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Billionaire Liberals Seek To Fund Idea Mills
A handful of ultra-wealthy Jewish liberals are resolving to do battle with conservatives by providing a big infusion of cash to progressive think tanks and idea mills. New York-based financier George Soros, Cleveland insurance king Peter Lewis and Oakland, Calif., banking magnates Herb and Marian Sandler made the pledge at a meeting in San Francisco…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 21, 2005
In the last issue of Der Vinkl, we featured Itzik Manger on the occasion of his 35th yahrzeit. Manger was known as “the people’s poet,” exploring the moods and modes of the masses. One of Manger’s most famous poems was written during World War II. He dedicated it to martyr Shmuel Zygelboym, who committed suicide…
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CIA-Linked Study Warns Of Bio-Terrorist Attacks During the Next 15 Years
WASHINGTON — A CIA-affiliated think tank is predicting that America is “likely” to be hit by bio-terrorist attacks at some point in the next 15 years. According to two recently released reports from respected think tanks, the country is still unprepared for strikes involving biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox. Taken together, the think…
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An Eve Where Italian Was the Mameloshn
“It is an honor to be part of the work of the Center for Jewish History,” said Antonio Bandini, Italy’s consul general in New York, at last month’s “A Conversation With Nedo Fiano on His Book, ‘Il Coraggio Di Vivere,’” sponsored by the center, the Centro Culturale Primo Levi, The Jewish Heritage Project, New York…
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Abbas Is Willing To Use Force Against Hamas, Adviser Says
RAMALLAH — Although the new Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, is publicly committed to ending attacks on Israel through agreements with groups such as Hamas, the authority is prepared to use force unilaterally if talks fail, a top Abbas adviser told the Forward. “For those factions who either are not willing to reach an agreement…
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Showdown Set on Gay-Vows Rabbi
A showdown is set for next week between the Conservative movement’s rabbinical union and one of its younger members, who claims she is facing expulsion because of her activism on behalf of gay and lesbian Jews. Rabbi Joel Meyers, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, acknowledges that one of his organization’s committees has recommended…
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Orthodox Rabbis Launch Book Ban
Dozens of prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis are backing an international effort to ban a fellow rabbi’s books, arguing that the works are heretical because they suggest the earth is much older than a literal reading of Genesis would suggest. The target of the campaign is Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, an ultra-Orthodox author known as the “Zoo Rabbi,”…
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Report: Iraq Now Tops Afghanistan As Terror Central
In what appears to be a devastating two-part blow to the Bush administration’s prewar case for toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. military has called off its failed two-year search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and a CIA-linked report claims that the Middle East country has replaced Afghanistan as the main training ground for…
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Groups Sign on to Abortion Rights Effort
WASHINGTON — America’s two largest synagogue movements and several major national Jewish agencies are joining a campaign to oppose attempts to outlaw abortion, arguing that reproductive rights are a religious freedom. The campaign was launched this week by the National Council of Jewish Women on the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kerry Forth: Cameron Kerry, Senator John’s Jewish brother, has joined the executive committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council. The post carries hefty duties: Committee members must pledge or raise $25,000 a year for the group. Cameron Kerry told the Forward he signed on “to continue the involvement I had in the campaign in outreach…
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Israel Blasted in Report On Survivors
JERUSALEM — Many European Holocaust victims looked to Israeli banks to serve as a refuge for their assets during World War II, but a new report suggests that it was an imperfect refuge at best. A Knesset committee issued a report Tuesday detailing thousands of accounts in Israeli banks that were never returned to Holocaust…
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