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Owner of Patriots Unveils Field of Dreams in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Standing last week on the finest piece of artificial grass in Israel’s capital, Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, raised this year’s Super Bowl trophy in his right hand and took an ancient oath. “If I forget you, oh Jerusalem,” he declared, “may my right hand wither.” Fresh off his team’s…
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Bringing Up Baby –– and Doctor
Even God needs help when making miracles. He sent a wind to split the Red Sea rather than doing it directly; Moses took intensive elocution lessons before he could shout the Ten Commandments down to the Israelites, and the walls of Jericho could well have been jerry-built by history’s first unscrupulous contractors. Add to this…
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Literary Scholar Gila Ramras-Rauch
Gila Ramras-Rauch, an internationally distinguished scholar of Hebrew, Israeli and Holocaust literature and a leading authority on the writings of Aharon Appelfeld, died February 16 in her home in Brookline, Mass. She was 71. Ramras-Rauch was the Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Boston’s Hebrew College, where she taught for 23…
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New York Meets ‘Chicago’ at Red Ball Bash
The arrival of Catherine Zeta-Jones with husband Michael Douglas at the February 7 Red Ball at The Pierre dazzled the 500 guests, celebrities and paparazzi, who went into flash overdrive. Alluding to event honorees Carey Lowell and her husband, Richard Gere, emcee Christine Baranski gushed, “This feels like a ‘Chicago’ reunion” — a reference to…
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Poet Peretz Kaminsky, 88, Worked To Preserve Yiddish
Peretz Kaminsky, an artist and poet, died February 24 in New York. He was 88. The author of four volumes of published poetry — “Reflections in The Eye of God, ” “Adam, Cain and Other Prayers,” “Book of Rituals” and “Book of Questions” — Kaminsky is best remembered for his contributions to modern Yiddish culture…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 4, 2005
By now, the special style and use of Yinglish (a mix of Yiddish and English) by our regular contributor, Stanley Siegelman, is known by readers of Der Vinkl. A goodly part of his genius is his rare ability to find subjects that bypass most of us. And in this column he does it again, with…
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Newsdesk March 4, 2005
Police Offer Reward The Houston police are offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest and charges against the perpetrators of an unprecedented rash of antisemitic hate crimes that has boggled authorities. Fourteen acts of vandalism and phone threats against Jewish temples and community centers have been reported in the greater Houston…
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Rabbis To Ponder Movement’s Future
With hundreds of Conservative rabbis set to descend on Houston next week, movement leaders are pledging to take a hard look at the future of their religious movement. At a time when some say the Conservative movement is at a crossroads, and perhaps suffering an identity crisis as its membership dwindles, some 300 rabbis are…
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U. of Michigan Receives Gift Of $20 Million
The University of Michigan has received a $20 million gift to establish a research institute for Jewish studies. The money, donated by Samuel and Jean Frankel, will be used to bring together 14 scholars from every field of Jewish studies to spend two semesters together, in one building, with no teaching obligations. The Frankels created…
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Tax Filing Triggers Buzz Over Executive’s Pay
The salary of Malcolm Hoenlein, arguably the most influential chief executive of any Jewish representative organization, was the subject of a flurry of discussion this week among communal insiders. But Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, insisted that the fuss was misplaced. Hoenlein earned $819,939 in…
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Rabbis To Ponder Movement’s Future
With hundreds of Conservative rabbis set to descend on Houston next week, movement leaders are pledging to take a hard look at the future of their religious movement. At a time when some say the Conservative movement is at a crossroads, and perhaps suffering an identity crisis as its membership dwindles, some 300 rabbis are…
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