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Neocon Pair Outlines a Strategy To ‘End Evil’
Two of Washington’s most famed neoconservatives — David Frum and Richard Perle — have issued a stinging critique of America’s fight against terrorism and are urging more aggressive action. In their new book, “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror” (Random House), Frum and Perle call for universal biometric fingerprinting, immediate…
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Four Men Who Resisted History
According to Jewish belief, God transcends history. He started it and could intervene in it at any time. But by means of ritual practices, memorializing events, educational transmission and interpretive practices (for texts and for law), Jews emphatically live out the belief in a suprahistorical God in recognition that historical time matters. Moreover, God’s plan…
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Moscow Moves To Install Chabad Ally as Top Rabbi
JERUSALEM — The deputy mayor of Moscow is pushing for the merger of the offices of the two rival chief rabbis of Russian Jewry, the Forward has learned, in what is being seen as a bid by the government to install one as the sole representative of the divided community. The deputy mayor, Alexander Reisen,…
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Moscow Moves To Install Chabad Ally as Top Rabbi
JERUSALEM — The deputy mayor of Moscow is pushing for the merger of the offices of the two rival chief rabbis of Russian Jewry, the Forward has learned, in what is being seen as a bid by the government to install one as the sole representative of the divided community. The deputy mayor, Alexander Reisen,…
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Israel Fears Isolation, Sanctions Over Fence
WASHINGTON — Bracing for a ruling against its separation fence by the World Court — which could pave the way for South Africa-style international sanctions — Israel and its allies here are considering a campaign to discredit the court as a biased organ of the United Nations. The proposed campaign is highly controversial even among…
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Knish Nosh
Like its fellow Europeans steaming in the hot dog cart — frankfurters, sauerkraut and pretzels — the knish has by now achieved a pretty solid standing in American society, such that its ancestral origins are no longer much thought about. Its name, though, can’t help but give it away, what with that distinctive two-syllable “k-n”…
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Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi Remarks
Participants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine. Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel discussion was…
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Like a Ripe Brie, Paris’s Kosher Scene Comes of Age
Like a bottle of fine Bordeaux or a ripe brie, Paris’s kosher scene has come of age. When Polish Holocaust survivors Joseph and Helene Korcarz opened their eponymous bakery in 1948, it was one of only a handful of kosher eateries, which were relegated primarily to the narrow streets of Le Marais, the city’s historic…
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Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi Remarks
Participants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine. Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel discussion was…
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Stars Come Out for Israel Philharmonic
The American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall began without preamble on December 15. Zubin Mehta, the IPO’s conductor and music director for life, strode across the stage and led a standing orchestra in a stirring “Star-Spangled Banner” followed by a spine-tingling “Hatikvah.” After thanking IPO’s “great friend Lily Safra,” who…
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Newsdesk January 9, 2004
Israelis To Visit Libya Following the announcement by President Muammar Gadhafi last month that Libya is willing to forgo its weapons of mass destruction, Israel has initiated diplomatic contacts with Tripoli. The head of the Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic team, Ron Prosor, met in Paris in late December with Libyan diplomats, in order to establish a…
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