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DER YIDDISH-VINKL December 3, 2004
Stanley Siegelman, as steady readers of Der Vinkl must know, is blessed with not only the witty word, but also a sharp eye for unusual news. His current subject deals with a school for gays in the New York City public school system. Here is his Yiddish version on the subject, followed by his English…
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Two Viktors and Ukraine’s Soil
Watching the whirlwind that threatened to engulf Ukraine in the wake of last week’s tainted presidential runoff, few Americans would deny feeling some measure of cosmic dread. Right there, before our eyes, in that nation of 48 million along the Black Sea, the fate of the world’s march toward democracy might be unfolding. No one…
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Bush Gingerly Re-enters Mideast Fray With Bid To Enlist Groups’ Support
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is turning to Jewish organizations to rally support for American efforts to kick-start the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In a top-level White House meeting Monday with Jewish communal leaders, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice announced the administration’s intention to step up efforts to advance the peace process, and said that…
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Controversial Imams Enter Dialogue With Rabbis
Some of the most influential and controversial Islamic clerics in the Middle East are participating in a plan to launch what organizers describe as the first joint-training institute to produce future moderate sheiks, rabbis, priests and ministers. The unprecedented proposal to create a summer religious institute — where young seminarians from the three faiths would…
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Kosher Corporation Releases a Cartoon ‘Passion’
Until this week, families made queasy by the violence in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” could take in Jesus’ flagellation and death in a kid-friendly cartoon version, “The Animated Passion Trilogy.” The cartoon is an odd spinoff from Gibson’s film, which offended many in the Jewish community. But even stranger is that the…
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U.N. Committee Passes Resolution (Correction)
In the November 26 article “U.N. Committee Passes Resolution,” Amy Goodstein’s position was misstated. She is currently director of United Nations affairs for B’nai Brith International. The November 12 editorial “How the Jews Vote” incorrectly identified the Federalist candidate for U.S. president in 1800. The candidate was John Adams. The Forward 50 entry on Under…
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Pro-Hezbollah TV Station Facing Ban
In an embarrassing retreat, the French broadcasting authority asked the country’s top administrative court to ban broadcasting from a pro-Hezbollah TV station less than two weeks after the authority granted the station a license. The High Audiovisual Council, known by its French acronym, CSA, said in a statement that it has requested the court to…
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Media Watchdog Threatens To Sue Professor
The feud between a pro-Israel media watchdog and a University of Michigan professor is fueling claims of Jewish attempts to silence criticism of Jerusalem and academic misdeeds on the part of pro-Palestinian professors. The president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, Yigal Carmon, has threatened to file suit against Juan Cole, a professor of…
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Controversy Over Israel Debate Rocks Ivy League School
A struggle between pro-Israel and anti-Israel forces at Columbia University escalated this week as an ad hoc campus group held an emergency meeting to plot a strategy to defend several Middle East studies professors accused of intimidating Jewish students. The gathering attracted about 60 students, professors and community members Monday night at Columbia’s Intercultural Resource…
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Emigré Newspaper Finds Buyer
Eight months after the trans-Atlantic newspaper Aufbau put out what was thought to be its last issue, the German Jewish publication is coming back to life, now on the other side of the Atlantic. Aufbau was purchased by the Juedische Medien AG, the company that owns Switzerland’s independent Jewish newspaper, Tachles. The editors at the…
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U.N. Committee Passes Resolution
In what Israel and its supporters called a breakthrough, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday calling for the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, including antisemitism. The resolution, which is expected to be voted on by the whole General Assembly soon, recognized “with deep concern…
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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