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Tales From the Blogosphere: On October 17, the Anti-Defamation League charged The New Republic senior editor Gregg Easterbrook with “either absolute ignorance or total bigotry” for writing in his Web log that “Jewish executives” in Hollywood “worship money above all else.” Three days, two editorial apologies and one lost job later, the ADL considered the…
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Death and Disaster in Georgia
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank By Steve Oney Pantheon Books, 742 pages, $35. * * *| On August 16, 1915, Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman from the North who had been living and working in Atlanta, was snatched from a jail cell by 25…
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Newsdesk October 31, 2003
Senate Moves Against Malaysia The U.S. Senate made military aid to Malaysia conditional on religious freedom, including greater tolerance of Jews. On Monday, the Senate passed an amendment to its foreign-aid spending bill that would require a State Department determination of religious freedom and tolerance in Malaysia before the country could receive a planned $1.2…
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Arnold ‘The Brain’
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series By David Pietrusza Carroll & Graf Publishers, 496 pages, $27. * * *| Abraham Rothstein raised his family in Manhattan in the late 1800s. A Sabbath-observant Jew, he was a successful businessman known as “Abe the Just.” One of…
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Dogmatists and Pragmatists
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz was credited this week by The New York Times as being the “intellectual architect of the plan to oust [Saddam] Hussein.” The occasion for mentioning him was his recent trip to Iraq to get a firsthand sense of what was happening there. While there is no doubt that he…
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A Yiddish Song-and-Dance Man Sings His Own Story
What a Life! The Autobiography of Pesach’ke Burstein, Yiddish Matinee Idol By Pesach’ke Burstein with Lillian Lux Burstein Syracuse University Press, 224 pages, $34.95. * * *| Pesach “Pesach’ke” Burstein, the popular Yiddish song-and-dance man, set out to tell his own personal story. On that level, “What a Life! The Autobiography of Pesach’ke Burstein, Yiddish…
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Bush Keeping Slots Open for Resettlement of Refugees
The Bush administration announced last week that it will leave the door open for the resettlement of as many as 70,000 refugees in the United States over the next year, allaying fears of refugee advocates that the resettlement program was on the brink of demise after years of declining admissions. Since the September 11 terrorist…
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A Real Metsiya!
The Forward’s features editor, Erica Brody, tells me she knows a dedicated subscriber whose Yiddish-speaking family had a “hullabaloo” about the word metsiya. What precisely this “hullabaloo” was about I don’t know, but I can imagine. How many words are there that also mean their opposite and can be confused with their homonym in the…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Unreliable Survey?: A Jewish Democratic group is challenging a recently reported finding that 35% of Jewish voters cast their ballots for Republicans in last November’s midterm election. The statistic comes from exit polls conducted by the Voter News Service in 2002; the release of those polls’ findings was delayed for nearly a year because of…
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Illuminating the Calendar’s Joys, From Nisan to Adar
Ilene Cooper knows children’s books. As the children’s book editor at Booklist — the review journal of the American Library Association — her eyes graze the roughly 5,000 colorful mini-tomes that cross her desk each year as their writers gnaw their nails, hoping for positive reviews. Cooper empathizes: She’s an author herself, with more than…
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Bush Drops Opposition To Building Of Barrier
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has abandoned its opposition to Israel’s construction of a security fence in the West Bank, easing a major point of tension between Washington and Jerusalem in recent months, according to pro-Israel activists in Washington, Palestinian diplomats and sources close to the Bush administration. Until this summer, the administration had vocally…
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