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Three’s a Crowd?: After Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois was tapped this week to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, some observers were joking nervously that the Dems were stacking their leadership with too many big-city Jews. After all, Senator Charles Schumer of New York recently was named head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,…
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Right Mobilizes Against Gaza Pullout As Bush, Sharon Plan To Meet Abbas
A revisionist study of Palestinian demographics — undermining the arguments for Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan —was given red carpet treatment this week at several American citadels of pro-Israel support, including two conservative think tanks and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The controversial study, which was presented this week at…
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The Mamele Returns
Hi, I’m back. Don’t hug me; I am caked in sputum and sticky with breast milk. I am also angsting over how to file a column between bouts of nursing Maxine, who still won’t take a bottle with any predictability after 2.5 months on Earth; doing endless loads of laundry; pinching Josie’s nosebleeds, and deferring…
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Justice Comes to Neshoba County: Revisiting a Time of Hate in Mississippi
There were things that happened to me in Mississippi I never told my parents: the shotgun in my belly as I backed out of the Canton A&W Root Beer Stand, standing between that sorry old man and the black kids who had gone inside after an outing we had organized; the bullets that had zipped…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 14, 2005
Ruth Rubin’s songbook “A Treasury of Jewish Folk Songs,” published a half-century ago, is still a treasure trove of songs transliterated from the Hebrew into the Roman alphabet, accompanied by Rubin’s very own translations into English. Multitalented Rubin was a singer, a recording artist, a musicologist and a folklorist. What follows was a very popular…
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Sharon, Symbol of Right, Stays In Office With Help of Leftists
TEL AVIV — Even if Ariel Sharon’s new government doesn’t last long, it already has made Israeli political history. In a bizarre turn of events, Sharon — for decades the most visible and most vilified symbol of the Israeli right — managed this week to survive as prime minister only because the left and several…
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Kabbalistic Kirtan: Just Replace Hindu With Hebrew
f you’ve ever been to a yoga class, you’ve probably performed kirtan, an ancient Hindu call-and-response chant practiced by Hindus and Sikhs. Now imagine that the phrases you were chanting were not Hindu, but Hebrew. Welcome to the newest rung in the Jewish spirituality ladder: kabbalistic kirtan. The genre — which features chanting Jewish names…
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California Case Contains Claim Jews Will Refuse To Impose Death Penalty
OAKLAND, Calif. — The San Francisco Bay Area’s legal community is abuzz over a death-penalty appeal that claims a respected late Jewish judge advised a prosecutor to exclude Jews from a jury because, since the Holocaust, “no Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber.” Former Alameda County prosecutor Jack Quatman, now…
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‘Center’ing Around Jewish Culture, Arts and History
The Curtain raiser for the December 15 Center for Jewish History’s Board of Governors and Board of Directors annual dinner program was emcee Joel Chasnoff, a comedian whose reservoir of Jewish-Christian humor included references to “Jewish guilt” and a chuckler about the “Conservative Jew” who was “the Shabbos goy at an Orthodox building in Riverdale.”…
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Canadian Group Sides With Muslims on Law
TORONTO — In a move that is angering Jewish feminists, B’nai Brith Canada is supporting the demands of conservative Muslims in the province of Ontario who wish to have the right to use private arbitration based on Islamic law for the resolution of their marital, custody and inheritance disputes. A report prepared for the Ontario…
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Vatican Memo Reignites Pius Debate
Jewish organizations are stepping up their pressure on the Vatican after the discovery of a memo suggesting that Pope Pius XII directed French Church officials not to return some Jewish children to their families after World War II. Several American Jewish interfaith leaders said the document could reignite the long-simmering struggle between the Vatican and…
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