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Extremists Set To Mark Milestones
American extremist groups are preparing to celebrate a series of notorious anniversaries next week, prompting concerns about increased efforts to recruit a new generation into the numerous white supremacist and anti-government organizations operating across the country. The planned celebrations center on two dates: April 19, the day in 1993 that federal agents stormed the Branch…
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Pope Oversaw Big Changes In Catholic-Jewish Relations
During his long reign as vicar of Rome, Pope John Paul II oversaw sweeping, historic changes in the Catholic Church and in the role of religion in world affairs. But none of the pope’s initiatives was more fundamental, or more emblematic of the man, than the transformation of Catholic-Jewish relations. The change began with Nostra…
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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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Pontiff Received an Unlikely Rabbinical Blessing at Vatican
How does a rabbi feel when he meets the pope? As a 10th-generation rabbi, that’s something I thought was about as likely to happen to me as playing the romantic lead in a Julia Roberts movie. My world is the ivory tower of Jewish academia, not the Vatican. The people I’m used to seeing with…
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Interfaith Leaders Ponder Future of Jewish-Catholic Ties
With the passing of Pope John Paul II, Jewish and Catholic interfaith leaders are voicing concern that future pontiffs could fail to carry on his groundbreaking efforts to deepen relations with the Jewish people. “We know [John Paul’s] teachings while he was alive,” said Rabbi James Rudin, senior interreligious adviser at the American Jewish Committee….
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Hosni Mubarak’s All-out War Against Democracy in Egypt
On the road to democracy in the Middle East, Egypt’s Mubarak regime has once again declared an all-out war against my country’s small contingent of liberals. Small in number as these liberals may be, five of them — including myself — recently declared their intention to run in the presidential elections scheduled for September. They…
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Nazi-Looted Artwork At Issue in NPR Flap
National Public Radio has suspended a veteran New York arts journalist indefinitely after he prepared what the network called an unfair report on the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. The report, by freelance journalist David D’Arcy, focused on a legal struggle for control of a painting looted by the Nazis from a Viennese Jewish art…
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Safe at Home
In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s death, conservative Christian activists are pushing Republican lawmakers to detonate the so-called nuclear option — a change of Senate rules that would block Democrats from filibustering judicial nominations. As the Senate returned to session this week, several Christian conservative groups were running ads urging the Republicans to eliminate the…
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