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Funding Lower for Senior-care Program
WASHINGTON — Federal funding for a senior-care program pioneered by Jewish welfare federations is being reduced, with a record number of communities splitting the decreased pie. Twenty-one Jewish federations — up from 13 in 2003 — are expected to receive federal funds for the experimental program, known as Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, or NORCs. According…
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Man of the Book: Reading a Life of Salman Schocken
The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken (1877-1959) By Anthony David Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 352 pages, $30. * * *| You may have never heard of the publisher Salman Schocken, an intellectual’s businessman as well as a businessman’s intellectual; even some leading New York editors of the past 30 years know little…
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Battling a ‘Bunch of Thugs’
In addressing troops in Colorado on his way to his ranch in Texas, President Bush declared that he would not be intimidated by a “bunch of thugs.” He was referring, of course, to those plaguing our troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The president’s use of the term “thugs” may shed light on why these…
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How American Eugenicists Helped Shape Nazi Tactics
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign To Create a Master Race By Edwin Black Four Walls Eight Windows, 518 pages, $26. * * *| Edwin Black, the author of the award-winning “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation” (Crown, 2001), has written a provocative new…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Junk Food Joe: Before the news of Al Gore’s endorsement roiled the field, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman was pushing his pro-family sally against junk food and those who would sell it to American children. “Parents today are being forced to contend with a new threat: big food companies targeting junk food at children,” Lieberman said…
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Language of Lachish
Sandra Metzger writes to ask: “Would you possibly know of an ancient battle that sounds like ‘Lekesh’ but is spelled differently? I read about it 20 years ago in a book on archaeology and the Bible, which was later stolen in Liverpool, England, when in transport back to America. A hole in my memory prevents…
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Gore’s Dean Endorsement Exposes Lieberman’s Woes
Fulfilling their need to name a winner and a loser for every campaign development, pundits were describing former vice president Al Gore’s endorsement this week of former Vermont governor Howard Dean as a body blow to the presidential aspirations of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. Lieberman clearly was surprised and chagrined by the move of his…
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Upper West Side Adolescence
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W By Gabriel Brownstein W.W. Norton, 224 pages, $13.95. * * *| Contemporary American Judaism of the culturally oriented, lox-and-bagels-on-Sundays variety has always maintained a conflicted relationship with traditionally minded Orthodoxy: Orthodox practice is stigmatized, viewed as a mindless celebration of past tradition that wholly ignores contemporary mores,…
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Russian Politics as Usual, With Putin’s Grasp Firm
LONDON — There was a time not too long ago that Russia was famous for its instability. Observers joked that if President Boris Yeltsin lived long enough everyone would get a crack at being prime minister. President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 promising to change all that, to make life predictable again for…
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David Friedman, Journalist, Dies
The former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, David Friedman, died December after a long illness. He was 68. Friedman served as JTA’s Washington bureau chief from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. During his tenure, Friedman covered pivotal news events, including Israel’s war in Lebanon, the first Palestinian intifada and the Soviet…
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The Essense of Chanukah Cookery Lies in the Oil, Not the Latke
It is difficult to imagine a more festive holiday, or one to be more happily observed, than that which prescribes the eating of fried foods. Such good fortune is ours each year on Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, when the oil that stands at the center of the celebration migrates from the miraculous Maccabean cruse…
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