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No Jail Time for German Tourist Who Punched Celebrity Masseuse
A German tourist in New York City pleaded guilty last week to assaulting a non-Jewish woman wearing a Star of David, whom he called a “Jewish pig.” Dorothy “Dr. Dot” Stein — a celebrity masseuse who has worked the shoulders and backs of Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Sheryl Crow, among others — has worn…
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Avada Plays It Cool
In the city of glitz and glamour, Yiddish is suddenly becoming all the rage. Trendsetters in Hollywood — and Los Angeles more generally — are notorious for their irreverent attitude toward tradition, but a new project is trying to change that. It aims to appeal to the young, hip crowd and convince it that the…
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Newsdesk February 20, 2004
Romanian Pol Apologizes A Romanian presidential candidate with a history of antisemitic and Holocaust-denial statements has offered an apology for his past, pledging to organize a pilgrimage to Auschwitz as part of his repentance. “I am asking for forgiveness from all Jews,” wrote Corneliu Vadim Tudor, head of the Greater Romania Party, in an open…
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Fiction’s Feminine Side Gets Equal Time
Alyssa Quint regularly contributes to the Forward. Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories By Sandra Bark Warner Books, 352 pages, $14.95. * * *| According to Fanya Glants’s husband, the celebrated American-Yiddish poet A. Leyeles, she was a genuine artist whose bond with literature was both intimate and…
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Same-Sex Weddings Elicit Little Community Reaction in Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — After Andy Birnbaum came out in 1995, his mother switched to a Reform congregation to find a spiritual home more accepting of her son’s homosexual orientation, while his father remained in their old Conservative congregation, determined to effect change from within. His father’s only request at the time was that Andy find…
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Yugntruf Preserves More Than Words
For one devoted group, this so-called “dying language” is forever young. These Yiddish speakers are not ultra-Orthodox Jews sequestered in Williamsburg or Eastern European immigrants speaking the tongue of their yidishe mames. They are Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s building a bona fide community of Yiddish speakers. Yugntruf, “Call to Youth,” is celebrating…
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Order Emerges From the Chaos of the Primaries
For a while there it looked as if the Democratic Party was committing suicide on television. A dozen or so aspirants repeatedly made public appearances during which they assailed one another with words that could come back to haunt their party’s ultimate candidate for president. The format in which they appeared encouraged such a bloody…
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‘Sudden Rain’ Makes a Splash
Marc Caplan teaches comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. Plutsemdiker Regn (Sudden Rain) By Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Israel Book Publishing House, 128 pages, $15. * * *| The chasidic master Reb Borekh of Mezbizh once offered the parable of two strangers who, because neither of them knew the people around them, came to love one another….
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Edwards Opportunity?: The surprising late surge of North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday makes the March 2 New York primary more interesting, but probably does not give Edwards the momentum he needs to take the Empire State, some local analysts said. Surveying the local landscape for where Edwards could harvest votes…
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A Time for Games, a Time for Politics
During her tenure as the director of the Yiddish language summer program at Columbia University, Adrienne Cooper was surprised to discover her students’ motivations for attending. “Some people were looking for a way of connecting themselves to Jewish history through the language,” she said. “They wanted to connect themselves to Eastern European working-class activism. They…
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Rabbis Denounce Sharon’s Plan for Disengagement
Former Israeli chief rabbi Avraham Shapira warned Tuesday night that any politicians who even considered “evacuating a flourishing part of the land and expelling Jews from their homes [would] lose their seat and power.” Shapira made his statement as several hundred rabbis convened in Jerusalem to denounce Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s proposal to remove settlements…
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