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Palestinians, Israelis To Seek Additional American Aid
WASHINGTON — As President Bush plans to ask Congress for additional aid for the Palestinian Authority, Israel is preparing the ground for its own supplemental request to help underwrite its planned withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Israel will ask for funds to establish a series of new crossing points along its…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hailing Howard: About 400 Democratic activists came out Sunday to hear former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in Manhattan at SEIU 1199’s union hall. Dean, who appeared to have sewed up the race to head the Democratic National Committee as the Forward went to press, seemed to have changed nothing from the standard red-meat stump speech…
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French Shoah Case May Get New Push
Representatives of about 600 Holocaust survivors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their complaint accusing France’s national railroad company of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by knowingly deporting tens of thousands of Jews. The five-year-old case, Abrams v. Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais, is…
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A Fair and Balanced Look At Al Franken
As political satirists go, Al Franken is in a league of his own. Five Emmy Awards reveal his sublime impact on “Saturday Night Live” as one of its original writers and later as a producer and performer. His books, including “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot” and “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell…
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Send in the Clowns
When Gershon Resnik visits Israel, he feels a little bit like a rock star. A car is sent for him, and he is met by important Israeli community leaders and mobbed by adoring fans who scream with delight the moment he strides onstage. Such is the life of a Jewish clown. Resnik — aka Buffo…
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Point, Click, Chuckle: Jewish Humor Goes Online
From riddles and one-liners to satires and comic strips, the Internet’s trove of Jewish humor goes on and on. This is instant gratification at its best, funnies at your fingertips. Even biographies of your favorite laugh masters have gone digital. The following is a short guide to Jewish knock-knock’s on the Web: JEWHOO! (www.jewhoo.com): For…
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A Rabbi Walks Into a Comedy Club — and Stays
In 1986, after 14 years of faithful service to two different congregations, Rabbi Bob Alper began feeling pulpit fatigue. “I knew something was happening when I’d be conducting services and really looking forward to the announcements,” he told the Forward. “I loved certain aspects of the rabbinate,” he said. “But there were other aspects of…
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Judging a Book By Its Head Covering
Apparently the New York Times Book Review now runs tzitzit checks. Or, in my case, a sheitel check. In her recent essay titled, “The Observant Reader,” Wendy Shalit takes issue with the way Orthodox Judaism is portrayed in various works of fiction. She chastises several fiction writers — myself included — for misrepresenting Orthodoxy, particularly…
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There Once Was a Contest for Laughs…
Forward readers are a funny lot. As part of our “Make Us Laugh” contest, readers wrote limericks that explained, illustrated, analyzed or exemplified a Jewish comic sensibility. And they made us laugh. Entries poured in, from Arizona to Vermont, Illinois to Georgia. Then our panel of comedy judges selected the cream of the crop: Cathy…
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New Report Documents Saudi Funds For Hatred
WASHINGTON — A new report charging Saudi Arabia with funding the spread of anti-American and anti-Jewish invective in mosques across the country is prompting angry reactions in Congress and fueling legislative efforts to sanction the kingdom. The 90-page report published by the Freedom House, a Washington-based nonpartisan institute advocating freedom and democracy worldwide, is a…
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Doggone It, People Like Al Franken
His best-known character was Stuart Smalley, a self-help/group therapy addict with low self-esteem who summed up the 1980s’ cultural obsession with psychobabble. Smalley was based on Franken’s real-life venture into Al-Anon, a 12-step program for friends and family members of alcoholics. In Franken’s case, the friend was his longtime writing partner, Tom Davis. The friendship…
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