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Newsdesk July 11, 2003
Tel Aviv ‘Don’ Gives Thanks Ze’ev Rosenstein, reputed “don” of the Tel Aviv underworld, attended a synagogue in Jerusalem on Monday to recite Gomel — the public prayer of thanksgiving for escaping danger — after surviving an apparent assassination attempt. Rosenstein narrowly escaped death last week when a bomb went off outside his office, injuring…
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Meet the Man Who Brought Baseball Into the Strike Zone
Secular summer holidays are great. You barbecue and watch fireworks. Jewish summer holidays, however, aren’t quite as much fun. You fast; you pray — bring on the good times. The first of them, the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, is right around the corner, on July 17. For the three weeks between the 17th…
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Groups Mobilizing To Protect Medicaid
WASHINGTON — The nation’s major Jewish organizations are launching a program aimed at shielding federal social programs that cater to the poor, with its first priority to be maintaining Medicaid’s present funding and strict federal supervision over the way states deliver Medicaid services. “This will be our main focus in the next few months,” said…
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Confronting In-Law’s Mean Streak
I converted to Judaism 12 years ago when I married my husband. Still, my mother-in-law never misses an opportunity to refer to me as “the shiksa.” Enough is enough. How do I let her know that her remarks are hurtful and offensive? — The convert’s lament If she weren’t your mother-in-law I might suggest responding…
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Jewish Voters Still Overwhelmingly Democratic
Jewish Democrats become apoplectic when they hear Republicans swaggeringly predict a shift in the Jewish vote toward the Republican column. The overwhelming preponderance of polling, Democrats say, supports the opposite view — that Jews, alone among white groups, remain overwhelmingly Democratic. Last month, an independent poll for the Ipsos/Cook Political Report again confirmed the Democrats’…
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The Honor of Sacrifice
Strains of the “Ma Tovu” — “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob; Thy dwellings, O Israel!” — filtered from the human synagogue to the nearby barn. The flock’s elder, a white ram, turned to the kids and lambs, bullocks, calves and colts sitting up front on the hay: “In this week’s parsha, Chukat, we…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Presidential Players: The Boston Globe’s seven-part series of articles on the life of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is so voluminous and detailed that it practically constitutes the screenplay for a multi-part television docudrama, a reporter and two political types decided over beers last week. The drinkers — there was a Kerry supporter among them —…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 11, 2003
The columns in the Forverts titled “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” observed the 65th anniversary of Abraham Liessin’s death. He was born in Minsk in 1872 and studied at several outstanding yeshivas. But he reached out to the secular world and to the young radicals who idolized him, secretly distributing his incendiary poems and articles from…
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Democratic Hopefuls Parade Through New Hampshire
MERRIMACK, N.H. — It’s one of the oddities of American politics that this most parochial and atypical of states has so much to say about selecting presidents. As such, one would imagine that local parades — especially local July 4th parades — would be teeming with contenders for the job. But they won’t have them…
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Playwright Attacked Over Speech
JERUSALEM — A public attack against playwright Arthur Miller is the latest in a string of moves by Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski that critics say raise questions about his ability to reach out across religious boundaries. Lupolianski, a relatively tolerant ultra-Orthodox politician, was upset by remarks made by Miller late last month in his videotaped…
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E.U. Shuns Ban on Hamas
Rebuffing Washington, the European Union decided last week that it will not reclassify the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist group, insisting that its activities qualify it as a legitimate organization. Meeting last week in Brussels, the 15 European foreign ministers reached a unanimous decision not to change the political wing’s designation, a move…
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