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The Colorful Worlds of Maira Kalman
The majority of children’s books are vomitous. They involve wishy-washy pale illustrations, cloying moral lessons and excessive use of the word “bunny.” So thank the richly colored heavens for Maira Kalman, a children’s book author who’s always a funny and astringent antidote to too much pastel goo-goo sugariness. And you don’t have to be a…
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At Federations’ Confab, Talk Focuses on Israeli Policies
JERUSALEM — It happens every year: Leaders of Jewish communal federations across North America gather in a different city to see old friends and meet new ones, to hear speakers on the hot topics facing Jews in their community and worldwide. Some issues are perennial and some problems persist, but this year, because the General…
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‘Get Larry King,’ Jokes Clinton at Rabin Center Gala
Some 500 guests at the November 2 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center gala at the Waldorf-Astoria were treated to a Russian-accented “God Bless America” by diva Elena Bokorova; a sublime “Hatikvah” by Israeli-born opera star Hadar Halevy De Vito and a bravura “Star-Spangled Banner” by Metropolitan Opera great Sherill Milnes. They chuckled at master…
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Billionaire Philanthropist Laurence Tisch Dies at 80
Laurence Tisch, the hotelier, corporate empire builder and champion of Jewish and general philanthropy, died of complications from cancer November 15 at the eponymous Tisch Hospital of the New York University Medical Center. He was 80. A self-made billionaire, Tisch built a sprawling business conglomerate with his brother Preston that included hotels, movie theaters, insurance,…
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A Bride’s Tough Call Over a Turn of Phrase
My fiance and I both are the products of divorce. Our mothers are each contributing to our wedding, but we are paying 75% of the cost on our own. We decided that the invitation should read “together with our families” we invite you to join us at our wedding. My future mother-in-law was outraged by…
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1. PAUL WOLFOWITZ
The deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, is probably the most talked-about figure in the Bush administration, and for good reason: He is the primary architect of the most important American foreign policy initiative in a generation: the plan to invade Iraq and establish a democracy in the heart of the Arab world. While he…
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Rival Russian Jewish Leaders Lend Backing to Putin
Russia’s arrest of a Jewish oil magnate has drawn heavy criticism from abroad, but the feuding leaders of the country’s two major Jewish organizations are both voicing support for the government action. In a rare moment of agreement between bitter rivals, Berel Lazar, chief rabbi for the Chabad-Lubavitch-dominated Federation of Russian Jews, and Yevgeny Satanovsky,…
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Cantankerous Old Man Discovers Soft Spot
Joseph Epstein Treats Readers to a Group of Entertaining Alte Cockers Fabulous Small Jews: Stories By Joseph Epstein Houghton Mifflin, 352 pages, $23. * * *| Jews have an age-old answer to snobbery. It’s called chutzpah. If some pretentious jerk looks down his nose at you because of the “-berg” at the end of your…
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ACTIVISM
AMY SCHWARTZMAN The religious leader of Temple Rodef Shalom in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, Va., Rabbi Amy Schwartzman made headlines in September when she confronted President Bush with the issue of poverty during a White House meeting between Bush and an invited group of rabbis. The other 16 clerics present took turns flattering…
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Leader of Reform Steps Out Against Bush and Sharon
MINNEAPOLIS — After two years of relative silence, the leader of America’s largest synagogue movement has returned to the policy stage with a full-bore attack on the policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon government. In a major policy address here last week, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the newly renamed Union for Reform…
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The Histories of the Holocaust
Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories By Omer Bartov Cornell University Press, 248 pages, $18.95. * * *| Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective By Dan Michman Vallentine Mitchell, 435 pages, $29.50. * * *| At several Holocaust conferences in recent years, the distinguished literary scholar Lawrence Langer has murmured in frustration: “Why don’t historians…
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