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Natan Yonathan, Israel’s Lyrical Poet of Nature
Poet Natan Yonatan (1923-2004) was a symbol of an Israel that no longer exists. The prize-winning people’s poet from a strong socialist background published 20 volumes of poetry translated into several languages, yet he was never fully accepted by the intellectual establishment. Still, it is not for his lyrical poems nor his verses about nature…
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Minister Urging Americans To Protest Gaza Pullout Plan
WASHINGTON — Israel’s housing minister, Effi Eitam, called on American Jews this week to “speak out, both as Americans and as supporters of Israel” against his own prime minister’s plan for disengagement in Gaza. “American Jewry should approach this issue both as citizens of a superpower that is fighting a global war against terrorism… and…
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Sharsheret Toy Chest Keeps Kids Busy When Sick Moms Need a Break
When diagnosed with breast cancer more than two years ago, Naomi Spira was inundated with pot roast dinners from kindly neighbors. She was somewhat surprised, though, when a distant relative sent a large bag of toys with a note instructing her to dole them out to her children whenever she needed a break. Spira decided…
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Ex-Soviet Republic Counts Many Critics, Few Friends
The ex-Soviet republic of Uzbekistan is the largest and wealthiest of the core states of Central Asia, and it is home to 23 million citizens, 88% of whom are Muslim. Few Americans can find it — or its capital, Tashkent — on a map, a point that was highlighted in a popular American TV sitcom,…
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Age 18 in the Western Galilee: Youths Await IDF Enlistment
Dagan Jacobi looks like he’ll always be more comfortable holding a surfboard than an M-16. When he’s not studying for his high school finals, the 18-year-old with a sun tattoo etched onto his right shoulder blade is riding the waves of the Mediterranean Sea, which laps the edge of his farming village, Shavei Zion, in…
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Refugees Facing End of Federal Aid As Deadline for Citizenship Looms
CHICAGO — As her husband Iosif explains their dire situation in broken English, 70-year-old Polina Kats sits on the couch in her small Chicago apartment, rubbing her hands while staring out the window with her brows furrowed anxiously. Since they arrived from Latvia as Jewish refugees almost seven years ago, the Katses have known that…
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On Guard Duty in Jerusalem, Volunteers Find Even the Slightest Doubt Demands Immediate Action Suspicious Minds
At 8:45 p.m. on a Thursday night, wearing a reflective yellow Israel National Police vest, I am walking with my partner, 18-year-old Yonatan, who wears a small knitted yarmulke, through the Paula Ben-Gurion elementary school in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. I am armed with a yellow plastic flashlight; Yonatan, a rifle. We turn the…
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Author Challenges Rambam’s Principles (Correction)
Due to an editing error, the location of Lander College for Men at Touro College was incorrect in the March 12 story “Author Challenges Rambam’s Principles.” It is in Queens, N.Y.
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The Word Inconsiderate Comes to Mind
Many of my friends are nonworking mothers. Is it petty of me to be irritated when they make lunch dates and ask either where I’m likely to be that day (I’m in my office, which has a fixed address) or if I can meet them in their part of town? I understand that they have…
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Groups Say Ban on Gay Vows Breaches Religious Freedom
In an unusual move, a local prosecutor’s effort to stop ministers from performing same-sex marriages is drawing fire from Jewish civil rights agencies not only on grounds of privacy or gay rights, but also of religious freedom. Officials with the American Jewish Congress and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism charge that the district…
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The Mirrors of the Women
And they made the laver of copper out of the mirrors of the women who trooped to the opening of the Tent of Meeting. — Exodus 38:8 The women weren’t eager to give up their mirrors, but the copper was essential. The Israelites had the gold and silver they’d taken from the Egyptians as God…
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