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Billionaire Philanthropist Laurence Tisch Dies at 80
Laurence Tisch, the hotelier, corporate empire builder and champion of Jewish and general philanthropy, died of complications from cancer November 15 at the eponymous Tisch Hospital of the New York University Medical Center. He was 80. A self-made billionaire, Tisch built a sprawling business conglomerate with his brother Preston that included hotels, movie theaters, insurance,…
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A Bride’s Tough Call Over a Turn of Phrase
My fiance and I both are the products of divorce. Our mothers are each contributing to our wedding, but we are paying 75% of the cost on our own. We decided that the invitation should read “together with our families” we invite you to join us at our wedding. My future mother-in-law was outraged by…
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A Traveling Holiday
This year, Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 27. Or so they would have you believe. With life as complicated as it is, and everything from DVD players to the Internet being “wireless,” doesn’t it stand to reason that holidays can be portable too? Holidays, especially Thanksgiving, are usually happy, food-filled marks of a specific time…
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The Spooks Speak: Former Shin Bet Chiefs Talk of Peace
Following are excerpts from a round-table discussion among four former directors of Israel’s Shin Bet General Security Service, published November 14 by Yediot Aharonot. The participants: Avraham Shalom (director 1980-1986), Yaakov Peri (1988-1995), Carmi Gillon (1995-96) and Ami Ayalon (1996-2000). All rose through the ranks, except Ayalon, a former Navy commander. The meeting was moderated…
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CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
HIRSCH: Setting the scenes. Growing up in postwar England as the son of German-Jewish refugees wasn’t always easy for Robin Hirsch. He remembers standing in line at the school cafeteria at the age of 6 with his fellow students, when his best friend — of all people — proclaimed, “Hirsch is a Nazi. I’ve been…
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Lawmakers Hail Netanyahu Plan For Economy
WASHINGTON — Republican senators are hailing the plans of Israel’s finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking to heal Israel’s war-ravaged economy with a set of reforms modeled on those of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Last week, Netanyahu impressed a crowd of 10 senators and dozens of congressional staffers on Capitol Hill by describing…
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Community Gathers To Grieve in Istanbul
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Yoel Ulcer was so set on helping Istanbul’s Jewish community that he could hardly wait to turn 18, when he could join the corps of volunteer guards that stands outside synagogues and Jewish institutions in Turkey’s commercial capital. Ulcer’s devotion cost him his life: He was one of 25 people, including six…
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Lectures and Discussions Post-Holocaust Lithuania: Poet and former Lithuanian dissident Tomas Venclova speaks on life after the Holocaust in contemporary Lithuania. Venclova, who came to the United States in 1977 and is a professor at Yale University, has worked for Lithuanian-Jewish reconciliation and has urged his countrymen to confront their history of collaboration with the…
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The Lesson From Istanbul: Terrorism Knows No Borders
The terrorist attacks against two synagogues in Istanbul on November 15 should serve as another warning of the grand ambitions of the global jihadist movement. The territory of NATO’s only Muslim member, a country that has been an American ally for 50 years, is now part of the global battlefield in the war against terrorism….
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Europe’s Leaders Confront Antisemitism
The recent bombings of synagogues in Turkey and an attack on a Jewish school in France appear to have jolted European leaders into action against antisemitism. After the school near Paris was burned down last week, French President Jacques Chirac announced the creation of a special inter-ministerial entity to deal with antisemitic incidents. Italian Prime…
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SEPHARDIM ON THE BIG SCREEN
Moshe cannot be blamed if he’s a little bit confused. The kippa-clad Ethiopian immigrant protagonist of Zion Rubin’s 2001 film “Caravan 841” cannot figure out why his mother has not yet joined him in Israel. As he anxiously awaits the arrival of his only living parent, 11-year-old Moshe must cope with the imminent closure of…
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