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N.J. Sex Scandal Spills Into Orthodox World As Touro Link Is Eyed
The lawyers representing Golan Cipel, the Israeli at the heart of the political tumult in the Garden State, are attempting to debunk claims that their client was a partner or pawn in an elaborate scheme to bring down New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. In an exclusive interview with the Forward, one of Cipel’s two attorneys,…
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Phish Phans Give Phinal Phreylach Pharewell to Band
COVENTRY, Vt. — This weekend, on the 35th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, the band Phish, arguably the kingpin of alternative rock bands of the last three decades, played its last gig. A crowd of close to 70,000 trudged through wind, rain, mud and muck — remnants of Florida’s Hurricane Charley — for a two-day…
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July 30 “Newsdesk” brief
A “Newsdesk” brief in the July 30 issue, supplied by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, contained incorrect information on the American Civil Liberties Union’s protest of the Ford Foundation’s new anti-terrorism rules. The JTA news brief said that the ACLU, despite its protests, said it would continue to accept money from the Ford Foundation and abide…
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Report: Egypt, Militants Reach Deal
JERUSALEM — Egypt has reached agreements with Hamas and Islamic Jihad on their activities in Gaza after Israel’s disengagement, according to a report this week in the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Senior members of Islamic Jihad met last weekend with Egyptian diplomats at Cairo’s representation in Gaza to move ahead with the Egyptian post-disengagement…
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Newsdesk August 20, 2004
Israeli Man Killed in D.C. Twenty-five-year-old Israeli Ehud Reich was murdered in Washington on August 15, apparently by a criminal gang. Reich, who had been living in the city for eight months and working as a locksmith, responded to a call in the southeast part of town from a burglary victim whose car keys had…
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Poetic License: On a Quest for Cipel’s Art
Almost from the first moments that aides to New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey began identifying his paramour as Golan Cipel, the media took to describing him as a poet, with some reports even tagging on the credential “published.” This week, one of Cipel’s attorneys derided this description, saying the Israeli had written some poems with…
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Iranian Judo Jab No Surprise for Rabbi
The refusal of an Iranian Olympic superstar to compete against an Israeli opponent in a judo match shocked and outraged sports observers and Jewish communal leaders this week. But a Pittsburgh rabbi, Alvin Berkun, told the Forward he knew last week that such a controversy was coming. The rabbi said that he had been tipped…
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Tehran Threatens Israel
Iran threatened to destroy the Dimona nuclear reactor if Israel attacks the Islamic republic. The warning comes amid increasing speculation that Israel might attack Iranian nuclear facilities, and shortly after Iran said it successfully tested an upgraded version of its Shihab-3 missile, which is capable of hitting Israel.
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The President Who Cried Wolf
The recent revelation that the terrorists who were responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks are still at work and have made their plans to blow up financial institutions across our country has received a strange response. Ordinarily, such a warning, allegedly backed up by documentary evidence, should be a source of widespread concern on…
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Fla. Temple Seeks Relief After Deadly Hurricane
Jews throughout Florida are pulling together to help those in need after the devastation of last week’s Hurricane Charley. “Those with power are hosting those that have severe damages to their homes, to help people get through if they don’t have the means to cook food, do laundry, or things we take for granted,” said…
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True to Character, Olympic Mettle Eludes Israelis
TEL AVIV — Once every four years, Israelis gather around their televisions to watch their representatives in the summer Olympic games, hoping for victory but expecting defeat. It’s partly a matter of experience — it took Israel 44 years to win its first Olympic medal, and it has yet to take a gold — but…
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