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Faith-Based Prison Program’s Success Questioned
WASHINGTON — A recent study that was widely presented as documenting the success of an all-Christian rehabilitation program in a Texas state prison — and serving as proof that the Bush administration-backed programs should be expanded — actually shows that the program is a failure. The two-year study (2000-2002), published jointly by the University of…
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SUMMERTIME IN THE CITY
Seeds of Sun, a New York-based jazz quintet comprising five Israeli musicians, performs four sets of jazzed up Israeli and Jewish songs. Their performance is part of the Jewish Museum’s “SummerNights” programming, which pairs musical performances and TV classics on Thursday evenings. The band features vocalist Sagit Sherman, a former Israeli air force soloist; flutist…
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Dems Blast Bush Over Threats to Israel
In what some observers are describing as a campaign to shore up Jewish electoral support, congressional Democrats are blasting the White House for allegedly pressuring Israel to cease construction of its West Bank security fence. Thirty-one congressmen, all but two of them Democrats, signed on to a recent letter blasting administration officials for suggesting, in…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Heritage Night: Beta Israel of North America presents Ethiopian-Judaic Heritage Night. Ephraim Isaac, president of the Yemenite Jewish Federation of America, speaks on “Two Pictures of Ethiopia,” and a U.N. representative discusses Ethiopia’s drought. Ethiopian arts and crafts are displayed, as well as photographs of Ethiopian Jews by Joan Roth and Win…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Agnostic About Arnold: California’s top Republican brass is decidedly agnostic about the gubernatorial bid of moderate Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite the media frenzy it touched off and polls showing the actor to be the leading candidate. Basically, they’re waiting to see whether he will survive whatever dirt comes out in the press — such as…
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ILLINOIS
Shattered Globe Theatre presents an adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), based on the screenplay by Abby Mann. Directed by Louis Contey, the play dramatizes the international war crimes trial of Ernst Janning, a prominent German judge played by Maury Cooper, three years after prominent Nazi leaders have already been tried….
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Gay Muslims Work Toward a New Islam
The melodic strains of the Muslim call for prayer reverberate off the walls of the odd-shaped room as a handful of men and women gather side by side in a row up front. Eventually, the small assembly of faithful bend and bow in the familiarly graceful motions that constitute the Muslim prayer. But this is…
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Political Cartoon Raises Ire in Philadelphia
A recent cartoon published in the Philadelphia Inquirer criticizing Israel’s security fence is creating a tempest among Philadelphia’s Jewish community and major Jewish organizations. Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize winner and staff editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1971, illustrated a cartoon depicting Arabs cordoned into jail-like sections of a Jewish star. A number…
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In Ever-Richer European Union, Roma Still Live in Abject Poverty
The newly expanded European Union will stretch from the Atlantic to the Aegean, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. Europeans will have 23 official languages in which to discuss how to spend their common currency. Borders have been knocked down, and cooperation has increased. The E.U., however, has not been a partnership for all its…
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Bank Head Steps Down After Praising Hitler
The president of a Chicago area bank stepped down last week after a furor erupted over his comments praising Hitler’s economic policies. In a 1,500-word article in the July issue of Outlook, the online newsletter of the Glenview State Bank, which serves thousands of customers in the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago, President David…
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Israeli Underworld Surfaces as Gang Warfare Hits Street
JERUSALEM — Despite the shaky cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel’s streets are stained with blood this summer, due to an explosion of gang warfare that has police baffled. One of Israel’s most feared mobsters, Yisrael “Alice” Mizrahi, 58, was killed last week when his Mercedes jeep was blown up near his south Tel…
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