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DREIDELS APLENTY
Dreidels are widely acknowledged as a key element of a successful Chanukah. Still, most people can make do with one or two. Not Mickey Langsfeld though. He has accumulated a massive collection of dreidels made of everything from parchment to ivory. More than 100 of Langsfeld’s dreidels are currently on display at the Temple Judea…
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Patent Office Rules Against Kabbalists
Thanks to The Kabbalah Centre, various celebrities can be spotted donning red strings on their wrists that Jewish mystics say can ward off evil spirits. Apparently the threads, also known as bindles, do not work against the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent office has rejected an attempt by The Kabbalah Centre to…
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Arab States Mulling Endorsement of Geneva Initiative
several middle east countries are discussing ways to endorse the recent unofficial peace agreement known as the geneva understandings, according to an american scholar who played a key role in promoting a previous arab-backed peace initiative. Henry Siegman, a former head of the American Jewish Congress and longtime supporter of a two-state solution, told the…
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PLAYING GAMES WITH THE NAZIS
There was more on display at the 1936 Berlin Olympics than just athleticism. For Adolf Hitler the Olympics provided a world stage to showcase Germany’s Nazi regime. The 1936 Games are the focus of the exhibit “The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936,” on display at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Using photographs, historical documents, propaganda posters and…
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Newsdesk December 12, 2003
Minister Pushing Reform Israel’s interior minister, Avraham Poraz of the anti-clerical Shinui party, is planning to submit a sweeping reform of immigration and citizenship rules for Cabinet approval next week, according to a report in the daily Yediot Aharonot. The new rules would allow the granting of citizenship or permanent residency to tens of thousands…
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Adon Olam, Truly
One of the strange quirks of life in rural East Africa today is that while many communities lack electricity and running water, there are people with personal Web sites, e-mail and cellphones. And so it is that Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, an ethnomusicologist at Tufts University and the executive director of the university’s Hillel foundation, has…
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Israelis Push for Bigger Cut of Shoah Funds
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government is demanding a dramatically increased role in running the agency that administers Holocaust-era reparations and restitution payments, in what government leaders frankly acknowledged was an effort to direct a larger share of restitution funds toward Israel. In a blunt and sometimes confrontational meeting here last week between Israeli Cabinet ministers…
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Statistics Show Tourism to Israel Continuing To Climb
JERUSALEM — Tourism to Israel continues to show a steady increase, with as many tourists coming to Israel in the first 10 months of 2003 as came in all of 2002. Figures released last week by the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Tourism Ministry show that a total of 852,400 tourists visited Israel from…
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The Two Souths
Whenever the phone rings in my New York apartment and the Caller ID screen says “Out of Area,” I never know just how far away from Manhattan it is. Sometimes it’s my father-in-law calling from Chile; other times it’s my father from his unlisted number in Pennsylvania. When my husband, Leo, and I refer to…
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Israel Riled As Geneva ‘Pact’ Gains Supporters
WASHINGTON — As tensions grew between Israel and America this week over the Bush administration’s support for the Geneva Understandings, backers of the informal peace plan appear to be winning over some American Jewish groups, threatening to split a key pillar of Jerusalem’s support base in the United States. In one dramatic sign of a…
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Philanthropist Aiming To Reach Out to Cultural Jews
If Felix Posen had his way, American Jewish schools would teach the Bible less as a holy book than as a classic work of literature. “You teach Judaism as a culture. You start with the Bible, the first piece of literature we Jews created,” the London philanthropist said. “God is not dead; he is a…
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