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Treason of the Intellectuals
Gideon Samet is an Israeli journalist and ex-editor-in-chief of the Hebrew newspaper Ha’aretz. On August 23, he published an op-ed in The New York Times that was captioned “Is Sharon losing his grip?” and that contained the following sentence — which, I suspect, proved puzzling to many readers: “Since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin almost…
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Serving Up Justice
With Presbyterian and Jewish communal leaders preparing for a high-level meeting to address the church’s recent vote to divest from Israel, an unlikely candidate is offering his services as a mediator: Andrew Sparks, a messianic minister accused by critics of using deceptive tactics to attract Jews to his congregation. The religious leader of Congregation Avodat…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
In a bid to draft the age-old folkways of Judaism into the service of modern politics, the Bush-Cheney campaign is asking Orthodox Jews to use their network of communal and familial ties to get out the vote for President Bush. Tevi Troy, an Orthodox Jew who served as Bush’s White House liaison to the Jewish…
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UJC Faces Questions As Rieger Takes Helm
When Howard Rieger becomes president of United Jewish Communities on September 1, he will take the reins of an organization confronting defining questions about its role as the coordinating body for 155 North American Jewish federations. After three years in which giving to the federation’s annual campaign has declined, UJC has struggled with its budgetary…
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Windsurfer From Israel Strikes Gold
Gal Friedman became the first Israeli ever to win an Olympic gold medal, when he won the windsurfing event in Athens on Wednesday. Friedman, who took home the bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996, is also the first Israeli to win two Olympic medals. After Friedman crossed the finish line Wednesday, he took a victory…
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Newsdesk August 27, 2004
Moskowitz Gets License The California Gambling Control Commission last week granted controversial philanthropist Irving Moskowitz a permanent license for his casino in the city of Hawaiian Gardens. Both Moskowitz’s casino and bingo hall in the small, impoverished town near Los Angeles have long been the subject of intense criticism from a coalition of Jewish peace…
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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
The ninth commandment of the Ten Commandments declares, in no uncertain terms: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbors.” We mention this sacred script from the Bible at this time because of its pertinent relevance to one of the nastiest confrontations in the many mean-minded moments in the long history of American political…
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Labor Leader To Press Welfare Agenda
Israel’s newest prime ministerial contender was in New York last week trying to woo American Jewish leaders by telling them he does not want his country to be like theirs. Moreover, he said, he’s not alone in his view. Amir Peretz, chairman of Israel’s powerful Histadrut labor federation, said in an interview last week that…
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French Jews Putting Down Roots in Eilat
EILAT, Israel — Eloise Benchetrit and her husband just signed on the purchase of four apartments in the upscale Shachamon neighborhood of Eilat, Israel’s desert resort town on the Red Sea. “It is paradise here with the sea and the sun,” the Parisian computer importer said, echoing a phrase right out of a tourist guidebook….
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Virgin Legend?
A number of readers have written in about my August 13 column, “Questioning Virginity.” All have taken issue with my saying that the Greek word parthenos, in the Septuagint’s translation of the Hebrew almah in Isaiah 7:14, means “virgin.” Thus, for example, Peter Siegel comments: “You have fallen into the linguistic equivalent of the urban…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL August 27, 2004
His patients know him as Dr. Barnett Zumoff, head of the department of endocrinology and metabolism at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. Members of The Forward Association and the Arbeter Ring know him as a macher — an important person — in these and other institutions and movements in American Jewish life. Readers…
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