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Newsdesk March 18, 2005
Gay Parade Slammed Evangelical Christians in America and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are uniting to block an international gay pride parade in Jerusalem this summer. The anti-gay coalition, which includes Israeli lawmakers, aims to collect 1 million signatures opposing the World Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The parade is part of a 10-day global interfaith gay…
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The Curious Contronym
Dan Mosenkis of Fair Lawn, N.J., writes: A while back there was a contest to find English words which meant both one thing and its opposite; the only ones I remember are “cleave” and “sanction.” It occurs to me, though, that the Hebrew root shakhah. also yields two such words, nishkah., “forgotten,” and shakhiah., “common”…
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Felon Elected To Head Council in Brooklyn
A convicted felon has been elected leader of a government-funded Chabad-dominated community council in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Despite serving a 15-month jail term for bank fraud, Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin captured 71% of the 1,208 votes cast in the recent election to head the Crown Heights Community Council. The council, a nonprofit group,…
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Esther’s Iranian Tomb Draws Pilgrims of All Religious Stripes
Though the holiday of Purim is celebrated by Jews worldwide, the story, based as it is in Persia, has special resonance for the Jews of Iran. Recent decades have proved difficult for Persian Jews, many of whom fled the country after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. From a community of about 100,000, now an estimated 25,000…
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From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy
The international community had just learned the cruel truth about the large-scale massacres of innocent people by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The press had done its job: No one could say we didn’t know about it. I was invited by the International Rescue Committee as part of a delegation to go on site. We…
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A Mikveh Celebrates a Birthday and Finds Its Voice
Somewhere in suburban Detroit, my mother and I tread water naked in what could be a petite synagogue rec pool. I am almost 8 years old. A rabbi stands outside the doors. His voice is barely audible as he recites a prayer in Hebrew, which, for all intents and purposes, is Moravian Morse Code. A…
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New Yorkers Hail Their Hometown
Liz Smith, host of the February 14 Citizens for NYC New Yorker for New York Awards dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, recalled 1975, when “… the Daily News headline read: ‘Ford to City: Drop Dead’…. Some courageous people… created a committee… transformed the city via block associations [and] civilian patrols… neighbors working with new neighbors in…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 11, 2005
Al Grand is back with us again, with one of his inimitable translations of Gilbert and Sullivan into Yiddish. The Savoyards, so called because their musicals were performed in the Savoy Hotel’s theater, were and are Grand’s passion. His e-mail address is Savoyid. What follows are passages from G&S’s “Pirates of Penzance” in English, which…
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GOP’s Max Fisher, Tireless Advocate For World Jewry
When Max Fisher died March 3 in Detroit at age 96, the American Jewish community lost a towering leader, whose likes we will not soon see again. The political world lost a wise voice of moderation and compassion. I lost a good friend, someone who shared my views, mentored me and walked down some important…
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Tree Charity Embroiled In New Flap Over Funds
An escalating dispute between the Jewish National Fund in Israel and its American-based fund-raising arm is raising questions about the way the American organization, one of the most prominent names in American philanthropy, is spending its money. The fight revolves around an unpublicized effort by the Jewish National Fund in America to fund other environmental…
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Israel Reaching Out to Dovish Groups In Bid To Counteract Conservatives
WASHINGTON — As part of a recently launched campaign to neutralize Jewish and evangelical opposition to the Gaza disengagement plan, Israeli diplomats are reaching out to liberal American organizations that have historically aligned themselves with the peace camp in Israel. Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Danny Ayalon, is slated to take part in a March 14…
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