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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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Women Pass the Pigskin On Israeli Football Team
JERUSALEM — This Sunday, large numbers of Israelis will be watching the Super Bowl, cheering on the New England Patriots and their philanthropic-minded owner, Robert Kraft. A few weeks later, they’ll be cheering on a very different football team backed by Kraft — a team of young women, many of them Orthodox Jews. Kraft does…
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Meet the Meat Boycotters: The Ladies Anti-Beef Trust Association
During the past few weeks, the subject of meat has set tongues wagging and heads shaking as many of us wonder whether the recent outbreak in the United States of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, is cause for concern, consternation or abstinence. Perhaps the last time American meat, as such, made…
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Arrests in France Shed Light on ‘Chechen’ Network of Terrorists
PARIS — French officials claim they foiled a campaign of chemical and biological terrorist attacks in Western Europe by militants trained in the Caucasus region. The arrest of several Arab Muslim activists in central France in late December has provided investigators with clues about the goals of a so-called “Chechen” terrorist network that was initially…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 30, 2004
For Stanley Siegelman, our versatile versifier, any news, especially if it is on the odd or weird side, is grist for his poetic mill, as regular readers of Der Vinkl must now know. He somehow manages to mix good humor with vitriol. The latest victim of his acerbic pleasantry is Michael Jackson, who has been…
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