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Cracks Form in the Wall of Separation
A revolution is underway in church-state relations, and the Jewish community has yet to grapple forthrightly with it. In earlier years, the constitutional rule in regard to the disbursement of public money to religious institutions was simple: Aid that gave a substantial benefit to institutions teaching religion was impermissible. By contrast, the current legal regime…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 14, 2003
The Yiddish Forward devoted a page in its October 10 edition to Sukkot and Simchat Torah. These holidays are, like Thanksgiving, related to the harvest time. Indeed, some believe that the colonial Thanksgiving was based on the Puritans’ reading of the Old Testament. Sukkot runs for several days and closes with the reading of the…
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On National Mall, a Gathering of Guardians of Shoah Memory
“Remember, fellow survivors, when we emerged from the ghettos and the forests and the death camps, hopelessly determined to invoke hope and tell the tales, few were willing to listen. Survivors were understood by survivors alone. They spoke in code. Those who were not there will never know what it meant being there. All outsiders…
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Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies (Correction)
Jonathan Wilner took the Disneyland photo that appeared with the October 24 East Village Mamele column. The October 24 article “Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies” misidentified New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. The Council is an independent organization with UJA-Federation affiliation. Melissa Oringer was incorrectly identified in the October 31 article “Nice Jewitch…
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PSALM 151 PSALM 151
Born in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated from Yale in 1970, and by the late 1970s found his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives. There he joined a group of poets often called the “language school,” whose work is distinguished by a close attention to the puzzles and perils…
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Conspiracy Theories: It is, it seems, an age-old tradition: The more antisemitic the world gets, the more Jews try to figure out why. Recent headlines have made for many a wrinkled brow: A German parliamentarian calls Jews “a race of perpetrators,” and he’s offered ideological support by a commander of an elite German special-forces army…
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Speak Like a Sailor
Modern Hebrew, as is well known, has had to come up with many new words for concepts and things that did not exist in the language before its late-19th-century spoken revival, or that were themselves 20th-century innovations. There are thousands of such words in Israeli Hebrew today, and dozens more of them continue to enter…
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Tories Rallying Around New Contender
LONDON — British politics just got a lot more interesting. After six years of uncanny good luck, facing only the most lackluster competition, Prime Minister Tony Blair suddenly has a serious opponent — and just at the moment when he has begun to feel vulnerable. Britain’s Conservative Party, in the doldrums since 1997, has anointed…
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Tipping the Balance Through Gerrymandering
How “representative” is our House of Representatives? Hardly at all. And if the Texas legislature’s recent decision on the redistricting of its congressional districts is upheld in the courts, the U.S. legislature will be even less representative than it has been. At present, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, only about 40…
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Newsdesk November 7, 2003
Israel Introduces U.N. Resolution After facing hostile resolutions at the United Nations for a half-century, Israel this week introduced its own resolution in a General Assembly committee, voicing concern for Israeli children living under the threat of Palestinian terrorism. “Until now we were only playing defense; now we are playing offense,” said Ambassador Arye Mekel,…
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Hijacking History, With Few Facts and Fewer Sources
Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines and Rogues Who Created the State of Israel By Zev Golan Devora Publishing, 315 pages, $21.95. * * *| Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement By S. Ilan Troen Yale University Press, 341 pages, $35. * * *| In five or 20 years’ time, I…
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