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The International Star
Even before Manhattan’s West Side piers opened to the public for the 2004 Armory show, a piece by Israeli-born video artist Michal Rovner had already sold for $90,000: a long white steel laboratory table appointed with Petrie dishes, within which quivering DNA-like forms suggest images seen under a microscope. In fact, the images are video…
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It Is Not Good for Man To Be Alone
Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition By Steven Greenberg University of Wisconsin Press, 264 pages, $35. * * *| Queer Theory and the Jewish Question Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz and Ann Pellegrini Columbia University Press, 464 pages, $24.50 * * *| Imagine learning that, because of how you were…
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Its Leaders Liquidated, Hamas Looks to Tehran For Guidance on Terror
TEL AVIV — Even though he had been targeted for death since last fall, Israeli defense officials say the assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantisi became an urgent priority only in the last month, after he became the head of Hamas and began upgrading Iranian involvement in the organization. Rantisi, 54, was killed April 17 by…
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U.S. Leads the Way at Berlin Conference
The Bush administration has launched a major diplomatic effort to ensure a positive outcome to a major conference on antisemitism being held next week in Berlin. The administration drew cheers from Jewish groups after Secretary of State Colin Powell decided to join the American delegation to the two-day gathering of the Organization for the Security…
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Superman in the Mirror and Other Forms of Hero Worship
Danny Fingeroth, a longtime writer for Marvel Comics, was at a comic book convention in San Diego last year when he touched a nerve in his audience. Fingeroth was reading a chapter from his new book, “Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society” (Continuum), then a work in…
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Israeli Requests for Shoah Funds Denied
A court-appointed special master overseeing distribution of money from Holocaust-era Swiss bank accounts has turned down two Israeli proposals for a dramatically increased share of unclaimed funds. In a report released April 16, the special master, Judah Gribetz, rejected Israeli requests that the Brooklyn federal court allocate almost half of any remaining funds from the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 23, 2004
On his 35th yahrzeit, the Forverts devoted its Pearls of Yiddish Poetry section to Mark Shveyd — poet, actor, playwright and translator. One of the poems included is an imaginary song sung by his mother as he is planning to leave his home and his country of birth. The transliteration is by Goldie Gold. The…
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Fund Helps Persecuted Scholars Reach Safe Havens
In a seemingly different life, Ahmed Subhy Mansour was a scholar at Cairo’s venerated Al-Azhar University. He studied the history of dictatorship in Islam and the place of death and paradise in the Koran. But some aspect of his research did not go over well with the authorities, and in 1987 he was fired from…
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Handing Over the Reins
On April 12, in one of his rare press conferences, President Bush laid out a road map on America’s approach to Iraq’s future. Just two days later, he agreed to change — really reverse — the route. What happened? Much of Bush’s opening statement at the press conference consisted of what was once famously labeled…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Schumer Speaks: The appearance of New York Senator Charles Schumer at a fundraiser for the All Stars Project, a theater group founded by fringe politician Lenora Fulani, is being criticized by some New Yorkers. “What needs to be asked is, ‘Why, Mr. Schumer, are you addressing a group that only recently staged a show about…
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Sephardic and Mizrahi Women Lift Up Their Veils
The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage Edited by Loolwa Khazzoom Seal Press, 256 pages, $16.95. * * *| ‘Today,” writes Loolwa Khazzoom in the introduction to her new book of essays by Sephardic and Mizrahi women, “North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women continue to…
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