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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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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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Thanks — But No Thanks: A Public-Service Message
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so my thoughts turn to things I am grateful for, before I begin obsessing almost immediately about things I resent and loathe. Because I am just that kind of person. Last year I wrote a story about great gifts for new moms. This year, as a public service, I…
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Work Begins on Ukraine Holocaust Memorial
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — On a frosty evening last week, 1,200 people gathered around an empty lot on Gogol Street in this former military-industrial city for what some observers said was a long-overdue dedication. Shivering Holocaust scholars, local businessmen and boldface names from Israeli politics and society — including Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs…
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AEPi Overflows With Brotherly Love
It could have been any Saturday night fraternity homecoming party — almost. Rutgers University’s football team had lost to Pittsburgh that October afternoon, but the students were still in a celebratory mood in New Brunswick, N.J. There was dancing, and booze was being swilled from large red-plastic cups. To the uninitiated, the only thing that…
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In Argentine Poverty War, an Uphill Fight
BUENOS AIRES — Tamara Potaz always thought the first important decisions of her young life would come when she had to choose between becoming a violinist, a luthier or a sound engineer. Her parents had good jobs, the family lived in a large apartment, teenage life in bustling Buenos Aires was fun and Potaz figured…
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Alienated by Atheists’ Anger About Bar Mitzvah
Should I go behind my 72-year-old mother’s back and tip her doormen? She has lived in the same building for the past 20 years. She gives each doorman $10 for the holidays. Period. Should I slip the doormen something extra when I visit her, and, if so, how much would be appropriate? — At the…
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Gun Control Ad Highlights Jews on NRA ‘Blacklist’
In their latest campaign against the National Rifle Association, gun-control groups are highlighting the names of Jewish organizations and individuals found on an NRA-compiled “blacklist,” in what observers say is an effort to spur one of the gun-control lobby’s key constituencies to action. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence-Million Mom March bought advertisements in…
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A (Mechanical) Stitch in Time
Just the other day, Levi Strauss, the maker of one of America’s most representative products — blue jeans — announced that it was closing the last of its North American manufacturing plants and transferring all of its operations overseas. The company’s announcement marked a sad day for its thousands of employees and for history as…
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High-Stakes Drama in Israel Pits Top Cop Against Attorney General
JERUSALEM — It is a showdown worthy of a Hollywood script, where “The Sopranos” meets “Law and Order” deep inside “The West Wing.” It is a confrontation that is shaking Israel’s law-enforcement apparatus to the core and rocking its political establishment. It is depicted on both emotional sides as a fateful battle between good and…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Sunshine State Scramble: Rep. Peter Deutsch, a Jewish Democrat from south Florida, has emerged as the best-financed of the several contenders vying to replace Senator Bob Graham, who declared this week that he would not run for re-election in 2004. Deutsch, whose district stretches from Broward County south to Key West, has some $3 million…
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