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Hospitable Origins
L. Yourman writes: “I recently heard that the English word “hospitality” has an etymological connection to the Hebrew-Aramaic word ushpizin. Is this so?” Ushpizin, besides being the name of a new Israeli movie, is the plural of ushpiz, a word meaning “guest” in medieval Aramaic. In Jewish tradition, the ushpizin are the biblical patriarchs who…
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Senate Probe Of Lobbying Puts Heat On DeLay Ally
As congressional Republicans scrambled to shield House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the fallout of a possible indictment, a Senate investigation zeroed in on the lobbying activities of one of his top allies in the Jewish community. Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a DeLay ally and a major philanthropic supporter of Orthodox causes in the Washington,…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 26, 2004
On the 35th yahrzeit of Leib Feinberg, the pages of the Forverts devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry featured the adventuresome life and the passionate penitent poetry of this unusual genius. A graduate of Moscow University (1919) he became an officer of the Red Guard. For most of his early life, he was a dedicated…
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Red State, Blue State, Light Meat, Dark Meat
As my students were packing to go home for Thanksgiving, I asked them what effect “Post-Election Stress Syndrome” was going to have on their holidays. Only two expected any troubles. One explained that his parents were dyed-in-the-wool Republicans and that they would tease him mercilessly for having worked his tail off as a volunteer for…
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Leaders Link Israeli-Palestinian Issue To Iraq, Call for U.S.-led Peace Push
WASHINGTON — More than 70 Jewish communal leaders, including the heads of the two largest synagogue unions, are pledging their support for aggressive American efforts to kick-start the peace process, and urging Israel to honor its commitment to freeze settlement construction. They say such steps could improve the situation in Iraq. The leaders outlined their…
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Israel’s Anti-Corruption Cop Sacked Amid Likud Intrigue
TEL AVIV — In a move fraught with near-Shakespearean intrigue — though cynics said it was closer to “The Sopranos” — the top corruption fighter of the Israeli police force was sacked by his civilian boss Sunday, hours before a political gathering of the top cop’s most vocal detractors. The firing of Moshe Mizrahi, chief…
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‘Clash of Civilizations’ Hits Europe
AMSTERDAM — After serving for three decades as the unofficial capital of Europe’s anything-goes, post-modern culture of tolerance, the Netherlands has been transformed with astonishing rapidity in the past three weeks into ground zero of whatever it is that is coming next. Some call it the painful, halting birth of a new era of realism….
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Federations Draft ‘Stop Doing’ List
CLEVELAND — There was a “Prime Minister’s Dinner” Sunday night, but no prime minister. There was a “Breakfast With the Legend” scheduled for Monday, but the legend — Israel’s Shimon Peres — didn’t show up. It was a four-day gathering of the American Jewish community’s top organizers and fund raisers, but the iconic moment might…
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Forward 50 (Correction)
The Forward 50 entry in the November 12 issue on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mentioned that she contributed to a recently published collection of essays, but misidentified the book. The correct title is “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” (Jewish Lights).
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Israel, U.S. Move To Facilitate Palestinian Elections
WASHINGTON — Under pressure from the Bush administration to help facilitate the rise of moderate Palestinian leaders, Israel is taking several key steps to pave the way for January elections in Gaza and the West Bank. At a meeting Monday in Washington, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell…
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Lieberman Open to Cabinet Position
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut — the leader of the hawkish “Scoop Jackson” wing of the Democratic Party — is responding positively to the suggestion that President Bush offer him a post in his Cabinet. On Sunday, asked by interviewer Chris Wallace on Fox News whether he would accept such a position, Lieberman replied, “I’d…
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