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CHILDREN, COME BLOW YOUR HORN
At the eighth annual Shofar Festival and Parade, created for children ages 3 to 8 and their families, youngsters decorate their own shofars, the rams’ horns blown on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur as a call of repentance to its listeners, and learn how to blow them. After listening to stories about Rosh Hashana, visitors…
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Journalist Investigates Rise of Neo-Nazi ‘Little Hitlers’
Several years ago, journalist Elinor Langer was on an airplane preparing for a lecture she was about to give about the death of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant murdered by skinheads in Portland, Ore., in 1989. As Langer began shuffling through pictures and cartoons that the police had seized from the house of one of…
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Sale of Arrow Missile Systems Put on Hold
WASHINGTON — In response to negative reactions from the Bush administration, Israel is putting off attempts to sell the Arrow missile-defense systems to India. Pro-Israel lobbyists have recently raised the issue with senior officials at the State and Defense departments and congressional staffers, according to Jewish activists in Washington, as well as congressional and diplomatic…
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Getting Ready for The High Holy Days Let the Song Be Your Guide: Cantor Janet Leuchter of Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reform synagogue, leads a class titled “What Am I Doing in This Service: Music and Spirit During the Days of Awe.” Participants explore how music and words can serve as a guide on the…
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Lifestyle Magazines Targeted at Young Audiences Find Religion
When you spot your beau in the cafeteria, is he: A) Bullying the class nerd into “sharing” his dessert? B) Starting a food fight? C) Laughing at his table with friends? Or D) Sitting with the lonely new kid? If you answered “D,” you have “a godly guy”— at least in the opinion of Revolve,…
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Greeting Sharon, Indian PM Talks Israel
NEW DELHI — With Prime Minister Sharon this week becoming the first Israeli leader to visit India, a mantra has been chanted back and forth in Jerusalem and New Delhi: “India and Israel — two countries that share challenges and values, the only two democracies in their regions. Both countries face dictatorships that sponsor terror.”…
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In This Week’s Yiddish Forward
• Miriam Hoffman writes about her trip to Vilna via Helsinki. • Elisheva Cohen-Tsedek writes about her impressions of the latest mood in Israel. • Mikhail Krutikov reviews a new collection of essays by Arno Lustiger, a historian and writer living in Germany. • Chaim Beider greets Yekhiel Shraibman, a Bessarabian Yiddish writer, on his…
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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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