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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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Oh Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel + 710 = A New Record
The University of Maryland suffered a bitter defeat this weekend — no matter how you spin it. One of the student body’s proudest achievements was shattered in a crushing rout by a rival. It wasn’t a basketball or football championship game that they lost. It was the “Dreidel Cup.” On Sunday, the Helene G. Simon…
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Yiddish Literary Scholar Chaim Bader Dead at 83
Chaim Bader, a Yiddish poet, author, journalist and literary scholar, died of cancer Sunday morning in New York. He was 83. He was born into a family of furriers in Kupel, a small town in Volhynia in what is today Ukraine, to parents who were barely literate. He, his brother and his three sisters were…
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For the Love of Words: Gift Ideas for the Bookish
It’s Chanukah. Again. And for many people that means it’s time to go shopping. Why not let this year’s Festival of Lights provide an excuse to give a literary gift to one of your fellow People of the Book? After all, books make wonderful gifts, especially this year, with Jewish Book Month leading right up…
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Winning War on Terror Requires Reconsideration of Saudi Alliance
More than a year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, told an Arab media outlet that he thought “the Jews” were responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. When a senior member of the Saudi ruling family — its top law enforcement officer responsible…
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Jewish Agency Maintains Funding Split
After months of heated political battles, the Jewish Agency for Israel has managed to thwart efforts to cut its funding from American charitable federations. Faced with shrinking donations from federations and changing needs abroad, the federations’ national roof body, the United Jewish Communities, had spent the past year in a messy tug-of-war over whether to…
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Enough Sugar for Eight Miraculous Nights
December is not the most fun time of the year if you’re Jewish. Sure, we’ve got Chanukah, with its fried foods and eight days of gifts. But there’s another holiday that gets all the fanfare. Chanukah just can’t compete. It is in this spirit that we present the Candy Menorah, our answer to the gingerbread…
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