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Pome-Grenade
‘A haunting story about love, language, and loss,” the February 9 issue of The Jerusalem Report calls Israeli-born, Canadian-Jewish author Edeet Ravel’s first novel “Ten Thousand Lovers.” Set in an Israel of disillusionment, a land of sadly lapsed ideals, “Ten Thousand Lovers” (Headline, 2003), the magazine informs us, is a bestseller in Canada and has…
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Suicide Blast Kills Counselor, Ten Others
TEL AVIV — Riding together recently on a Jerusalem bus, Devora Goldberg, 19, asked her uncle whether being on buses in Israel frightened him. Outside of his home, where relatives and friends now gather to sit shiva for the 42-year-old Yechezkel “Chezi” Goldberg, one of 11 people killed in last Thursday’s bus bombing, she repeats…
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In the Beginning
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? By William G. Dever Eerdmans, 280 pages, $25. * * *| Both Jews and Christians, brought up in their respective religious traditions, might be surprised by the title of this new book by William Dever, a veteran Near Eastern archeologist. They read the Hebrew…
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Israel Makes Play for Swiss Bank Funds
The Israeli government and an international Holocaust restitution organization with which it is allied are raising eyebrows — and hackles — with a proposal that 48% of any funds left unclaimed from the $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement be assigned to Israeli charities and government ministries. The request comes in a proposal submitted by the…
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The Spiritual Life of Dreams
Call me crazy, but I am suspicious of anyone who claims to have heard a message from God delivered through his or her dreams. But if anyone could convince me that such a communication is possible, it’s Vanessa L. Ochs. Ochs, a professor at the University of Virginia who is an expert on the history…
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Tempers Flare at Parley on Antisemitism
An international conference on antisemitism exploded in pandemonium last week when one rabbi warned against rushing to classify the January 19 suicide bombing in Jerusalem as an anti-Jewish attack, several participants said. The controversy erupted after Rabbi Uri Regev, executive director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the global arm of the Reform movement,…
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Of Pulses and Pottage
We’ve all had moments when we felt hungry and exhausted enough to give up everything for a hot meal, but very few of us have actually gone ahead and done it. That’s exactly what happens, though, midway through the Book of Genesis: Esau, having returned from an unsuccessful hunting trip, sells his birthright to his…
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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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‘Silence Is Not Golden,’ Jarvis Says at King Tribute
An inspiring tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. by the Consulate General of Israel, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and the Jewish National Fund was hosted by Israel’s consul general, Alon Pinkas, at his residence. The January 22 event honored Rep. Gregory Meeks, former St. Johns basketball coach Mike Jarvis and Baraka…
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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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