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Congress Pushing Bush on Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON — The White House is standing by Saudi Arabia, even as congressional pressure mounts on the Bush administration to confront Riyadh’s alleged funding of Hamas. Congressmen from both parties are demanding that the administration pressure the Saudi government into enforcing a decree issued by Crown Prince Abdullah more than a year ago ordering the…
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Israel’s Richest Woman Packs Her Bags
JERUSALEM – With an estimated worth of $2.4 billion, Shari Arison is the richest woman, and perhaps the richest citizen, in Israel. Or, rather, she was. Arison, a banking and corporate executive who ranked 158th on this year’s Forbes list of richest people in the world, is not suddenly facing poverty. She is no longer…
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Stymied Administration Slams Both Sides
WASHINGTON — Stymied by the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic deadlock and seemingly unwilling to risk its shrinking political capital, the Bush administration issued a round of contradictory, top-level messages this week that left observers convinced it was merely trying to buy time while appearing engaged. The apparent confusion reached its height on Monday, when President Bush told…
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What It Feels Like for a Boy
Sadness mixed with an audible sigh of relief in the reviews of Woody Allen’s latest film, “Anything Else.” While most critics agreed that this new romantic comedy — featuring “American Pie” star Jason Biggs in the traditional Woody Allen role — was nowhere near as disastrous as “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” or “Hollywood…
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South African-born Jewish dancer Sadie Rigal led a double life during World War II in Paris, performing for German officers at night in music halls and working for the resistance by day. Now 86 and known as Florence Waren, the former dancer’s son, Mark Waren, has made three documentaries based on his mother’s stories about…
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Author Battling Antisemitism at the Ice Rink
In March 2002, Israeli ice dancers Sergei Sakhnovsky and Galit Chait won a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan, edging out a Lithuanian pair who finished in fourth place. Within days, a petition was circulating among skaters and judges saying that the Israelis’ medal was “not justified.” “How much did…
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Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together
A few minutes shy of 8 o’clock on a sticky August morning, a stylish restaurant in midtown Manhattan barely hummed, its normally alert staff still blinking back sleep. Suddenly the door swung open, blown back, it seemed, by some freakish wintry gale. But no mere force of nature disrupted the early-morning calm. It was French…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Sukkot Hoof It Up: Rikuday Dor Rishon, an Israeli folk dance company, has an Israeli Folk Dance Sukkot Party and Marathon in which participants learn dances to songs about Sukkot and then demonstrate their steps in an open dance session. Refreshments celebrating the harvest festival are served. Bridge for Dance, 2726 Broadway; Oct. 12, class…
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At a Ripe Age, Eli Wallach Plays Juicy Jewish Roles
Round-faced and sunburned, with wild, kinky hair and a Mexican accent, Eli Wallach was in an utter rage at the end of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Clint Eastwood’s character had nearly killed him, and as Eastwood trotted away on a horse, Wallach chased after him, bellowing curses. It has been 36 years…
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Death Is Celebrated and Life Means Less Than Nothing
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century By Walter Laqueur Continuum, 288 pages, $24.95. * * *| Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power In a Violent World By Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, 240 pages, $23. * * *| Terror and Liberalism By Paul Berman W.W. Norton & Company, 214…
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SHIP’S STORY RESURFACES
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici tells the story of the sinking of The Struma, a dilapidated ship carrying nearly 800 Jews from Romania to Palestine via Turkey during World War II, in “The Struma” (2001), which makes its television debut on HBO2. The vessel left Constanza, Romania, in December 1941 and, suffering engine failure, barely…
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