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SARA BLOOMFIELD As the director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Sara Bloomfield has been responsible for guiding one of the most important institutions conveying Jewish history and values to the rest of the world. The work took on particular political importance this year as the museum, a federally funded institution, led the American…
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Arafat’s Legacy: Hollow Leadership, Ongoing Conflict
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of ecstatic Palestinians looked to the Jenin sky, some with tears of joy, to follow the two Russian-made helicopters, donated by Egypt to Yasser Arafat, as they whirled the dust of the West Bank town and landed in an empty lot. It was November 2, 1995, exactly nine years before…
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Aaron Lansky After spending a quarter-century rescuing Yiddish books from Dumpsters, clueless grandchildren and collapsing buildings, Aaron Lansky produced a book of his own this fall, titled “Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Books.” In it Lansky, 49, recounts the dramatic rise of his National Yiddish Book Center from…
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Israeli Envoy: Vatican Agreement Near
Israel and the Vatican are nearing a comprehensive agreement on a range of issues after a decade of arduous negotiations, according to Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See. Oded Ben Hur told reporters on Monday that he was expecting both sides to conclude their talks toward the end of the year or in the first…
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LYNN SCHUSTERMAN AND MICHAEL STEINHARDT These two philanthropic giants, Jewish charity’s premier practitioners of so-called venture philanthropy, have joined forces in a slew of initiatives in Jewish education and synagogue renewal in recent years. Yet they’re different enough to merit their own entries. Steinhardt, 64, who made his fortune managing his own hedge fund, is…
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French Jews Wary of Motives Behind Treatment of Arafat
PARIS — Americans were busy electing the leader of the free world this week, but French Jews had a different foreign dignitary on their minds: Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian leader arrived in France last week, after President Jacques Chirac eagerly accepted Arafat’s request for access to medical treatment. Chirac proudly framed the decision as an…
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Newsdesk November 5, 2004
Bank Boycott Called Israeli Holocaust survivors called Tuesday for a consumer boycott of banks that have not published reports of dormant accounts belonging to Holocaust victims. The special Knesset committee established to look into this matter has reported that about 5,000 such accounts, with about $225 million in assets, exist. Publication of the report, however,…
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Arafat Wants a ‘New’ President Bush
Yasser Arafat hopes that President Bush will change his Middle East policies, a Palestinian official said. “I think that, like all Palestinians, he is waiting to see what President Bush is going to do to revert to a policy of peace rather than a policy of war,” Palestinian official Leila Shahid said Wednesday in France,…
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Kerry’s Stepson: ‘Misquoted on Israel’
John Kerry’s stepson said he was misquoted in a story that said he regarded Israel as the “51st state” of America. Chris Heinz was quoted in Philadelphia Magazine as saying, “One of the things I’ve noticed is the Israel lobby, the treatment of Israel as the 51st state, sort of a swing state.” The quote…
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Groups Worried by GOP’s Domestic Agenda
WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s Republican blitz triggered a wave of deep disappointment among Jewish organizational officials, who are openly worrying about the fate of their liberal domestic agenda now that the GOP has strengthened its control over the White House and Congress. In particular, several Jewish communal leaders bemoaned the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom…
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Palestinian Leader’s Illness Changes Political Equations in Israel
TEL AVIV — After days of furious maneuvering to prepare for the post-Yasser Arafat era, Israelis and Palestinians were waking up this week to the sobering realization that reports of the Palestinian leader’s demise might have been premature. “Arafat’s prospects for recovery range between full recuperation and death,” Israel’s military intelligence chief, Major General Aharon…
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