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Lectures and Discussions Jerusalem on the North Shore: Edward Edelstein, director of Jewish life and learning at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, discusses “Jews and Jerusalem: Roots of Peace, Seeds of Conflict,” a look at the history of Jerusalem, its connection to the Jewish people and its battle scars. Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest…
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Unorthodox Behavior: A blogger going by the nom de guerre “Hasidic Rebel” and an agunah named Chayie Sieger are airing their ultra-Orthodox communities’ dirty laundry in the mainstream media. Sieger’s story of a Bobover chasidic marriage gone bad — real bad — is chronicled in the July 28 issue of New York, a weekly magazine….
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Officials Seek New Probe in Slaying by Cops
New York elected officials are demanding a second investigation into the four-year-old police slaying of a hammer-wielding Orthodox man in Brooklyn. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose district includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn, both Democrats, have mobilized separate efforts calling for a reopening of the investigation and urging Jewish groups…
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BERGER’S BOLD CANVASES
Seven paintings and prints by Boston-born artist David Berger are on view at the inaugural exhibition of Alan Rosenberg — Works of Art, a new Manhattan gallery of 20th-century art and design. Berger’s Expressionist artworks are accompanied by sterling silver hollowware by Allan Adler, Danish ceramics, glass from Finland and Dunbar furniture by Edward Wormley….
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Atheist Crusader Faces Starr in Legal Fight
Michael Arthur Newdow, the man best known for his crusade to remove “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, has a new adversary: former solicitor general and independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Starr is leading a team of lawyers representing Sandra Banning, the mother of Newdow’s daughter. The couple, who never married, is in the middle…
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Camp David Redux: The Reporter As Chronicler and Participant
Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 By Charles Enderlin Other Press, 361 pages, $28. * * *| In the course of six months, between March and September 2000, the most ambitious international effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict collapsed. The effort began in the aftermath of the first…
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State Department Hawk Under Fire in Intelligence Flap Over Syria
The uproar over the administration’s handling of intelligence on Iraq is prompting the intelligence community to try to regain the upper hand over the more hawkish elements in disputes over other “rogue” countries, analysts said. Last week, several media outlets reported that objections from the CIA and other agencies had blocked planned congressional testimony by…
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In the (Female) Mind’s Eye: Regarding Pain
Regarding the Pain of Others By Susan Sontag Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 131 pages, $20. * * *| Lately, we have come to expect war photography as unassailably accurate and objective as the news with which it is featured, as unslanted as its accompanying text. A photographer of the recent war in Iraq was fired…
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Newsdesk July 25, 2003
Feinstein Backs Vouchers Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has come out in favor of experimental school-voucher program being pushed by fellow Democrat, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams. In an opinion article in Tuesday’s Washington Post, Feinstein wrote that although she has never before supported a voucher program and still deeply believes in strengthening America’s public schools,…
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‘Arafat refused –– and all the rest is gossip’
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak recently summed up a three-day-long seminar devoted to the July 2000 Camp David summit with this succinct verdict: “Yasser Arafat refused — and all the rest is gossip.” Most Israelis would agree with Barak’s binary, black-or-white assessment of that ill-fated trilateral summit that led, in short order, to the…
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Lobbyists Quiet Before White House Visits
WASHINGTON — On the eve of back-to-back White House visits by the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, and with pressure mounting for Israeli gestures to strengthen the Palestinian leader, Washington lobbyists for Israel were keeping an uncharacteristically low profile this week. With a handful of exceptions on the right and left, lobbyists for Israel were…
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