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Democratic Council Moves On Web Site’s Mideast Bulletin
A Jewish Democratic group is seeking to remove what it considers “unbalanced” material from the Web site of a group it is calling “an important and influential progressive organization.” The National Jewish Democratic Council is asking its members to contact MoveOn.org, a grassroots left-liberal organization that uses the Internet to build electronic advocacy groups, about…
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Jewish, Muslim Groups Find Common Ground in Toronto
TORONTO — In an effort to improve relations between Muslims and Jews, Canada’s Pakistani community has created a journalism scholarship in memory of Daniel Pearl, the Jewish reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was murdered by Muslim extremists in Pakistan last year. It is the latest in a series of moves by Muslim and…
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How Celia Cruz Saved an Amazon Night
I came of age at just the right time to enjoy Celia Cruz — the greatest female singer salsa has ever produced — in her prime, and for her to help shape my lifelong musical tastes. Without her knowing it, she once helped get me out of a frightening situation in a drug-saturated Peruvian river…
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Fabled Mill Owner Works To Manufacture a Miracle
LAWRENCE, Mass. — Fortune almost smiled last month on Malden Mills, a textile company that’s all too familiar with misfortune. A group of longtime accountants and administrators working for the clothing manufacturer had purchased a lottery ticket, hoping to win the $180 million jackpot, buy their bankrupt company back from its creditors and return it…
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Education Funds Approved
The main processing agency for Holocaust-era reparations payments voted this week to continue its policy of allocating some restitution money toward Holocaust education, turning down calls to divert all the funds toward needy survivors. The 57-member board of directors of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany voted unanimously Tuesday to continue spending 20%…
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An End to Blood Feuds?
This Sabbath we announce the coming of Av, the month about which the Mishna teaches: “When Av begins, diminish joy.” Given the sorry litany of events that befell the Jewish people during this month, it’s no wonder that the Mishna counsels against rejoicing. The Mishna lists five tragic events that took place on the 9th…
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‘Sites of Conscience’ Get Boost From Libeskind, Parley
A little-known coalition of museums is poised to get a big boost this week, with an unprecedented international conference and an unexpected appearance by star architect Daniel Libeskind. Since its founding four years ago, the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience has received little attention. This week, however, the coalition’s public profile could…
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Soul-Searching Follows Farmers’ Market Tragedy
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Mayor Richard Bloom calls his city “a working paradise” — a beachside Los Angeles suburb and governable mix of capitalist and anti-capitalist values where followers of both Irving Thalberg and Irving Howe live in some proximity to each other and all receive a fair hearing. With its millionaire homeowners, senior citizens,…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 25, 2003
Once again, Der Vinkl is pleased to offer our readers still another tasty dish of family humor drawn from the Yiddish Forverts under the title of khendelekh. The editor of the feature is Rukhl Shaechter, who seems to have an inexhaustible reservoir of such amusing tiny tales. The transliteration is by Goldie Gold, the English…
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Dancing at the Revolution
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 Edited by Candace Falk University of California Press, 655 pages, $60. * * *| ‘I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful radiant things.” That is what anarchism meant to Emma Goldman, the Jewish immigrant from Russia…
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ADL, B’nai B’rith Join Fight Against Judicial Nominee
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s pick for a federal appeals judgeship in Atlanta is drawing strong opposition from Jewish groups, including three organizations that usually refuse to take sides in judicial fights. Officials at the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International and American Jewish Congress said that they felt obligated to abandon their typical silence on judicial…
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