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U.S.-Israel Showdown Seen on Security Fence As Sharon Meets Bush
JERUSALEM — Officials here are concerned that growing American-Israeli disagreements over the so-called “separation fence” between Israel and the West Bank may mar next week’s planned meeting in Washington between Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush. Sharon is coming to the United States on the heels of the first-ever visit to the White House by…
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Recruitment Plan Divides Canadian Religious Leaders
When Jews for Jesus announced plans recently to recruit members in Canada, it caused a firestorm of controversy that revealed a rift between the Jewish and Christian communities. The group made a public announcement that it would recruit this summer in Toronto; in contrast to previous efforts, Jews for Jesus announced that they intended to…
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Scared Blind Date Might Lead to Pulpit Marriage
I am a 30-year-old single man. A friend of mine wants to set me up with a woman who is studying to become a rabbi. She sounds like a wonderful person in every way — bar the career she has chosen. When I asked her if she intended to teach, she informed me that she…
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Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y (Correction)
The author of the article “Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y,” David Wallis, was misidentified in the July 4 issue. He is the editorial director of Featurewell.com, not Tikkun. Senator Blanche Lincoln was misidentified in the June 6 editorial “Chutzpah.” She represents the state of Arkansas. Robert Meth was misidentified in the June 13…
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The Village Green: A Big City’s Small-Town Vibe
A couple of years ago, I got stuck on the M14 crosstown bus at rush hour. This is because I am an idiot. But it gave me ample time to chat with my seatmate, an elderly Jewish woman who, as it turns out, had lived on my street as a child. She laughed out loud…
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq; Two Funds Fight Cancer
At the July 1 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York presentation “A Walk Through Jewish Iraq,” Alice Hecht, chief administrative officer of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, using slides and film clips, recapped her 1996 through 1998 visits to Baghdad’s old Jewish quarter “between weapons’ inspections.” Describing services at “the only functioning…
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Knesset Vote Scandal Puts Democracy in the Dock
JERUSALEM — The fraud squad of Israel’s national police is expected to complete its investigation into the Knesset double-voting scandal this week and will make its recommendations to Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein on whether to pursue a full prosecution. The scandal involves Knesset members, most of them from Likud, who are suspected of casting dual…
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Too Much or Not Enough? Examining Jewishness on the Small Screen
The Jews of Prime Time By David Zurawik Brandeis University Press (Published by University Presses of New England), 256 pages, $29.95. * * *| Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom By Vincent Brook Rutgers University Press, 240 pages, $60. * * *| Was “Seinfeld” too Jewish or not Jewish enough for…
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The Tortilla Steps Up to the Plate, Filling the Hole Left by the Bagel
MILLBURN, N.J. — Surveying his colorful, recently opened restaurant, David Fishman points to the smoky, saucy and decidedly untough meat being devoured by a reporter. “That’s not your bubbe’s brisket,” he said, raising an eyebrow and smiling. Indeed. While the word “brisket” conjures images of Passover Seders and home-cooked meals, Fishman’s version of the Jewish…
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That’s Entertainment!
Growing up in “Jewish New York” in the 1950s and 1960s, I didn’t think too much about the fact that Betty Boop was a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, out for a little fun. The wonderful conceit of the Jewish Museum’s “Entertaining America” is that the viewer obligingly slips into the pew of the secular…
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9/11 Report Ups Heat On Saudis, Washington
The Bush administration, already embattled over its use of doubtful intelligence in building its case for the war against Iraq, is gearing up for renewed scrutiny over reports that it has hampered investigations of the September 11 attacks. A congressional report on the attacks is set to be released in the middle of next week,…
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