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Newsdesk March 11, 2005
Israeli Bank Investigated Israel’s largest bank, Bank Hapoalim, launched a major damage-control effort this week to reassure international markets of its stability after 24 employees of a high-profile Tel Aviv branch were arrested as part of a major money-laundering investigation. Police said that the branch, which caters to a small number of affluent clients, had…
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U.S. Foes of Pullout Mobilize To Sink Plan
Israeli and American Orthodox opponents of the Gaza disengagement plan are stepping up efforts to sink the initiative. New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an outspoken Orthodox lawmaker who represents the ultra-Orthodox sections of Brooklyn, is leading a mission next week to Gaza in support of Jewish settlers there. Hikind told the Forward that the…
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Report Blasts Legal Violations Regarding Settlements
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Sharon was poised this week to announce sweeping new measures to dismantle settlement outposts and stop new ones being built, after a scathing report that he commissioned pointed to large-scale collusion in “blatant violation of the law” by government ministries and other official bodies. The report, authored by former chief state…
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Whew! The Unsung Art of Whistling Returns
In the fictional shtetl of Frampol, the home of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Gimpel the Fool, whistling on the Sabbath would have been strictly forbidden, and whistling a tune at night was known to bring out the demons. During the Holocaust, the simple act of whistling a familiar melody became a mode of communication in the…
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Goodbye to an Old Friend
March 1, 2005. My cat, Sebastian, died early this morning. He’d been in my life for 15 years. When I was single, I cried into his fur after every heartbreak. When I moved cross-country to live with my new boyfriend, Jonathan, Sebastian came, too. When Jonathan and I, now married, moved back to New York,…
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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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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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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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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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