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Thief Stole More Than Hearts on JDate
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — An Orlando man who used the Jewish Internet dating service JDate to lure women into dating him was arrested in Broward County last week with bail set at $21,000. Police charged Ivan Urquiza, 34, with grand theft, attempting to use another person’s identity without consent, and intimidating or threatening a witness or…
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Zell Denies Salon Quotes on Chalabi
Jerusalem-based lawyer Marc Zell denied a report in the online magazine Salon.com that he had criticized Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi. In a letter to Salon dated May 6, Zell disavowed all the quotes contained in an article written by John Dizard, a Financial Times columnist. The quotes were mentioned in a story that appeared in…
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It’s All in the Mix
‘Every day brings something new,” says DJ Handler, the impresario behind Modular Moods, an independent record label whose first releases hit the stores this past April. The 24-year-old Handler — ne Erez Shudnow — lives this credo. In addition to running his own record label, he is a DJ who spins at art installations and…
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Chalabi Lashes Back at Critics As Furor Over Iran Ties Grows
Faced with a storm of attacks and uncertainty over its future role in Iraq, the Iraqi National Congress and its controversial leader Ahmed Chalabi are lashing back at their critics in America. Chalabi’s exile group-turned-political party issued a statement Monday denouncing what it described as “a CIA-orchestrated smear campaign,” after Newsweek published allegations that the…
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40 Years Later: The Struggle for Soviet Jewry
The following was excerpted from an article in the spring issue of Azure Magazine. Jacob Birnbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926. His grandfather, Nathan Birnbaum, coined the term “Zionism” and served as secretary general of the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. Dissatisfied with his western European acculturated identity, Nathan Birnbaum was…
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Antisemitism Fight Provides Way For Mending Transatlantic Split
BERLIN — Fresh from a major international conference here last week, diplomats and communal leaders say that the fight against antisemitism is emerging as a vehicle for mending the American-European split over Iraq, as well as easing tensions between Jewish groups and human rights organizations. Representatives of the 55-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in…
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CALENDAR EVENTS
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA “Brooklyn: A Place of the Heart”: Using a variety of media, including slide shows, panel discussions, featured speakers and culinary traditions, the program gives participants an opportunity to immerse themselves in Brooklyn culture. Organized by the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Museum in co-sponsorship with the D.C. Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Historical…
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U.S. Official Does ‘God’s Work’: Eradicating Slavery
WASHINGTON — Critics think John Miller is a zealot. Supporters view the State Department official as a hero. Both sides agree that he is leading a crusade to abolish slavery worldwide. Backed by an unlikely coalition of conservative Evangelical Christian and liberal human rights advocates, Miller, who is Jewish, unabashedly has infused religious fervor into…
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From Ethnic Ripples, a Tidal Wave
The first boatload of Jews may have landed on these shores in 1654, but it was not until almost 300 years later that Jews made a decisive impact on American literature. The Sephardic Jews who came first and the German Jews who followed in the 1840s became merchants and artisans — and, eventually, great patrons…
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In a Time of Dissent, Jewish Conservatives Close Ranks (Correction)
In the April 30 article “In a Time of Dissent, Jewish Conservatives Close Ranks,” Richard Clarke’s recently published book was misidentified. The correct title is “Against All Enemies.”
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HEALTH DESK
Kidney Cancer: The National Cancer Institute is on the lookout for Ashkenazi Jews who have a history of kidney cancer. Although Jews do not have the highest rate of kidney cancer in the United States, they have traditionally provided a useful genetic laboratory for geneticists because of the strong rates at which Jews historically have…
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