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In Watershed, Israel Deems Land-use Rules of Zionist Icon ‘Discriminatory’
In a landmark decision, Israel’s attorney general ruled last week that one of the fundamental tenets upon which the Jewish state was built — acquiring and reserving land for Jews to live on — is discriminatory and should not continue with state assistance. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz was responding to a Supreme Court case involving…
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Down and Out in the Hollywood Hills: A Reunion
Seth Greenland’s debut novel, “The Bones” (coming out next month from Bloomsbury), follows Lloyd Melnick, a TV comedy writer who has stumbled onto accidental success in Hollywood, and Frank Bones, a racy stand-up comedian whose once-thriving career has stalled. With hopes of hitching his broken-down wagon to Lloyd’s rising star, Frank has arranged a meeting…
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Chabad Prize to Putin Spurring Debate Over Russian’s Actions
WARSAW — Just before the sun set over Auschwitz on January 27, ending the international ceremonies that marked the 60th anniversary of the notorious death camp’s liberation, President Vladimir Putin of Russia stepped forward to receive a medal from Rabbi Berel Lazar, one of the two men who claims the title of chief rabbi of…
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A Brief on Bokser
Last week we observed Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish tree-planting day — or at least it is that in Israel, halfway through whose mild, rainy winter the earth is moist and receptive and the time for planting is ideal. As a boy in a Jewish school in New York, on the other hand, I can remember…
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Jewish Power Struggle Stirs Passion in Prague
PRAGUE — An ugly struggle for control of the Prague Jewish community ended officially late last month when the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities recognized a loose-knit opposition group as the legitimate steward of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities. In fact, however, the fight goes on despite the January 20 decision. The ousted community…
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Prayer Fare: A Look Back at ‘Jewish Science’
‘The Jew of today needs, more than ever, a spiritual influence as a bulwark against worry, fear and anxiety. He needs that source of inspiration that will bring peace to his restless soul, free his heart from forebodings and cares… and replenish the springs of his happiness.” Although these passages strike a decidedly New Age-y…
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U.S. Pick of Envoy To Kiev Ceremony Ignites a Furor
Elation in Washington over Ukraine’s so-called Orange Revolution gave way to red faces this week after the White House was forced to distance itself from a controversial Ukrainian American polemicist who was part of the American delegation to the inauguration of Ukraine’s new president, Viktor Yushchenko. The disputed envoy, Myron Kuropas, a longtime GOP activist…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 4, 2005
On the 115th yahrzeit of poet Mikhl Gordon, the Forverts’s Pearls of Yiddish Poetry featured this famous Maskl. At the time of his life, this movement in which Gordon played a prominent role was the ideological challenger of the Hasidim, who were the fervent advocates of the “good old-time religion” that raised the heart above…
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Synagogues Joining Efforts for Community Organizing
One Tuesday night this past October, Rabbi Mark Raphael and 75 of his congregants from Kehilat Shalom squeezed, along with 1,100 other people, into an Adventist church in Silver Spring, Md. The interfaith crowd had gathered to make some urgent requests. But these requests didn’t come in the forms of prayers, and they weren’t directed…
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Students Pow-wow in Republic of Palau
Last Thursday afternoon, Continental Flight #0014 landed at Newark Airport, and among the passengers streaming out of the plane was a group of 10 teenage boys returning from winter break in the North Pacific. However, this was no ordinary vacation. The teenagers were Orthodox students from the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (Yeshiva University High School…
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Two National Organizations See Departures at the Top
As the battle over President Bush’s second term agenda heats up, two of the most important Jewish organizations dealing with domestic policy are losing top staff members who would have been responsible for formulating a response to the administration’s expected cuts in federal spending on social welfare programs. United Jewish Communities, the national roof body…
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