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In Hot Pursuit of the Sexy Swingers
Call them the “Sexy 16.” Every four years, some of the most prominent guys in America set out in hot pursuit of these elusive creatures. This year, they are being chased heatedly by two mucho macho hombres by the name of George Bush and John Kerry. Apparently, what makes these 16 so desirable is their…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Corsi Conciliation: Jerome Corsi, the co-author of the anti-John Kerry book “Unfit for Command” — who recently apologized publicly for some coarse comments about Muslims, Catholics and Jews that he posted on a right-wing Web site, freerepublic.com — called the Forward on Tuesday to attest to his pro-Jewish bona fides. “I have created two mutual…
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Boundaries Blur for Communal Leaders, Israeli Officials
WASHINGTON — A handful of Jewish communal officials were summoned about one year ago to the Israeli Embassy in Washington for a briefing on Iran. The meeting featured a computerized presentation from Israeli diplomats pointing to Iran as the party responsible for the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, which killed 86…
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JPosters Stung by Hollinger Woes
When a report about the “corporate kleptocracy” at the publishing company Hollinger International was released last week, it carried a special sting for employees at the Hollinger-owned Jerusalem Post, who have endured a series of extreme budgetary cutbacks during the past decade. The report, written by a special committee of Hollinger’s board, alleges that Hollinger…
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At 70, Jewish Autonomous Region Gets a Face-lift
LETTER FROM BIROBIDZHAN Wherever you went last month in Birobidzhan — crossing the road, pausing on the sidewalk, entering a store or public building — you couldn’t escape the city’s frantic makeover. The capital of Russia’s so-called Jewish Autonomous Region, one of the odder footnotes of 20th-century Jewish history, underwent a face-lift. Work crews were…
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Campaign Questions Deserve More Than Just Bumper-sticker Answers
At the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, so the legend goes, a voter told an inquiring reporter that she had decided to vote against Barry Goldwater because “he wants to sell my TV.” After the mystified reporter probed a bit, he told the voter that Goldwater was in fact talking about selling the TVA…
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Kaput Ain’t Ours
‘Dear Philologos: Can this be? It’s not some etymological sleight of hand from an antisemitic cabal? Say it isn’t so, please!” These heartfelt words come from Ruth Seldin of White Plains, N.Y., who is devastated to learn that the word “kaput” does not have a Jewish origin. Browsing in the Merriam-Webster “Word a Day” Web…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON — With America’s pro-Israel lobby scrambling to combat media leaks from unnamed government officials, the White House is drawing criticism from congressmen and Jewish communal officials over the FBI investigation into allegations that officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee illegally transferred secret information to Israel. Lawmakers and Jewish organizational leaders are questioning…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL September 10, 2004
This column is the third in a series by Dr. Barnett Zumoff. The selections were chosen by Zumoff in response to our asking him to let us know which of his countless translations of Yiddish poetry into English is his very personal favorite. He told us that there was no single one, but that he…
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Israel Plays the Understudy In Russian ‘Theater of Terror’
JERUSALEM — “Theater of terror.” That’s what Israeli defense officials are calling last week’s horrifying terrorist attack and mass hostage-killing in the south Russian town of Beslan. “This marks the return of an old terrorism with new tactics,” one senior Israeli security official said. “We’ve seen mass hostage-takings before, but we’ve never encountered such a…
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Brothers Bond in Suburban Angst
Josh and Zach Braff are all grown up and living on the opposite side of the country from their childhood home in South Orange, N.J. But together the brothers have opened a vast panorama onto the experience of being young in the spiritual wilds of northern New Jersey. Zach Braff’s recently released first movie, “Garden…
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