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Dance Troupe From Israel Wraps Up Goodwill Tour of America (Correction)
An August 22 article, “Dance Troupe From Israel Wraps Up Goodwill Tour of America,” misidentified Toni Luck, managing director of the Spirit of David Dance Theater. Ben Ammi Ben Israel is the spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelite Community. The article also incorrectly reported the source of funding for the tour. The Nation of…
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Trial of Bombing Suspects Faces Failure
BUENOS AIRES — While the international angle of the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center here received an unexpected boost with the arrest in Britain of Iran’s former ambassador to Argentina, the trial of Argentineans accused of abetting the attack may be heading toward failure, observers said. A court is expected…
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A COMPASSIONATE EYE ON NEW YORK CITY
Alexander Kruse painted portraits of the neighborhoods in which he lived, beginning with Manhattan’s Lower East Side and continuing with Coney Island, Fire Island and Pawling, N.Y. Some 36 of his paintings, drawings and prints are now on view in “Alexander Kruse (1888-1972)” at the Educational Alliance, where the artist studied from 1900 to 1904…
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Subcontinental Philosophy: While Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was being diplomatically correct ahead of Prime Minister Sharon’s watershed visit to New Delhi this week, the country’s paper of record was offering up nothing less than a mea culpa for India’s long-standing pro-Palestinian position. “As far as India is concerned, our ‘traditional’ support to…
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The Elements of Style
Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953 Edited by James Wood Library of America, 1029 pages, $35. * * *| ‘The Dangling Man,” Saul Bellow’s first novel, published in 1944, begins with a man in a room. Demoralized, rooted in his chair, he feels it necessary to keep a journal. In it, he bemoans his solitude. But readers…
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Consumers Are Spending Money They Do Not Have
When The Great Depression hit the United States in 1929, then-president Herbert Hoover decided to do something about it. He decided to lift the spirits of the American people. As he put it, “Prosperity is right around the corner.” Theoretically, this seemed to make sense. If the people were depressed and worried about where the…
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Now Eligible for Medicare, Augie March Still Longs To Entertain
The Adventures of Augie March, 50th Anniversary Edition By Saul Bellow Viking, 586 pages, $29.95. * * *| It has been 50 years since Augie March, Saul Bellow’s thickly textured, picaresque protagonist, first declared that he was “going everywhere!” and moreover that he intended to travel in style. After all, he was “an American, Chicago…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Republican Rise: Among the interesting data released in the Voter News Service’s long-delayed 2002 election exit-polling report were statistics noting a rise of Republican voting among Jews. The VNS, controlled by a consortium of news organizations, collapsed last year because of technical problems, but enough of its report was salvageable to provide some credible data…
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The Buzaglo Test
As scandal swirls around the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and some political commentators wonder why he isn’t held more strictly to accounts while others protest that he has been tarnished unfairly, almost everyone in Israel agrees that he should be subject to the Buzaglo Test. The Buzaglo Test, the conventional wisdom holds, needs…
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Pro-Nazi Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, 101, Dies
Leni Riefenstahl always insisted that the two most famous films she directed, “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia,” were nothing more than straight-forward documentaries. Others have argued that they were nothing more than Nazi propaganda. What’s indisputable is that the controversy over Riefenstahl, who died this week at the age of 101, will forever supersede…
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A Short Story Collection Suffused With Jewish Lore and Driven by Unforgettable Characters
An Hour in Paradise: Stories By Joan Leegant Norton, 223 pages, $23.95. * * *| People imagine that as a book critic I read so much that there must be dozens of books I enjoy each year. But the truth is, books about which I am totally enthusiastic appear only every few years. Joan Leegant’s…
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