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Newsdesk November 21, 2003
Ford To Stop Funding Hate The Ford Foundation admitted it erred in funding anti-Israel groups and pledged to stop funding antisemitic activities. The foundation said it was “disgusted” by anti-Israel and antisemitic agitation at the 2001 U.N. Conference Against Racism at Durban, South Africa, which the foundation helped finance. In a letter to Rep. Jerrold…
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If Only You Would Listen
Some people pre-plan their funerals, right down to locking in today’s price for the whole deal by pre-paying as well. This week’s portion begins with a veritable infomercial for that practice, a demonstration of what can go wrong if you leave the final arrangements for their due time. At Sarah’s death in the opening verse…
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1. PAUL WOLFOWITZ
The deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, is probably the most talked-about figure in the Bush administration, and for good reason: He is the primary architect of the most important American foreign policy initiative in a generation: the plan to invade Iraq and establish a democracy in the heart of the Arab world. While he…
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Groups Rebuke Powell, Annan for Endorsement Of Geneva Peace Plan; Leader of Reform Steps Out Against Bush and Sharon
WASHINGTON — With American and international support building for an alternative Middle East peace plan opposed by Prime Minister Sharon, several Jewish groups stepped up their attacks on the initiative and its supporters. Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America publicly rebuked Secretary of State Colin Powell this week for sending a…
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Washington Seeking To Reduce Number of Anti-Israel Votes at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is embarking on the most comprehensive campaign in years to reduce the number of anti-Israel resolutions routinely passed by the United Nations General Assembly. Top State Department officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, have lobbied capitals, ministers and diplomats in recent months to reduce the number of votes…
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New Plan Brings Financial Fitness to San Francisco Community Center
Nate Levine may have cracked the JCC code. About a quarter-century ago, when Levine was a recent college graduate handing out gym towels at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, he overheard people talking about the JCC’s need for a new, modern facility. Private fitness clubs, with their seemingly inexhaustible budgets for equipment and…
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LOOKING AT OSKAR SCHINDLER’S LEGACY
Oskar Schindler was immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List.” Now the German industrialist, who managed to save the lives of more than 1,000 Jews by arranging for them to work under his protection in his factories, is the subject of a touring exhibit curated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Schindler,” which…
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ADL Interfaith Official Quits, Stance on Film Questioned
A leading critic of Mel Gibson’s controversial film about the death of Jesus has resigned from his post at the Anti-Defamation League. Eugene Korn, the ADL’s director of interfaith affairs, told the Forward that his resignation last week represented a “mutual decision” resulting from his need for “a more reflective and contemplative environment.” Korn’s departure…
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Baby Food Scare Breeds Fear, Suspicion Among Israelis
JERUSALEM — Israelis often suppose that their long history of warfare, capped by three years of bloody intifada, have all but immunized them against life’s more mundane fears and anxieties. But nothing could have prepared them for the sheer terror raised this week by the specter of tainted baby food. That terror swept the Jewish…
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Agenda Fails To Inspire Mega-donors
The popular American humorist Garrison Keillor once said, “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” It’s a clever line but, if practiced, a prescription for failure. If we don’t like the existing reality, then we need to do something about it. For those of us committed to the viability of…
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METROPOLITAN N.Y.
Lectures and Discussions Yehoshua Speaks: Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua delivers the annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture, named after the late founding editor of Dissent magazine. The acclaimed literary figure speaks on the topic of “The Root of Anti-Semitism,” with a response from City University of New York historian Elisheva Carlebach. City University of New York…
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