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Bush Shows Chutzpah in Dealings With the U.N.
The bombing of the United Nations’ headquarters in Iraq opens up a new chapter in the strained relationship between the United States and the U.N. It began with the charge of the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was violating a provision under a U.N. agreement that forbade his (Hussein’s) building weapons of mass destruction. The…
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HIPPIE HIPSTERS’ JAM
Soulfarm, a jam band founded in New York by guitarist and lead singer Noah Solomon Chase and lead guitarist-singer C. Lanzborn, has a guitar-driven sound that melds everything from classic rock to funk, blues and soul. With drummer-singer Mark Ambrosino and bassist Jeff Langston, the band creates a sound that has been compared to the…
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American Web Site Causes Stir Among Israeli Politicians
The most right-wing party in the Israeli government is vowing to sue a Philadelphia-based activist that they say is fraudulently claiming to be its North American representative. At issue is a Web site operated by Philadelphian Arno Weinstein, who identifies himself as the executive director and vice president of American Friends of Israel’s National Union….
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Russian Immigrants Combat Plan To Build Cell Tower
ALBANY, N.Y. — They’re environmentalists, but not exactly the kind you’d see at a Greenpeace rally. The residents of the B’nai B’rith Parkview Apartments in Albany are elderly, and about half of them are immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Stepping out into the front lobby of the apartment complex, one is as likely to…
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September 11 Commemorations ‘Shabbat of Remembrance’: At the Village Temple’s “Shabbat of Remembrance,” composer Danny Ashkenasi discusses his creative response to the events of September 11, 2001, culminating in his composition “The Book of Job,” weaving biblical text with accounts of the experiences of New Yorkers. After performing featured selections at the Reform services, the…
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A Vast Anti-Arab Conspiracy: The same right-wing forces that tried to scuttle Bill Clinton’s presidency have found a new target: Arabs. Or so argues leading Arab-American activist James Zogby in the August 18 Gulf News. Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute, writes of an “organised multi-pronged effort targeting a variety of Arab leaders, institutions and…
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Jungle Fever, Minus the Heat
One of the great ironies of cultural criticism is that bad movies can illuminate important ideas or historical trends. Indeed, bad movies may even be better at doing this than good movies because good movies are more likely to seduce us into their world, leaving us less imaginative room outside of themselves in which to…
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CLOSE-UPS FROM THE DIASPORA
“Lost Futures: Journeys into the Jewish Diaspora” is an exhibition of photographs by Chrystie Sherman. Some 25 images document her recent travels to once-thriving Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, India, Cuba and North Africa. The stories of these communities’ struggles to survive in the face of poverty, discrimination and emigration are…
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Painting a Portrait of the Artist During the Third Reich
In May 2002, while some Jewish activists were inciting Hollywood regulars to boycott the Cannes Film Festival as a protest against a wave of antisemitism in France, screenwriter and playwright Ronald Harwood was attending the world’s most celebrated film festival for his movie’s premiere. “This is the perfect time for a film on the Holocaust,”…
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Whither Saudi Arabia?
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’Ud from Tradition to Terror By Stephen Schwartz Doubleday, 336 pages, $25. * * *| Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude By Robert Baer Crown, 256 pages, $24.95. * * *| Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism…
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Newsdesk September 5, 2003
Crash Victims Plan Suit Relatives of passengers on the Libyan jetliner shot down by Israeli fighters in 1973 say they intend to demand financial compensation from Israel equivalent to the sums Libya has agreed to pay the families of the Lockerbie disaster, according to an Egyptian report quoted in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. The…
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