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Joe Is Losing Poll Strength In the States Voting Feb. 3
Bye-bye, bounce. Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, riding a wave of press attention after Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean brought sympathy and the capture of Saddam Hussein bolstered his pro-war stance, has been positioning himself as the “anti-Dean,” the “clear choice” for those dissatisfied with the front-runner. But polls show that Lieberman, far from gaining…
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Economic Recovery, Always Just Around the Corner
Herbert Hoover, the Republican president of the United States during the beginning of the Great Depression, seems to have set a style of coping with economic disaster that is now being copied by our modern “Hoovers.” As the worst depression ever experienced in the United States deepened, Hoover decided that what was needed was to…
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Bush Seeks To Pressure Iran, Syria On Weapons
WASHINGTON — Encouraged by Libya’s surprise decision to abandon its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration has instructed its Middle East experts to seek ways of pressing for similar changes in Syria and Iran. Staffers at the State and Defense departments have been told to step up efforts to elicit change in…
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Jews for Jesus Draws Opposition in Florida
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A fierce religious turf battle exploded in South Florida last month, as a Christian missionary blitz drew fierce opposition from Jewish groups. As part of its “Behold Your God” campaign, several dozen Jews for Jesus activists spent two weeks in mid-December attempting to win over members of the 225,000-person Jewish community in…
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News Report on Illegal Outposts Prompts Calls for Probe of WZO
American Jewish communal leaders are calling for an investigation into the activities of the World Zionist Organization, a Jerusalem-based confederation of Diaspora Zionist groups, following an Israeli news report alleging that the body was funneling money to illegal settlement outposts. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on December 26 that Israeli government ministries were using the…
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Evoking a Community That Is the Sum of Its Shards
In the final pages of Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel “Human Parts,” a disabled and unemployed cab driver named Boaz Beit-Halahmi drives from his home in a Ramle slum to a medical clinic in Jerusalem. After months of ennui and privation, he has decided to seek a cure that might let him start supporting his household again….
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Florida Shoah Survivors Facing New Set of Woes: Age, Infirmity, Poverty
HALLANDALE, Fla. — With thick-rimmed glasses perched on his forehead and his hands folded across a woolly knit sweater, Aaron Stern looks more like the world-renowned behavioral scientist he once was than the man he has become: a Holocaust survivor who cannot pay his own rent. The articulate 85-year-old has triumphed over enough adversity for…
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Traversing the World, in Search of Jewish Stories
REEL LIFE: In a banner year for documentaries, yet another gem emerges –– ‘Dziga and His Brothers,’ by Yevgeni Tsymbal, center. Other films include, from left to right, ‘Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust,’ ‘Alila’ and ‘Kafka Goes to the Movies.’ This year’s New York Jewish Film Festival features a variety of…
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Right Wing Gears Up for Clash With Sharon
JERUSALEM — Israel’s right wing is gearing up for a confrontation with the government in the coming days, in the wake of Prime Minister Sharon’s decision this week to start removing so-called illegal Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank. Sharon announced on Sunday that he had decided to remove four outposts, out of an…
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Mr. Schwartzman
Every night Mr. Schwartzman opens his Lazarus eyes and looks around at the dead eyeballs, broken fingers and mouths stuffed with screams. His five dead children ride a carousel round the inside of his cracked dreams, each a continent, a resume filed at Auschwitz. For piano lessons, I write his letters to a dead older…
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Jewish Paper Uses ‘Latin Flavor’ To Fill a Void
Jacqueline Donado, managing editor of the New York-based Spanish-language newspaper El Diario La Prensa, has seen many Spanish papers pop up in the city. “There are monthly, biweekly, weeklies, dailies,” Donado said. “There are Mom and Pop newspapers…. [There are] papers that are going by nationality; there is one for taxi drivers, one for elevator…
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