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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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Sephardic Arks
A New York Times article last month about the Jewish community of Istanbul contained a description of its oldest synagogue, the Ahrida, which was untouched by the recent bombings. The synagogue’s “main feature,” the Times observed, “is its teva, or pulpit, which is shaped like an ark. Some people say it was built to commemorate…
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Rhodes Scholar Heads to Iraq as Military Officer
By virtue of the Rhodes Scholarship he was awarded in November, Daniel Helmer is scheduled to study at Oxford University this fall. Before he heads to England, however, he is going to Iraq. Helmer, a 22-year-old from Colts Neck, N.J., was an academic overachiever as an undergraduate. He was also a member of the gymnastics…
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So We’re All Sephardim Now? Not Exactly
Sepharad By Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden Harcourt, 384 pages, $27. * * *| There is something utterly annoying, even infuriating, about “Sepharad,” the second novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina — a Spaniard born in 1956 — to be translated into English. Originally written in Madrid in 2000, “Sepharad”…
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Orthodox Warrior Keeps Kosher on the Front Lines
Mikhail Ekshtut is a warrior. His mom is a worrier. So when the Air Force Reserve called Ekshtut up to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he had a problem. One of the relatively few Orthodox Jews in the American military, Technical Sergeant Ekshtut hesitated to commit an untruth. But he also guessed…
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Folksbiene Spins Revolving Doors of Comedy
For its 89th season, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater is presenting Leon Kobrin’s comedy on immigrant life — “The Lady Next Door” (in Yinglish, “Di Next-door-ike”). The Folksbiene is the only professional Yiddish theater in America, and its performances and future plans are particularly significant to the Yiddish cultural world. This year, for the first time,…
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There Was a Chasid Who Had a Farm (Correction)
Adam Berman was incorrectly identified in the December 26, 2003, article “There Was a Chasid Who Had a Farm.” He is the executive director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut.
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A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith
Last week, more than 200 Jews gathered in downtown Manhattan for New York’s annual gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community Chanukah party, pausing to look back at a watershed year and looking ahead to the challenges of the next. Although the party was at the same place and time as last year’s, there was…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Neoconspiracy Theories: The notion that neoconservatives are “Jews who serve the interests of Israel” has been embraced “with varying degrees of delicacy” by political actors ranging from Patrick Buchanan to European news outlets, writes Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. It is, Boot…
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Not-So-Hidden Hate
I always wanted an e-mail address to run with this column. I enjoy the immediacy of hearing from readers, without any filter. And I want to make contacting me as easy as possible — no need to find a stamp or bug those busy fellas at the “letters” page. I like knowing which topics strike…
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