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UJC Names Vice President For Policy, Replacing Aviv
WASHINGTON — The country’s leading Jewish charitable network has tapped someone to replace its departed powerhouse Washington director. The United Jewish Communities last week announced that it had hired Charles Konigsberg, a longtime congressional staffer, to replace Diana Aviv as the organization’s vice president for public policy. The appointment ends the fitful, six-month effort to…
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Once Upon a Time — Once Again
Professional storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry read a story about lighting Chanukah candles to 12 sets of eager ears several weeks before Chanukah. In her story, she and her mischievous cousin Zisel nearly burn down the family barn while conducting a menorah-lighting ceremony using a hollowed-out potato, a string smeared with chicken fat, three matches and a…
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Trying To Match Bush’s Monetary Might
The decision of two Democratic presidential candidates, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and former Vermont governor Howard Dean, to forego federal funding in their campaigns must come as a shocker to many Democrats. Federal funding of presidential campaigns was supposed to be a way to liberate candidates from the need to obligate themselves to the…
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Listen to Me a Chess Move?
From Zelde Krulewitz comes a letter asking about the Yiddish expression folg mir a gang. “I would dearly love to know,” she writes, “not only the literal translation of this phrase but its meaning and correct usage — i.e., under what circumstances one would say such a thing.” A literal translation of folg mir a…
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Candidates’ Representatives Discuss Jewish Vote, Middle East
Representatives for seven of the nine Democratic presidential candidates squared off this week on issues of importance to the Jewish community, ranging from health care and abortion to Israel and the war on terrorism. The “Democratic Presidential Insider Roundtable,” sponsored by the New York chapter of the National Jewish Democratic Council, was held on Tuesday…
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PSALM 151
Every death before mine Absorbed, builds the bone Of a skeleton, my own, Flesh shall not confine Long enough to suit me — I wish I had the time Of a redwood tree — Samuel Menashe ——— Born in New York in 1925, Samuel Menashe enlisted in the Army in 1943 and fought in the…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Jews for Clark: As retired general Wesley Clark campaigned at a large synagogue in south Florida this week, one of the grassroots groups supporting his campaign, “Jews for Clark,” was spreading the word about the general with an e-mail message that raised some eyebrows at Clark’s campaign headquarters in Little Rock. The e-mail message puts…
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Hammer Time
The brilliance of “The Hebrew Hammer,” an edgy, often shocking jewploitation action film, is not just that it will do anything to get laughs, but that it often doesn’t seem to know how far it is actually going. Any film that begins with the dedication “To all my Jewish brothers and sisters who have had…
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Forward Editor To Join Mideast Forum Online
Forward National Editor Ami Eden will be participating in a week-long online book discussion on “Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Visit amieden.com on Monday December 8 to view the discussion, which will also feature Steven I. Weiss and Pinchas Shapiro of protocols.blogspot.com, Brad Pilcher of justanotherrant.blogspot.com, and Daniel “Mobius” Sieradski…
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Seeking Mameloshn Down South
The following essay is an abbreviated version of the introduction to “Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing,” edited by Alan Astro and released by the University of New Mexico Press. In the ever-popular “The Joys of Yiddish” (1968), Leo Rosten offered the following definition for Ladino: “Ladino, or Judesmo,…
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Israel Rules ‘Treason’ Label Rude But Legal
Israel’s attorney general has declined to bring incitement charges against 250 rabbis who signed a religious ruling branding liberal opposition leaders as traitors for their role in the Geneva Understandings. The decision not to prosecute was hailed by Orthodox leaders in Israel and the United States, many of whom were vehemently opposed to the peace…
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