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A Congregation Sings the Blues As Synagogue Goes on Market
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — This Delta town is perhaps most famous for its crossroads, the intersection of Highway 49 and Highway 61, where, according to legend, 1930s bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. Today, about a mile from that notorious site, a different kind of shocking transaction is underway: Like Johnson’s soul, Congregation…
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Charles Liebman Shed Light on Jewish Culture
Charles Liebman, widely regarded as the pre-eminent social scientist of Jews and Judaism in the latter third of the 20th century, died last week in Petah Tikva at age 69. A political scientist by discipline, his dozen books and scores of scholarly articles deftly interpret the culture of Judaism and the Jewish people in the…
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Fox Shares His Cinderella Success Story
Eytan Fox is an intensely private man — so much so that when, during a recent interview in Tel Aviv, he looked up with a start and said, “Hey, next week I’ll be 39. Wow! I didn’t realize it,” it felt like a moment of revelation. Fox, lean and youthful with super-short graying hair and…
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The 52% Fraud
Twelve years after rocking the foundations of Jewish communal life with the revelation that more than half — 52%, to be precise — of American Jews who entered wedlock were marrying out of the faith, the sponsor of the original study has finally acknowledged that the number was, in fact, wrong. In the bland, bureaucratic…
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‘Conservatory With a Heart’ Embroiled in Union Dispute
The Lucy Moses School bills itself as “The Conservatory With a Heart,“ but some teachers at the arts school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side say the institution has had little sympathy for their efforts to unionize. Dozens of teachers at the school voted to join Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians in an…
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Could This Be Kosher HOG Heaven?
Jay Rubin straddled his Harley, checked the mezuza on the fuselage and rode the 800 miles from his Falls Church, Va., home to Milwaukee, scene of the Harley-Davidson Motor Co.’s centennial celebration over the Labor Day weekend. Rubin joined 200,000 riders for five days of concerts, bar-hopping and ear-splitting excursions around town. But as the…
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Bombings Rock Israel, Leave Uncertain Future For Arafat’s Authority
JERUSALEM — In the wake of this week’s deadly terrorist attacks, pressure is mounting within Israel’s political and defense establishment for an all-out onslaught against both Hamas and Yasser Arafat, possibly ending the road map process and toppling the Palestinian Authority altogether. The United States and the European Union were working at midweek to restrain…
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Layoff of Veteran Leader in L.A. Sparks Talk of a Split in Federation
Los Angeles’s Jewish federation’s sudden move to lay off the top professional of its public-affairs division, the Jewish Community Relations Committee, has sparked outrage and talk of a committee secession from the federation. Citing budget woes, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles eliminated the executive director position of the Jewish Community Relations Committee last…
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Re: Please Stop E-Mailing Me Your Intimate Secrets
I have a friend who e-mails me daily. The e-mails go on for pages and pages, filling me in on the most intimate and the most mundane details of his daily life. It’s not as easy as just changing my phone number. What do I do? — Inbox overload Return to sender? Change your e-mail…
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Young Players Step Up to the Plate at Yiddish Week
How do you say “home run” in Yiddish? Just ask the dozens of generation X- and Y-ers who were on the field for a hilke-pilke (softball) game during the annual Yidish-Vokh (Yiddish Week), from August 20 to August 26. Max Kellerman, 30, the boxing analyst and host of ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” took several days…
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Lastman Out: Toronto’s Motormouth Mayor Stands Down
TORONTO — Canada’s largest city is witnessing the end of a political era: Mayor Mel Lastman, a Jewish millionaire businessman who has spent the past 30 years as an unbeatable municipal official in the Toronto area, will be missing from the ballot in November. Lastman, 70, is ailing from hepatitis C treatments and will not…
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