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THE FOOD MAVEN by Matthew Goodman Soup is among the oldest of all foods; in biblical times, earthenware pots placed on clay stands were used to prepare soups made from vegetables and pulses and flavored with onion and garlic. Prominent among those pulses were lentils, out of which Jacob made a very famous soup, the…
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The Frozen Chosen How the Israeli Bobsled Team Slid Into Existence
If you think an Israeli bobsled team seems like an alien concept, you are not alone. Call the Israeli Olympic Committee, and chances are you’ll be told that the team doesn’t exist. “We don’t have a bobsled team. Not from Israel. No, no, no,” office manager Etty Glickman said. Her colleague, Rakeset Waintraub, had said…
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Broadway Bigs Get Boosts
“It would have been lovelier if Jerry were standing here,” host Marian Seldes said — referring to originally designated emcee Jerry Orbach — at the January 24 Theater Hall of Fame “Lifetime in the Theater 2004 Induction Awards” ceremony at the Gershwin Theatre. Lynn Meadows, artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, described honoree set/costume…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 18, 2005
Yosef Bovshover was one of the “proletarian poets” whose works were well known in the late 1890s. He was the least famous of a group of four poets who dedicated their works to championing the cause of working people. The other three were Morris Winchevsky, Morris Rosenfeld and David Edelstadt. On the occasion of Bovshover’s…
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French, American Communal Aides in New Spat
In the latest incarnation of trans-Atlantic Jewish tensions, the leader of the French Jewish umbrella organization is blasting a rich Californian philanthropist for accusing European Jewish groups of offering only a tepid response to antisemitism. The fight centers on a letter that Newton Becker, a Los Angeles-based supporter of several pro-Israeli organizations and initiatives, wrote…
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Killing of Lebanon Ex-premier Boding Ill for Entire Mideast
The Valentine’s Day massacre that shook downtown Beirut on Monday, killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and at least a dozen others, is bad news not just for Lebanon but also for the region. Hariri, who had dominated Lebanon’s politics since the end of the civil war there in 1990, was killed when a…
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Authorities Tighten Security in Israel After Ministers Get Death Threats
JERUSALEM — Israel’s police and security service chiefs ordered intensified guard around top officials this week after a series of death threats were made against Cabinet ministers and others by opponents of Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza-West Bank disengagement plan. Last Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting heard from ministers who read aloud from threatening letters that they…
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GOP Ads Try To Tie Dean To Terrorism
A Jewish Republican group greeted Howard Dean’s election to chair the Democratic National Committee this week with an ad campaign seeking to depict him as a supporter of terrorism. The group, the Republican Jewish Coalition, placed full-page advertisements in the Washington newspaper Roll Call and in Jewish weeklies around the country, featuring a large picture…
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Groups in Budget Battle To Save Refugee Relief
With congressional inaction leading to thousands of elderly refugees being cut off from their only source of income, and thousands more facing a similar prospect, a handful of Jewish organizations have launched an emergency legislative campaign. Since late 2003, refugees have been facing the end of their Supplementary Security Income, or SSI benefits, because of…
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Y.U. Chief’s Quiet Gambit Creates Space for Change
Richard Joel, president of Yeshiva University, will not be in attendance when hundreds of Orthodox liberals gather Sunday in New York for the biennial Edah conference. The official explanation: He has a previously scheduled out-of-town fund-raising event. Joel’s absence, however, is likely to be interpreted by many attendees as a capitulation to right-wing rabbis at…
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AJCommittee Opposes GOP Senate Plan
WASHINGTON — The campaign to stop Senate Republicans from banning filibusters on federal judicial nominees received a boost this week from an influential Jewish civil-rights agency. After sitting on the fence for months, the American Jewish Committee decided to oppose changes to the Senate filibuster regulations proposed by GOP leaders. The proposed changes are aimed…
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