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Suit Filed on Immigrants’ Behalf
JERUSALEM – A class-action lawsuit has been filed with the Israeli high court in an effort to force the government to follow through on a February decision to speed up the immigration process for more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians hoping to immigrate to Israel. Under the plan, which was approved by Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s…
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Newsdesk July 4, 2003
Group Set to Fight Tax Cuts President Bush’s tax cuts and budget policy appear to be driving a wedge between the Jewish community’s public policy arm and the national federated system it is meant to represent. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a policy-coordinating body for 13 national Jewish organizations and 123 local community relations…
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Funding Low for Ethiopian Absorption Program
Experts working to integrate new immigrants into Israeli society are saying the funding for a new project to help absorb recent arrivals from Ethiopia is grossly inadequate. Ethiopian activists and absorption experts in Israel are thankful nonetheless for the launching of the long-delayed Ethiopian National Project, a partnership between Israel and Diaspora Jewry to assist…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Penn Plotting: Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman stopped in Philadelphia on June 16 to headline a fundraiser for Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz in what some observers are viewing as part of a Republican strategy to put the Keystone State — which went for Al Gore in 2000 — in the GOP column in 2004….
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LanLanguage of the H.erem
Reader Leon G. Goldstein writes: “I’m quite familiar with the Yiddish expression freg mir bekheyrem. But what is the source of it? Is it related to the Hebrew h.erem, meaning excommunication?” The kheyrem of freg mir bekheyrem, an expression that means “I have no idea” or “I haven’t a clue,” is indeed the same word…
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The ‘The’: It’s not often you read articles about articles — the parts of speech, that is. Leave it to Midstream, a monthly Jewish review, to wash away any pretense of innocence on the part of the word “the.” “There is a conceptual, cultural, and, finally moral issue that bears directly on antisemitism in the…
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Murder and Intrigue in Mandate Palestine
A Palestine Affair By Jonathan Wilson Pantheon Books, 272 pages, $23 * * *| Jonathan Wilson’s new novel, “A Palestine Affair,” opens, quite spectacularly, as Mark Bloomberg, a painter, and his gentile American wife, Joyce, having just made love in their new Jerusalem home, go outside to their garden. A softly moaning, bleeding man in…
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ADL, Bush Hail Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action
Outspoken foes of affirmative action were bitterly disappointed Monday, as a majority of the high court’s justices for the first time upheld the use of racial preferences to promote student body diversity. In a twist, however, two guarded critics of affirmative action — the Bush administration and the Anti-Defamation League — joined supporters of racial…
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A Swedish Novel Brings out the Hyde in a British Dr. Jekyll
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas By Dannie Abse Carroll & Graf, 195 pages, $23 —– The double was a figure of great importance in 19th-century novels. From the literal-mindedness of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde to the genius of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s saints and sinners, novelists used the notion of duality…
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Newsdesk June 27, 2003
Pressure Mounts on Harvard Critics are stepping up their efforts to pressure Harvard Divinity School into returning a $2.5 million donation from the president of the United Arab Emirates. The Jewish chaplain and director of Hillel at Columbia University and Barnard College, Rabbi Charles Sheer, recently sent out an email encouraging people to sign an…
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Chronicling Life and Death in the Ghetto of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 By Herman Kruk Edited by Benjamin Harshav and Translated by Barbara Harshav Yale University Press, 656 pages, $45 * * *| In 1935, the literary critic Shmuel Niger observed, “About no Jewish community, except for Jerusalem, of course,…
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