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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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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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Israeli Designer Goes Her Own Way
Roni Rabl has a name for women who have a difficult time finding clothes that fit: She calls them “the forgotten.” And so after 20 years as a designer, she decided it was time to help remember them. Last summer, Rabl and her daughter, Yael Edelist, opened Rootchi, an elegant store specializing in so-called “missy”…
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Bush Plan for Funding Of Palestinians Facing Resistance in Congress
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s efforts to revive the Palestinian economy and boost the peace process with a quick infusion of American aid is facing stiff resistance from some pro-Israel forces on Capitol Hill. Supporters of the assistance fear that the stringent conditions being proposed by opponents to the Palestinian aid package will slow down…
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A Robot Speaks, and Online Fans Express Joy
Christmas Eve comes with a lot of anticipation for those who celebrate the holiday. But for thousands of Jewish fans of the online comic strip “ShaBot6000,” anticipation took a different form: On December 24, 2004, their favorite cartoon character spoke. The creation of animator William Levin, ShaBot6000 is a “try-weekly” (he tries to get one…
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New Fiscal Chief at Seminary Resigns Post Amid Debt Crisis
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s new chief financial officer has resigned after just three months on the job at a time when the institution, the flagship of Conservative Judaism, is facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis. The departure of CFO Richard Bengloff marks the second resignation in four months of a top seminary financial officer….
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