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Only Systematic Reform Can Save Scandal-Ridden United Nations
FORWARD FORUM A report detailing rampant corruption in the United Nations’s oil-for-food program for Iraq was released on Tuesday by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. The misdeeds of Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son detailed in the report are perhaps more egregious than previous transgressions at the U.N. They, however, are only the latest ethical…
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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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Watchdogs: Zionist Charity Shortchanging Programs
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs. In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development…
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Feminists Criticized Over Silence
Posted on the Web site of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance is a prayer composed by Rabbi Mordecai Tendler on behalf of agunot — Jewish women who are unable to obtain a religious divorce decree from their husbands. Tendler’s touching supplication, asking God to “deliver all the agunot from the bonds of their plight,” aptly…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Middle East Mayor: Rep. Anthony Weiner, running in a large Democratic field for the party’s nod to challenge New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, has been focusing on issues of interest to Jewish voters as the key to assembling an outer-borough ethnic coalition. “The Democratic Party is the anti-terrorism party,” the Queens lawmaker said…
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