t hurt.” In more ordinary…
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Rightists Vowing To Bring Battle To Israel Streets
JERUSALEM — With the last parliamentary hurdles cleared before Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza-West Bank disengagement plan, opponents declared this week that they were taking their battle to the streets. “The time for politics is over,” the chairman of the Gaza Coast Regional Council, Avner Shimoni, told protesters who had gathered outside the Knesset on Monday,…
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What Home Office? You’re Just a Writer!
The IRS owes me $16.35, but I’m afraid to ask them for it. So I decided to complain instead. To you. Sixteen dollars and 35 cents is what it cost me to purchase, develop and mail one roll of Kodak black-and-white, 35mm film to the IRS office in Oakland, Calif. This expenditure of my money…
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Prom on Passover Rankles Teenagers In Illinois Suburb
For many American teenagers, the list of essential rites-of-passage is relatively short: Get a driver’s license, tear open a college acceptance letter and, whether or not you’re destined to be voted king or queen, attend the high school prom. Jennifer Mann, a senior at Warren Township High School in Gurnee, Ill., who is headed to…
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Has Anyone Seen a Wedding Ring?
In between patients, each room in the hospital has a life of its own: The operating theater is prepped for another run; the delivery room is ready for another baby to come down the pike. Everything’s sterilized and rearranged. While the attendants and residents wolf down their cheeseburgers, a medical student (that’s me) retreats to…
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Power Struggle Wracking Jewish Vigilante Group
A power struggle is tearing apart a right-wing vigilante group that once served as the stander bearer of Jewish militancy in America. The Jewish Defense League, founded in 1968 by late militant rabbi Meir Kahane, has been in a virtual tailspin since 2001, according to experts who monitor extremist groups. It was then that Irv…
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Red, Red Wine
Every year, just about now, the public is dutifully informed that Passover is around the corner. Advertisements tout the virtues of this or that brand of gefilte fish, while supermarket shelves fill up with boxes of matzo, Pesachdik cookies and foodstuffs from Israel, all of which is destined straight for the Seder table. Wine merchants,…
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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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IDF Chief Voices Optimism at New York Gala
A satellite question-and-answer session with Israel’s Prime Minister Sharon was a highlight of the March 15 Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Gala Dinner, attended by more than 1200 Israeli army supporters from around the country. I had quick chats with Malcolm Hoenlein, Raphael (Rafi) Rothstein, Joshua Matza, Fanya Heller, Sam Bloch, Gabriel Erem, Marc…
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Children Forced To Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War
GULU, Uganda — It is much harder, Nelson Oyet explains in a monotone, to hack a child with a machete than to shoot him with a gun. He is 16. Jennifer Atira recounts in a halting voice how she was given as a “wife,” at 13, to a commander twice her age who would beat…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 1, 2005
On his 50th yahrzeit, Yosef Rolnick was featured in the Forverts on the pages of Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. He was known in his time (1879-1955) as one of the Di Junge poets. But in one major respect he was different from most of the others who focused on social, economic and political subjects. Rolnick…
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