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Giving Gifts to Ungrateful Grown-ups Gets Old
How long are relatives expected to give gifts to grown children? I have a nephew, 26, and a niece, 23, to whom I have given gifts on every birthday and major holiday. They have never acknowledged my gifts. What is correct now that they are adults? — Unacknowledged auntie Any obligation you may have felt…
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Restitution Leader Disbarred by Court After Investigation Of Job Misconduct
The former top American professional of an international Holocaust restitution commission has been disbarred. The move comes one year after the official, Neal Sher, former chief of staff in the Washington office of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, was investigated by the commission for allegedly misappropriating funds for personal use. The investigation…
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New French Ambassador’s Remarks Strike Sour Note
PARIS — France’s new ambassador has yet to arrive in Tel Aviv, but already he has succeeded in antagonizing Israel’s political establishment and France’s Jewish community. Gerard Araud was sharing his views on his new posting with Foreign Ministry colleagues last week over crudités and cocktails when he failed to notice an Israeli journalist carefully…
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Modern Times
“Technically, Alice, according to the Torah, it’s not adultery.” Alice yanks her elbow from his hand, walks down the synagogue steps, crosses the street to a park bench, sits. Bob follows, but as he sits beside her, Alice angles her body away. “Alice,” he says, touching her shoulder. She jerks free. “Carol’s Jewish,” he says,…
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A Litvak-less Birthday Bash
Happy 750th birthday, Vilnius, many happy returns of the day, and thanks for letting everyone share it all with you. Thanks for that memorable summer fest, that near-infinite parade glutting your newly refurbished main drag, Gedimino Prospekt (with a nice McDonald’s, complete with walk-through window); thanks for those three-plus hours of good-natured nationalistic/peasant nonsense, the…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
God and Candidate I: It was hard not to miss the military symbolism in Senator John Kerry’s formal announcement of his candidacy for the presidency in front of the USS Yorktown at Mount Pleasant, S.C., Tuesday: kind of like being hit over the head with an aircraft carrier. What struck us about the event, though,…
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SPIRIT INSTALLED
Donna Ruff’s site-specific installation “Nephesh” (Hebrew for “breath,” “spiritual” or “inspiration”) at the Eldridge Street Project is meant to embody the body and spirit of the Jewish religion and its people, Ruff told the Forward. This is reflected through five wooden stands. The stands, Ruff said, represent the Torah’s five books, which united the Jewish…
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Courtside Knishes Come to U.S. Open
The U.S. Open tennis tournament now has a kosher food cart. Hot dogs, pretzels and knishes are among the items available at the cart run by Jeffrey Striks of Strictly Kosher, who also operates kosher food carts at New York Yankees and Mets baseball games, and at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Every evening during…
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Bush Shows Chutzpah in Dealings With the U.N.
The bombing of the United Nations’ headquarters in Iraq opens up a new chapter in the strained relationship between the United States and the U.N. It began with the charge of the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was violating a provision under a U.N. agreement that forbade his (Hussein’s) building weapons of mass destruction. The…
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HIPPIE HIPSTERS’ JAM
Soulfarm, a jam band founded in New York by guitarist and lead singer Noah Solomon Chase and lead guitarist-singer C. Lanzborn, has a guitar-driven sound that melds everything from classic rock to funk, blues and soul. With drummer-singer Mark Ambrosino and bassist Jeff Langston, the band creates a sound that has been compared to the…
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American Web Site Causes Stir Among Israeli Politicians
The most right-wing party in the Israeli government is vowing to sue a Philadelphia-based activist that they say is fraudulently claiming to be its North American representative. At issue is a Web site operated by Philadelphian Arno Weinstein, who identifies himself as the executive director and vice president of American Friends of Israel’s National Union….
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