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‘Passion’ Debate Risks Alienating Christian Allies
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Standing before a room full of Anti-Defamation League leaders at the Italian Renaissance-style Majestic Breakers hotel here, Rabbi Robert Levine appeared to be preaching to the converted as he tore into Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” But then Levine, the religious leader of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Manhattan and…
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Tree of Life Sprouts New Mag
‘The rules of the game have changed: prayers have given place to novs,” Ilan Stavans says in an interview that appears in the first issue of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. “It is the same art of storytelling that is at the fore.” Launching February 10, Tiferet is a rare synthesis of the Jewishly…
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Bringing Spanish Literature to Life (Correction)
The January 23 article “Bringing Spanish Literature to Life — in English” referred to translator Edith Grossman incorrectly. She is divorced. The January 30 article “Cost of Medicine Imperiling Lives of Sick Survivors” cited a statistic incorrectly. If California’s proposed budget passes, the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles will lose 10% of its $4.5…
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Baseball’s Best Field Praise at Hank Greenberg Awards
‘Richie Scheinblum! You once got three hits off me!” the winningest (though oft-traded) Jewish pitcher in baseball history said by way of greeting to the only Jewish switch-hitter ever to hit .300 in a single season. The two former players — surrounded by 300-plus fans and more than a dozen former major leaguers and current…
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Israel Programs Rebound
Rebecca Blank, a sophomore at Blind Brook Public High School in Westchester County, N.Y., has wanted to study abroad for several years. Highly active in her temple youth group and a longtime attendee of the Reform movement’s summer camps, her first choice was Israel. So last week, Blank boarded an El Al plane at Kennedy…
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Help! Toast Needs Meat, Wit
My son is getting married, and I will be called upon to deliver a toast at the wedding. I want to give my son, his bride and our guests some words to remember. Can you offer any hints or direction about how to compose my remarks in a clever fashion with a Jewish theme? —…
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A Wound Ripped Raw
Who is Samir Kuntar, and why should we care? Kuntar is the Lebanese prisoner in an Israeli jail of whom Hezbollah’s Sheik Hassan Nasrallah spoke in his triumphant speech on the occasion of the puzzling prisoner exchange between his group and Israel last week. Nasrallah promised that the next prisoner whose release he will seek…
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The Lord Is a Great Writer
When Torah commands us to identify with the crowd at Sinai, it means for us to be one with the community of Israel. But can we identify with our fore-fathers and -mothers in the other sense of the word? Can the 21st Century New York apartment dweller imagine the experiences of a Middle Eastern desert…
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Syria Diplomat Seeking Friends Among Public
WASHINGTON — It has gone almost unnoticed in this media-saturated city that the man sent by Syrian President Bashar Assad to represent his country here at one of the lowest moments in bilateral relations is one of Syria’s most prominent reformists. Yet, in a little less than a year, Ambassador Imad Moustapha, 43, has reformed…
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Groups Win Support for Israel on Fence
WASHINGTON — With the International Court of Justice set to open hearings on Israel’s West Bank security fence, American Jewish organizations are claiming partial credit for the decision by Western governments to side with Jerusalem and promising a full-blown campaign in support of the barrier. “We perceive it as a new front in the war…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 6, 2004
Every other week, a page-plus of the Forverts is devoted to “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry,” edited by Eleanor “Chana” Mlotek. Each column carries a standard subhead, “In ondenk fun Yosef Mlotek” (In memory of Joseph Mlotek). Joseph “Yosl” Mlotek was a multitalented man. Not just a compiler of poems and songs, he was a writer,…
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