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Straight Talk About Hair Getting to the Roots of Self-Loathing, Self-Confidence
Elissa Douchy is proud of her Sephardic roots — but not the ones attached to her hairline. She hates her curly hair enough to make a weekly trek to an unlicensed Dominican beauty salon in northern Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, where her hair is blow-dried straight. The procedure often takes two and a half hours,…
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Citing 1st Amendment, N.Y. Court Dismisses ‘Chained Wife’ Appeal
Reasserting the constitutional right of ecclesiastical tribunals to operate free of governmental oversight, a New York court has dismissed a lawsuit against several rabbis alleging defamation and bribery in the course of an Orthodox divorce proceeding. The case, which has received intense media coverage in recent years, was brought by Helen Chayie Sieger, a member…
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Steinhardt Proposes Fund for Education
Billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt delivered a fiery speech last week, calling for a radical reordering of Jewish communal priorities and the creation of an unprecedented fund to promote Jewish education. Speaking last week to a gathering in Jerusalem of thousands of North American Jewish communal leaders, Steinhardt startled his listeners by demanding that Jewish education…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 28, 2003
In the latter half of the 20th century, Ruth Rubin was one of the major figures in promoting Yiddish folk traditions — in music. She was a performer, a recording artist and a translator of Yiddish songs into English. Much of her written work is preserved in “Jewish Folk Songs” (1950). One of the songs…
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Painting a Fuller Picture of Ruby, Killer of Kennedy’s Assassin
With the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death came the predictable wave of reflections on his presidency and zany theories on his assassination. At least one assassination aficionado, however, is working to discredit the many conspiratorial narratives that seek to include Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s assassin. Armed only…
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New WJC Spat as Official Rejects Brown
JERUSALEM – Controversy is exploding yet again at the World Jewish Congress, an organization that has been wracked by internal feuding. In the latest twist, the co-chairman of the WJC’s Jerusalem branch is declaring he is furious over the naming two weeks ago of a new director to head his organization’s Jerusalem office, and has…
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Blame the Mothers
At Isaac’s pleading, God allows the infertile Rebecca to conceive, but her pregnancy is painful, a torment. Distraught, she cries out, and God tells her that the upheaval in her womb will result ultimately in the triumph of the younger of her twin sons, Jacob, over Esau, the elder. At their birth, the second son…
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Sharon Going on Offensive As Geneva Initiative Gains
JERUSALEM — The scheduled launch ceremony next week of the so-called Geneva Understandings is agitating the Israeli government, creating new tensions in its relations with the Bush administration and increasing pressure on Prime Minister Sharon to come up with a viable peace plan of his own. The growing interest in the Geneva initiative at home…
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Wisconsin Hillel’s Saposnik, Pioneer of Jewish Literature
Irving S. Saposnik, a former executive director of Hillel at the University of Wisconsin and one of the pioneer professors who brought the study of American Jewish literature into American higher education, died November 20 after a 13-month struggle with brain cancer. He was 67. Saposnik was still teaching a course, titled “Yiddish Literature in…
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Alan Alda Issues Verdict on Court TV
Henry Schleiff, chairman and CEO of Court TV Network, was presented with the Torch of Liberty Award at the Anti-Defamation League’s November 6 dinner at the Plaza. “There’s no CEO in our business like Henry Schleiff,” said master of ceremonies Regis Philbin. Time Warner’s chairman and CEO, Richard Parsons, joshed: “Welcome to the 50th anniversary…
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In Critical Ohio, Dem Hopefuls Taking a Powder In Primary Race
CLEVELAND — Despite all the hoopla in Iowa and New Hampshire and the rivers of ink spilled in the national press, the Democratic presidential race has yet to make an impression around these parts. Candidates, preoccupied with earlier primary contests, have paid little attention to Ohio, local operatives say. Elsewhere, former Vermont governor Howard Dean…
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