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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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The Liberal Case for Palestine: “The loss of Professor Edward Said,” Christopher Hitchens eulogizes in a September 26 posting to Slate.com, “will be unbearable for his family, insupportable to his immense circle of friends, upsetting to a vast periphery of admirers and readers who one might almost term his diaspora, and depressing to all those…
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Goats to the Slaughter
‘And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat…. And the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat unto…
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Newsdesk October 3, 2003
Arab Leader Praised Bombing A top American Muslim leader who was charged this week for illegally obtaining money from Libya and financing terrorism in the United States and abroad once hailed the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Argentina, according to the court testimony of a federal agent. “The Jewish community center, it…
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PSALM 151
In recent years, the traditional custom of tashlich has gained currency in the Jewish New Year. In the ceremony, we toss bread into the water — symbolic of our griefs and grievances — and it’s fun to imagine this bread being tossed in odd corners of the country, from the muddy waters of the Mississippi…
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Fringe Movement: A Biblical Blue Makes a Comeback
The color purple – well, something related to it – is making a comeback, but its significance goes far beyond the favor of frum fashionistas. A newly recovered biblical process of extracting the purplish blue dye from a Mediterranean mollusk is changing the way the commandment to wear tzitzit — the ritual fringes worn on…
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Survivors Sue Commission
WASHINGTON — An international commission charged with resolving Holocaust-era insurance claims is coming under attack from California politicians and segments of the Jewish community. Holocaust survivors are suing the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims over allegedly delayed payments. The suit has been joined by the California state insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, a member…
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Fishing for Life’s Big Lessons in the Book of Jonah
As Yom Kippur draws to a close, we read the deceptively simple book of Jonah. Three themes tie this all-too-relevant story together: the emptiness of self-absorption, the possibility that those who have disappointed us can change and the ultimate reality of interdependence. THE EMPTINESS OF SELF-ABSORPTION Why does Jonah flee when called to prophesy against…
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Labor’s Spiral Into Despair
In recent weeks, major American unions in heavy industry — like auto, steel, communications, etc. — have been behaving in a nontraditional fashion. Instead of demanding wage increases, they are accepting wage freezes. Instead of insisting that plant closings by mammoth corporations be a no-no, they have agreed to such closings although that has meant…
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In the Margins: Imagining a ‘Book of Lives’
I have always loved books. By the time I was 16 months old I had learned to name the letters of the alphabet from “Sesame Street.” By the time I was 3, my parents had instituted the Shabbat Book Program to satisfy my voracious appetite for books: Every Saturday morning I — and later my…
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