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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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Wrong Contact Information (Correction)
The August 20 issue of the Forward inadvertently gave the wrong contact information for the Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation. It is: 1170 Green Knolls Drive Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 Office: (847) 913-0455 Fax: (847) 913-8589 Web site: www.fdhope.org E-mail: [email protected]
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Newsdesk September 3, 2004
Israel Blames Syria Israel implicated Syria in Tuesday’s double suicide bombing in Beersheva. Syria has continued to offer logistical and financial backing to terrorist organizations operating out of Damascus, a senior military official told Ha’aretz. At least 16 people died in the bombings. This is the first time that Palestinians have succeeded in carrying out…
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Editor Sues Miami Herald for $3 Million
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The former editor and publisher of Florida’s now-defunct Jewish Star Times is suing Miami Herald Publishing Company for defamation. Dwight Owen Schweitzer filed the $3 million lawsuit in Miami Dade circuit court last week. In a press release, he stated that The Miami Herald — which owned Jewish Star Times — published…
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Dialogue With Moderate Muslims Urged
A new study says the American Jewish community must redefine its definition of militant Islam in order to create crucial new dialogue partnerships with American Muslims — the fastest-growing faith group in the United States. The as-yet-unreleased study, obtained by the Forward, argues that Jewish leaders are doing long-term damage by rejecting potential Muslim partners…
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Convicted of Kidnapping, Rabbi Faces Deportation
MONTREAL — A rabbi who served two years in prison for kidnapping is fighting to retain refugee status in Canada, claiming that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution” if forced to return to Israel. In 1994 an American court in Brooklyn, N.Y., convicted Rabbi Erez Shlomo Elbarnes, 41, for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. The…
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The Benefits of Insurance
Last year, the number of people in the United States without health insurance hit a record-breaking level of 45 million, according to the Census Bureau. Actually, there was a time when no one in the U.S. enjoyed the benefits of “third-party medicine,” the “third party” being an agency that was neither the patient nor the…
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