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Justice Dept. Takes Heat Over Survivors’ Lawsuit
A bipartisan group of 17 senators, including Hillary Clinton, a New York Democrat, and Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, came together last week to chastise the Department of Justice for its handling of the so-called “Gold Train” case. The Justice Department has fought at every turn against the federal lawsuit brought by Hungarian Holocaust survivors,…
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The Lament of the Damned Detainee
The recent scandals about the maltreatment of prisoners in Iraq have raised the question of whether such wartime captives have any rights. According to the Geneva Convention on the prisoners of war, they do. And the rights they have would have made impossible the hair-raising abuses they suffered at the hands of their American jailers….
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Pro-American French Author Blasts Bush Administration
Coming from another Frenchman, the argument hardly would seem surprising: The war in Iraq was a tragic mistake that derailed the war on terror and damaged America’s image to a point where it now needs a major intellectual, moral and political shake-up to restore its credibility. But when Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s most prominent “anti-anti-American,” laments…
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Agreement To Preserve Jewish Sites in Poland Hailed
WASHINGTON — Underscoring an intensifying effort to confront its troubled past, Poland has signed an agreement with the United States to preserve and restore historic Jewish sites in Poland. The agreement, signed last month in Washington, is the latest in a series of accords America has signed with European governments since 1992 to preserve Jewish…
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There and Back Again
Jews have been pre-eminently an urban people, perhaps since the Diaspora created Alexandria as a major Jewish center, and this has been true of American Jews, too. We celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community by marking its beginning in New Amsterdam — New York City as it was to…
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Another ‘Da Vinci’ Mystery
‘Have you read ‘The Da Vinci Code’?” a friend asked me recently about the runaway best seller. “No,” I said. “Is it any good?” “It’s only the worst novel I’ve ever read,” my friend said. “But you might get a language column out of it. There’s a chapter there about an ancient Hebrew code called…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 4, 2004
Once more, Stanley Siegelman returns to “Der Vinkl” to tickle our funny bones. His present effort is difficult to “trump,” in part because his subject is no less than the Donald himself and his repetitive “husbandry.” (Is the third time the charm?) What follows are Siegelman’s Yiddish and English versions of a new poem, “The…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 28, 2004
On the occasion of his 50th yahrzeit, the poet Y.Y. Sigal is featured in the pages of the Forward devoted to “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry.” A resident of Montreal, Sigal won fame in both Canada and the United States. Leonard Bernstein’s “Arias and Barcaroles” includes one of Sigal’s poems, titled “Oyf Mayn Khasene.” It is…
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Chalabi Allies Claim CIA Plot Of Defamation
Neoconservative allies of Ahmad Chalabi are rallying to the side of the embattled Iraqi politician, insisting that he is the victim of an orchestrated campaign to discredit him. Chalabi and several of his allies outside of government say that he has been undermined by political enemies at the State Department and at the CIA who…
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Bipartisan Deal on Judicial Picks Draws Ire From Both Sides of Aisle
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan deal to break the Senate logjam over judicial nominees is drawing criticism from both liberal and conservative activists. Under the deal, which was negotiated by the White House and by legislative leaders from both parties, Democrats will permit the Senate to vote promptly on 25 of President Bush’s less controversial judicial…
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Ex-Mideast Envoy Zinni Charges Neocons Pushed Iraq War To Benefit Israel
The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America’s most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that the war had been fought for Israel’s benefit, just days after a similar charge was…
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