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Former Congresswoman Becomes Darling of the Left
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A year ago Cynthia McKinney’s political stock hit rock bottom. The five-term Democratic congresswoman from Georgia suffered an embarrassing primary loss — never having recovered from her suggestion that the Bush administration had ignored warnings about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But since McKinney’s August 2002 defeat — which some…
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Out of Formation: A Comedy
Dusk crept into a midtown Manhattan diner earlier this month as Jennifer Jiles presented a reporter with an impromptu performance of the opening act of her one-woman comedy, “Kicking & Screaming,” culled from the four years she spent as a Rockette. During her show, being performed October 29 and throughout November at the Workshop Theater…
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Legislators Split Over Funding for Iraq, Afghanistan
Jewish Democrats in Congress were deeply divided by President Bush’s call for $87 billion in emergency funding for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Emergency supplementary appropriation bills for Iraq and Afghanistan passed the House of Representatives October 17 by a vote of 303-125 and the Senate the same day by a margin…
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Life in the Kickline: A Rockette’s Story
As the days grow shorter, a California native and observant Jew named Rhonda Kaufman Malkin has been spending her evenings up to her eyeballs in ear-high kicks. But it’s not for Sukkot that she’s been hoofing it up, it’s her job — and her passion. Malkin, 25, is a Rockette, and audiences who missed her…
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Bosnian Leader Championed Religious Pluralism
Alija Izetbegovic, the courtly, avuncular former leader of the Muslim-led Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, died October 19 in Sarajevo, at age 78. His health had been deteriorating in recent weeks, a result of heart disease, and his end was hastened by a bad fall, in which he broke several ribs. Izetbegovic became a global…
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Two Oases in a Dreary Kosher Desert
‘God! The restaurants!” exclaims one of the characters in John Guare’s echt-Manhattan play “Six Degrees of Separation.” “New York has become the Florence of the 16th century. Genius on every corner.” The line is hyperbolic, but not by much. In the past two decades New York has become the greatest restaurant city in the world,…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Lieberman Defections: A number of fundraisers are joining the exodus of staffers from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s presidential campaign. Fundraisers Jaclyn Brot of his New York operation and Chad Fitzgerald and Colleen McCarthy of his Washington-area operation have left, campaign spokesman Jano Cabrera confirmed. Cabrera suggested the campaign was streamlining. “As the campaign season begins…
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Hayworth Gala Pays Respects to Alzheimer’s Victims
The décolletages were jaw-dropping and the masks astonishing at the October 7 “Magic of Mardi Gras” Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth gala. Chaired by Muffie Potter Aston, the gala was established 18 years ago by Princess Yasmin Aga Khan in memory of her mother, Rita Hayworth, who died of Alzheimer’s. To date the galas have (cumulatively)…
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Moms’ Plight Spurs Action By Agencies
Three years ago, Cathy Markowitz had it all together. A house in a Long Island suburb, an accountant husband and a steady day job at a doctor’s office that gave her plenty of time to spend with her three young sons. Then her husband had a serious stroke. In the weeks that followed, Markowitz said…
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Cheers, Jeers Greet Democratic Contenders
Lieberman Defections: A number of fundraisers are joining the exodus of staffers from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s presidential campaign. Fundraisers Jaclyn Brot of his New York operation and Chad Fitzgerald and Colleen McCarthy of his Washington-area operation have left, campaign spokesman Jano Cabrera confirmed. Cabrera suggested the campaign was streamlining. “As the campaign season begins…
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Fringe Voices Ricochet Coast to Coast
Adam Davis was frustrated with the Jewish singles scene in Chicago. Gatherings organized by the Windy City’s local federation and Hillels were either too pricey or populated by the same circuit of clean-cut urban professionals taking reckless advantage of the events’ only entertainment — an open bar. “You’d see the same faces every time,” Davis…
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