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N.Y. School Board Bans a Controversial Arab Professor
A pro-Palestinian professor at Columbia University, hailed by some Jewish students as a model instructor, is being barred by the New York City Department of Education from lecturing public-school teachers. A spokesman for the school board attributed the move against Rashid Khalidi, the Arab-American director of Columbia’s Middle East Institute, to “past statements” on the…
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Plan To Combat Sexual Abuse Unveiled
A rabbi at the forefront of efforts to curb abuse in the Orthodox community is launching an initiative to certify organizations that adopt policies to combat the problem. The rabbi, Mark Dratch, told the Forward that he is planning to leave his post as religious leader of Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Conn., in “six…
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Hadassah Pushing Stem-cell Legislation
In a move that is likely to bring it into conflict with Catholic and Evangelical Christian groups, the largest Jewish organization in America is launching a push for pro-stem-cell-research legislation in state houses around the country. Hadassah, the 300,000-member women’s Zionist organization, is bringing hundreds of advocates to the capitals of 47 states this spring…
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Divestment Pushed
The World Council of Churches this week voted to urge its members across the globe to divest from Israel to protest the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinians. The action took Jewish communal leaders by surprise, much like the divestment vote last July by the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Presbyterian vote jump-started an international bandwagon of…
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Top Palestinian Activist To Address Policy Conference
WASHINGTON — America’s largest Jewish policymaking body will host an unlikely guest at its annual gathering this weekend in Washington: the head of America’s most prominent pro-Palestinian advocacy group. Ziad Asali, founder and president of the American Task Force on Palestine, will participate in a special discussion on March 1 at the annual policy plenum…
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Barak Denounces Sharon as ‘Corrupt’
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak denounced his successor, Ariel Sharon, as corrupt and unelectable. Speaking Monday to the Knesset television channel, Barak, who is running anew for the Labor Party leadership, said that Sharon and his sons, Omri and Gilad, are “corrupt to the core,” adding, “In a civilized country, given such an accumulation…
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With Eyes on Iran, Arab Countries May Pursue Nukes
WASHINGTON — As the White House struggles to contain the nuclear ambitions of Iran, Israeli security officials and American experts are urging the Bush administration to prevent other Middle Eastern countries from developing nuclear weapons. Developments in Iran could end up fueling nuclear pushes in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey, according to Israeli…
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Bush Mum After Saudis’ Antisemitic Comments
Democrats are slamming President Bush for failing to condemn antisemitic remarks made during a high-level counterterrorism conference in Saudi Arabia that was attended by his top homeland security adviser. At the conference, a Saudi poet recited a poem in which he condemned Osama bin Laden before declaring that the Al Qaeda chief “was sent by…
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Artscroll Readers of All Stripes Find Meaning in Translation
Just before 6 a.m. on each weekday, members of Toronto’s Beth Avraham Yosef synagogue make their way across a snowy parking lot to the first of the congregation’s three daily Talmud classes. About half of them are holding under their arms a volume of the Artscroll Talmud. According to the synagogue’s religious leader, Rabbi Baruch…
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A Novel Takes Talmudic Shape
Apikoros Sleuth By Robert Majzels The Mercury Press, 110 pages, $19.95. —– Quebec translator, playwright and novelist Robert Majzels has composed his most demanding work in his third novel, “Apikoros Sleuth,” as he stretches the genre to its limits. Replete with Joycean puns, neologisms and vertical, horizontal, and marginal lines in Hebrew, Aramaic, English, French,…
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Full Cycle: Celebrating 2,711 Days of Text Study
On March 1, tens of thousands of Jews will join together to celebrate an event called the Siyum HaShas at numerous locations across the country, including New York’s Madison Square Garden. This celebration marks the completion of the entire Babylonian Talmud, a culmination of seven-and-one-half years of study at an inexorable page-a-day pace, known in…
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