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Yid.Dish: Israeli Chocolate-Coated Orange Peels
Israeli Chocolate-Coated Orange Peels From About.com You’ll want to use low spray or organic oranges for this recipe, if you can find them, since the peel of the orange absorbs the toxins sprayed on the fruit. If low or no spray oranges are used, you may be able to skip or shorten the first soaking…
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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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Following Baby’s Death, Orthodox Group Urges Followers To Drop Disputed Ritual
In response to the death of a New York baby boy from herpes, the top union of Modern Orthodox rabbis is urging Jews to abandon the ancient ritual practice of suctioning the blood by mouth directly from the baby’s penis during circumcision. The Rabbinical Council of America, representing more than 1,000 rabbis, issued a policy…
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Bushes ‘Touched’ by Holocaust Documentary
WASHINGTON — “Paper Clips,” a new documentary film chronicling Tennessee schoolchildren’s efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, has secured a thumbs-up from two high-profile viewers: President Bush and his wife, Laura. The film was screened at the White House on February 19, just hours before Bush left for his trip to Europe. It chronicles the story…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kate’s Brooklyn Bundle: Rep. Katherine Harris, a Florida Republican, is refusing to return $20,000 in contributions she received from five individuals associated with the Postville, Iowa, Agriprocessors plant, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune. The Postville plant, one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in America, was the subject of an exposé last year…
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Destined To Clash: Zionism and the Settlements
Lords of the Land: The Settlers and the State of Israel, 1967-2004 By Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan Dvir Publishing House. * * *| Many studies exist detailing one aspect or another of the story of Israel’s settlement of its occupied territories. None, however, in Hebrew or in any other language, has tried…
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Rosenthal Decries ‘Disgraceful Silence of Complacency’
WASHINGTON — In her final speech as executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Hannah Rosenthal called on the organization’s members to voice “a lot more outrage” in the face of the Bush administration’s significant cuts to social-service programs. “This is a time that begs that we speak out on injustices,” said Rosenthal,…
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Top Jewish Council Urges Congress Not To Block Plan for Palestinian Aid
WASHINGTON — Congress is being urged by a top Jewish public-policy organization to approve the Bush administration’s request for $350 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, even as prominent Jewish lawmakers fight the proposal. A resolution calling on Congress to “to fund” the aid proposal “in its entirety” was passed unanimously Monday at…
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Critic of Gaza Plan Tapped To Head Media Campaign
A vocal critic of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan has been tapped by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to spearhead a new program aimed at selling Jerusalem’s side of the story to foreign journalists in the region. The Philadelphia federation gave $100,000 to launch the new Jerusalem office of The Israel Project — an organization…
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Poll: Attachment of U.S. Jews To Israel Falls in Past 2 Years
The attachment of American Jews to Israel has weakened measurably in the last two years, a recent survey demonstrates, continuing a long-term trend visible during the past decade and a half. The weakening is apparent in almost every measure of Jewish connection to Israel except for interest in travel to Israel, which showed a slight…
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Hard-wired Grammar
A perennially debated issue in linguistics in recent decades has been the question of just what aspects of language are “hard-wired” into our brains and what aspects are contingent on chance developments affecting specific languages or groups of languages. Take the basic word order of the simplest sentences that we utter. If you wish to…
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