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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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Hollinger Woes Casting a Pall Over Future of Neocon Papers
A convergence of unrelated financial scandals is threatening to sink the tiny but influential boat of Jewish-flavored conservative journalism. At the center of the controversy is Hollinger International, a media company that owns dozens of conservative newspapers, including the hawkish Jerusalem Post. An internal investigation into improper payments allegedly made to Hollinger’s majority owner and…
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Rebel, Rebel: A New Book Plumbs the Life of Chasidic Girls
Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls By Stephanie Wellen Levine New York University Press, 239 pages, $26.95. * * *| Alone among the chasidic groups, Lubavitch is always willing to give access to writers who are irresistibly attracted to the idea of reporting on an apparently impenetrable, exotic sect. Most of…
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In This Week’s Yiddish Forward
• B. Nadel continues his series on Josephus Flavius and his world. • Mikhail Krutikov writes on the Jewish voice in Austrian literature. • Morkhe Dunitz reports on an international poetry festival that took place in Jerusalem in October. • Alexander Cohen-Zedek writes on a new book in Yiddish by his mother, Elisheva Cohen-Zedek. In…
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Authorities Investigate Incidents at Jewish Sites
Law-enforcement authorities have opened investigations into two incidents in the Washington area involving suspicious surveillance of Jewish institutions, the Forward has learned. The investigations began last month, but has gained new urgency in the wake of the November 15 terrorist bombings of two synagogues in Turkey, and amid new warnings from Israel about threats against…
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Arts & Letters; Worth Thousands of Words
This fall has brought a sumptuous bounty for lovers of photography and Jewish culture. Several blockbuster exhibitions are on view, including “The Jewish Journey: Frédéric Brenner’s Photographic Odyssey” (at the Brooklyn Museum of Art); “As Seen By…,” images from Life magazine by distinguished American Jewish photographers (at Manhattan’s Center for Jewish History); and “Diane Arbus…
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Swallowing Hard, Sharon Mulls A New Palestinian Cease-Fire
JERUSALEM — Faced with growing internal discontent and increasing international criticism of his policies, Prime Minister Sharon is reluctantly moving ahead with efforts to achieve a new Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire and revive the moribund peace process. Sharon is expected to meet within the next few days with the newly appointed Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, to…
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Losing ‘Hope’
Harold J. White of Gloucester, Mass. writes: “Recently, friends asked me about the Hebrew word for ‘hope,’ tikvah, which they wanted to use in some announcement. Out of curiosity, I checked the concordance to the Bible and [the biblical dictionary of Wilhelm] Gesenius. The word tikvah does not occur there. And yet Hatikvah, ‘The Hope,’…
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