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Some Worry About Kerry Plan’s Price
John Kerry’s plans for securing more European and international support in Iraq are prompting worries among Jewish communal leaders — including some Democrats — that such outreach will carry a price tag: increased American pressure on Israel. During a speech Monday, Kerry repeated his belief that Europe needs to be more involved in Iraq. Some…
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Slugger Set To Skip Game on Yom Kippur
On Sunday, baseball star Shawn Green made the highlight reels with his game-winning home run in the ninth inning. But this weekend the Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman is likely to generate even more headlines by staying off the field. Green, admired by fans across the country who see him as the nicest Jewish boy…
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‘Material Girl’ Gets Spiritual on Trip to Israel
TEL AVIV — Pop diva Madonna was among the praying, swaying and singing masses of Kabbalah enthusiasts who made the pilgrimage to Israel for the High Holy Days, seeking spiritual transformation through a brand of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah. The “Material Girl” was celebrated by an Israeli public hungry for a touch of celebrity…
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Presbyterians, Jewish Leaders Discuss Israel
In the face of mounting criticism of the Presbyterian Church (USA) controversial vote to withdraw selected investments from Israel, pro-Israel Presbyterian leaders met with Jewish officials to discuss how to neutralize the church action before the divestment process begins in March 2005. About 25 clergy and laypeople met at Auburn Theological Seminary in Manhattan, N.Y.,…
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Financial Disputes Stir Lithuanian Feud
The lone synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, sat locked this Rosh Hashanah as a result of a heightening local dispute that is threatening to drag two global Jewish organizations into a confrontation. Members of Lithuania’s Chabad-Lubavitch community have come to blows with the government-recognized Jewish Community of Lithuania, which is partially funded by the American Jewish…
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Israel Tries To Block U.N. Move on Fence
UNITED NATIONS — Israel is pressing diplomats from the European Union and Russia to help block a Palestinian-backed move in the Security Council to demand that Israel comply with the recent world court ruling against Israel’s West Bank security fence. The Netherlands-based world court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, issued a nonbinding…
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Sharon: Harsh Talk on Rabin ‘Crossed Limit’
The following is an extract from an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, published in the holiday edition of Yediot Aharonot on September 15. Correspondents Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer conducted the interview at the prime minister’s residence Monday evening, September 13. J.J. Goldberg translated the interview from Hebrew. The next series of questions might…
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Cracking the Whip
‘Who by water and who by fire,” says a line in the Yom Kippur prayer U’Netaneh Tokef, which speaks of the different kinds of death in store for those not inscribed in this year’s Book of Life — and if some of the extremist enemies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Gaza disengagement plan…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL September 24, 2004
The pages of the August 6 edition of the Forverts devoted to Pearls of Jewish Poetry featured Alef Katz on the occasion of his 35th yahrzeit. When he came to the United States in 1913, Katz devoted himself to writing poetry in Hebrew. Subsequently, he wrote poems in Yiddish and English. He believed that there…
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WJC Ousts Vocal Critic and Senior Aide in Shake-up
In a major shake-up that follows weeks of internal turmoil, World Jewish Congress president Edgar Bronfman Sr. has pushed out two top officials and canceled his plans to retire next year. During a leadership meeting Monday at his Manhattan, N.Y., office, Bronfman announced that he was removing WJC senior vice president Isi Leibler from the…
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Putin’s Terror Crackdown Puts Activists in a Quandary
For Jewish communal leaders who came of age during the fight for the freedom of Soviet Jewry but who have now shifted their focus to the fight against Islamic terrorism, events in Russia last week presented a special dilemma. After the hostage siege in the Russian town of Beslan, the Jewish community in the United…
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