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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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Beyond Mexicanidad: The Other Roots of Frida Kahlo’s Identity
In 1932, Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera were dining with other guests at the Detroit home of Henry Ford, the automotive titan and noted antisemite. (The city had commissioned Rivera to paint a series of murals devoted to the theme of modern industry.) During a lull in conversation, with a characteristic mixture of…
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Weaving the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy Into its Rightful Place
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America By David Von Drehle Atlantic Monthly Press, 340 pages, $26. * * *| March 25, 1911, became a Sabbath like no other. Scores of young immigrant Jewish women who couldn’t afford a day of rest went to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a newfangled high-rise factory on the…
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STORIES OF SURVIVAL AMONG THE SHADOWS
David Tennenbaum survived the Holocaust by pretending to be a Christian, mentally disabled girl. His family’s non-Jewish friend issued false identity papers for him and found him and his mother a secure hiding place in the Polish town of Zimna Woda. The family’s friends recommended that he pose as a mentally disabled girl so that…
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Vatican Distances Itself From Praise Of Gibson’s Movie
The Vatican is distancing itself from the comments of two Catholic officials who recently praised the controversial Mel Gibson movie “The Passion.” In a letter sent to the Anti-Defamation League, Cardinal Walter Kasper, the top Vatican liaison to the Jewish community, said that any endorsements of the film from top church leaders represented “purely personal”…
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Upping Yor Ante
This being the week of Rosh Hashana, I took advantage of the occasion to ask the Israeli scholar Shmuel Gelbart, an expert on Jewish custom and Yiddish usage, a question that has been bothering me. Why is Yiddish the only language in the world whose speakers make a practice of wishing each other a good…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Dean Defense: In his latest attempt to mend fences after the dustup over his comment that the United States “ought not to take sides” in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Howard Dean is trying to assuage the ire of Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman. In an interview with the Associated Press, Foxman described Dean’s remark, recorded…
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J’Accuse
J’Accuse By Aharon Shabtai New Directions, 64 pages, $14.95. * * *| In “J’Accuse,” whose title is taken from Emile Zola’s famed letter against the French government during the Dreyfus Affair, Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai accuses his society of brutally oppressing the Palestinians. In the title poem, Shabtai refers to Mohammed al-Dura, photos of whose…
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Democratic Council Rebuilds New York Chapter
Just in time for the Democratic presidential primaries, a Jewish Democratic group is rebuilding its presence in New York. The National Jewish Democratic Council, founded in 1990 as “the national voice of Jewish Democrats,” has hired fundraiser Jill Straus to spearhead its revived New York chapter. Straus will reach out to donors, candidates, officials, community…
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Remembering the Woman
Small Change: A Collection of Stories By Yehudit Hendel Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 142 pages, $19.95. * * *| Yehudit Hendel is being rediscovered. Hendel, born in 1926, first established herself as a major Israeli author in the 1950s, a time when very few female Hebrew prose writers gained wide recognition,…
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Suit To Press Bush on Jerusalem’s Status
A New Yorker living in Israel filed a law suit this past week against the Bush administration in an effort to press it to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Ari Zivotofsky claims in the suit that the State Department broke the law when it refused to list Israel as the place of birth…
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