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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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Memorial for German Expulsion ‘Victims’ Makes Mockery of Shoah
Many people suffered during World War II, Germans among them. But let there be no mistake: To label as victims the millions of ethnic Germans who were expelled from their homes in Eastern Europe after the defeat of the Nazis is to make a mockery of the Holocaust. Since 2000, an association representing some 2.5…
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Floyd Delaney, Who Embraced Judaism Late in Life, Succumbs at 80
Floyd Delaney, a pioneer in the air-conditioning trade who embraced Judaism in the final years of his life — flying to Israel during the first Gulf War to demonstrate his support for the Jewish state — died on September 2 in Summit, N.J. He was 80. He had been in remission from leukemia and was…
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At the Heart of Two Summer Operas, Romance Gone Bad
Romance gone bad lay at the heart of two operas — each part of a summer festival — one performed in Manhattan, the other upstate at Bard College. The Bard event, the first American staging of Leos Janacek’s “Osud” (“Fate”), and the first offering in Bard’s new SummerScape series, was notable because it inaugurated in…
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Tied Down in Iraq, Washington Lacks Panacea for ‘Map’
WASHINGTON — Faced with escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence and increased attention on its postwar handling of Iraq, the Bush administration appeared paralyzed this week and incapable of rescuing its peacemaking initiative. Administration officials are now focusing on simply stopping the downward spiral of violence and returning to the relative calm that preceded the August 19 bus…
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Israeli Fighter Jets Over Auschwitz Cause Controversy
More than half a century after his grandmother was killed at Auschwitz, Israeli Brigadier General Amir Eshel helped spark an international controversy last week by flying over the adjacent Birkenau death camp in an F-15 fighter jet. Two other Israeli aircraft, also piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors, took part in the fly-over, timed to…
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Israel’s Habimah Theater Finally Arrives Stateside
For its first New York visit in 40 years, the renowned National Theater of Israel, Habimah, will present two fact-based modern dramas involving Jewish children growing up with a parent veering into madness. The main production comprises four evening performances, from September 18 to September 21, of the big-scale “Kaddish L’Naomi,” Habimah’s theatrical adaptation of…
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A Congregation Sings the Blues As Synagogue Goes on Market
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — This Delta town is perhaps most famous for its crossroads, the intersection of Highway 49 and Highway 61, where, according to legend, 1930s bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. Today, about a mile from that notorious site, a different kind of shocking transaction is underway: Like Johnson’s soul, Congregation…
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Charles Liebman Shed Light on Jewish Culture
Charles Liebman, widely regarded as the pre-eminent social scientist of Jews and Judaism in the latter third of the 20th century, died last week in Petah Tikva at age 69. A political scientist by discipline, his dozen books and scores of scholarly articles deftly interpret the culture of Judaism and the Jewish people in the…
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Fox Shares His Cinderella Success Story
Eytan Fox is an intensely private man — so much so that when, during a recent interview in Tel Aviv, he looked up with a start and said, “Hey, next week I’ll be 39. Wow! I didn’t realize it,” it felt like a moment of revelation. Fox, lean and youthful with super-short graying hair and…
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The 52% Fraud
Twelve years after rocking the foundations of Jewish communal life with the revelation that more than half — 52%, to be precise — of American Jews who entered wedlock were marrying out of the faith, the sponsor of the original study has finally acknowledged that the number was, in fact, wrong. In the bland, bureaucratic…
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