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Disturbed by Being Disingenuous
This is the time of year when I ask forgiveness of my family and friends for anything I might have done in the past that was hurtful to them and when I focus on forgiving others for hurts they have inflicted on me. A few months ago I had a falling out with a friend,…
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Report Finds Flaws in Population Survey
A recently released review by leading survey researchers has pointed to holes in the methodology of the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-2001 that could have led to an undercount of the Jewish population. The review comes as emotions over the controversial population survey conducted by United Jewish Communities are reaching a fever pitch, with much…
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Squelching Your Sense of Justice and Decency
First Day of Rosh Hashana: Genesis 21:1–34; Numbers 29:1–6; Second Day: Genesis 22:1–24, Numbers 29:1–6. * * *| ‘Pray take your son, your only-one, whom you love, Isaac, and go forth to the land of Moriah, and bring him up there as a sacrifice…” (Genesis 22:2). This bone-chilling scene opener might seem more apt in…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hello, Goodbye: Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is welcoming retired general Wesley Clark into the Democratic presidential race even as he is insisting that in at least one way, former Vermont governor Howard Dean is outside the Democratic Party. During a conference call September 19 with reporters from Jewish publications, a relaxed-sounding Lieberman had kind words…
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Sharansky Faces Dessert Storm
Abe Greenhouse did not, at first, admit to throwing a pie at Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky. “But I will admit to shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Pie!’” Greenhouse told the Forward. Sharansky, an activist for Soviet Jewry’s right to immigrate to Israel who spent nine years languishing in Soviet prisons before he…
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Simcha Dinitz, 74, Former Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and past chairman of the Jewish Agency, has died. Dinitz, 74, died Tuesday of a heart attack in Jerusalem. Born in Tel Aviv, Dinitz joined the Haganah in pre-state Palestine and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the War of Independence. He spent 37…
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Saying Thanks to the Behind-the-Scenes Bridge-Builders
Wearing his New York City Fire Department chaplain’s uniform, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, president of the New York Board or Rabbis, delivered the invocation at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York “Rebuilders of New York” September 9 dinner. JCRC officer and dinner co-chair Sally Goodgold offered the ha’motzi. Among the 300 guests at the…
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The Fictionalized Babel: Twisting a Novelist’s Life Into Novelistic Shape
King of Odessa: A Novel By Robert A. Rosenstone Northwestern University Press, 256 pages, $24.95. * * *| The great Soviet writer Isaac Babel is renowned less for his work than for his status as a symbol of the brutality of the Communist regime. Justly famed for his short story collection, “Red Cavalry,” and his…
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THE FEMININE SIDE OF A JAZZMAN’S SOUL
Israeli-born jazz bassist, pianist, composer and arranger Avishai Cohen performs songs from his recently released album, “Lyla,” his fifth and the first on his new label, Razdaz Recordz. The 11-song collection features Cohen’s International Vamp Band on rhythmically charged tracks, drummer and electronics specialist Mark Guiliana on pop/rock-oriented numbers and vocalists Lola and Jeff Taylor,…
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A New Architecture for a New Kind of Jew
American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community By Samuel Gruber Photography by Paul Rocheleau Edited by Scott J. Tilden Rizzoli International Publications, 240 pages, $50. * * *| For Rachel Wischnitzer’s 1955 book “Synagogue Architecture in the United States: History and Interpretation,” the first and last great survey of the subject, architect Philip…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
High Holy Days CyberServices: The High Holy Day services of Temple Emanu-El of the City of New York, a Reform congregation, are to be broadcast on the radio (WQXR-FM or 96.3 FM) as well as the Internet (www.emanuelnyc.org) for those who cannot attend services in person. Rosh Hashana Sept. 26, 5:30 p.m., Yom Kippur, Oct….
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