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Spanish Literati Go Loco For All Things Jewish
MADRID — At Madrid’s annual weeklong book fair this summer, a growing affection among literati for all things Jewish finally burst out of the gate. An entire day of programming was devoted to “the Jewish book,” participants were treated to an exhibit on the history of Madrid’s Jewish community and “Shalom” was the standard greeting…
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The Do-It-Yourself Ethos of ‘I Do’
Michael Endelman’s parents couldn’t quite recall their wedding canopy; a cursory look at wedding photos illuminated a beige cloth adorned with “some kind of greenery” and daisies. Like most standard-issue chupahs, it was pretty — and unremarkable. But when Endelman, 27, marries later this month in Marin County, Calif., he’ll stand beneath an eye-popping quilt…
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A Palimpsest of Literature and Politics
Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 By Mikhail Krutikov Stanford University Press, 248 pages, $55. * * *| Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish Edited by Mikhail Krutikov and Gennady Estraikh Legenda, 330 pages, $49.50. * * *| In a small ceremony held in 1901…
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Arrest of Settlers On Terror Charges Inflames Hebron
JERUSALEM — A pair of Jewish settlers from Hebron, arrested on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist cell, remain behind bars this week following legal maneuvers that have pitted many hard-line settlers against Ariel Sharon’s government. Yitzhak Pass — father of Shalhevet Pass, the 10-month-old killed by a sniper’s bullet in Hebron on March 26,…
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A Nude Who Inspired Modesty
‘Adam Abu-Diyab is breathing hard through his mouth as he wheels his adult-size tricycle up Me’ah She’arim’s main drag,” writes correspondent Mitchell Ginsburg in the July 14 Jerusalem Report. “His bike is ancient and his trailer is weighted with the tools of his trade. There’s a broom, a roller, a bucket of glue and a…
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House Takes Aim at Judiciary on Church-State Cases
WASHINGTON — There was a moment during his appearance with President Bush on the White House lawn last Tuesday when Prime Minister Sharon seemed to reveal more than he intended of his inner state of mind right now. Working through his prepared remarks, Sharon briefly fumbled with pages that appeared to be stuck together. Bush…
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PSALM 151
It’s nice to remember the houses floating on water. It’s nice to stand on the shore and sing a hymn of praise while the candles burn in the windows. It’s nice to dream the loaves rising in the ovens and the floors dusted with flour, the women with the beautiful hair falling like cities into…
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Dems Call Bush Soft on Saudis But Split on His Israel Stance
Seizing on what they see as a rare opportunity to attack President Bush’s foreign policy without appearing unpatriotic, Democrats and liberals are rushing to condemn the White House for its stance on Saudi Arabia — and in some cases, on the Middle East peace process. The attacks are opening up a rift within the liberal…
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Now More Than Ever!
The medical supply unit at a large Israeli army base near Tel Aviv turns out to be a nondescript collection of warehouses with corrugated roofing, stacked inside with cardboard boxes. It’s just about the last place one might expect to find an American teenager having the time of her life. But in a workroom sorting…
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Moscow Targets Another Russian Jewish Oligarch
MOSCOW — It’s becoming a familiar scenario: Kremlin prosecutors go after a prominent Jewish “oligarch,” and Washington reacts with stern warnings that Russia is risking all the progress it has made during the last decade. Just under three years ago, the target was Vladimir Gusinsky, the press baron and founding president of the Russian Jewish…
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What’s in a Baby’s Name? Parents’ Hopes and Dreams
No one who’s ever pondered naming a child believes that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. If Josie were named Feygie or Jemima — well, to be honest, I could no more imagine her being named Feygie or Jemima than I could imagine her fox hunting with Princess Anne. A few…
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