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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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Issa Defends Record on Mideast
Rep. Darrell Issa, the San Diego Republican who is funding the recall drive against Governor Gray Davis, says his record on Israel is solid, and Democratic efforts to depict him as a pro-Palestinian extremist are “a smear.” Issa, a third-generation Lebanese-American, met with Yasser Arafat in April along with two other congressman in an attempt…
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Down and Out on San Remo Drive
San Remo Drive By Leslie Epstein Handsel Books, 236 pages, $26 * * *| A reviewer once said of Leslie Epstein’s early collection of tragic-comic short stories: “If writers got gold stars for the risks they took, Leslie Epstein would get a handful.” Indeed, Epstein’s work is replete with “risks,” with efforts to combine high…
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Bush Sidesteps Liberal Leaders
WASHINGTON — When President Bush sat down to dinner with about 120 Jews at the White House recently, many familiar faces in the organized American Jewish community ate at home. Instead of Jewish organizational leaders, the guest list for the dinner, which marked the opening of an Anne Frank exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial…
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Novelist Leon Uris Taught Jewish Readers To Stand Tall
I was 10 years old when the film version of “Exodus,” Leon Uris’s epic telling of the struggle for the establishment of Israel, opened in Times Square. Going to see it was an event of considerable moment. Even as a 10-year-old, heading downtown by subway with a neighborhood friend and his mother, I understood that…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
So what did they eat at what was reportedly the first all-kosher White House dinner? Caterer David Dahan told the Forward that the food at the June 11 event — held in honor of the opening of the exhibit “Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — was…
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Tourists Trek to Tuscany To Shop, Chop and Bake
Yes, the pumpkin ravioli is delicious; yes, the veal scaloppini is succulent, and yes, the tiramisu is divine — but are they kosher? No one who takes a vacation with La Cucina Kasher in Toscana (Kosher Cooking in Tuscany) ever need worry about that. Cucina Kasher is a weeklong “cooking holiday.” For the uninitiated, cooking…
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Ruling May Threaten Restitution Efforts
A Supreme Court ruling striking down a California law to aid Holocaust survivors seeking compensation appears to have very broad implications that critics say could undo restitution efforts in all states of the union. The Supreme Court this week reversed a California statute that was meant to pressure insurance companies to turn over lists of…
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Beyond the Pale: One Reporter’s Journey to Iraq
Jacqueline Gold, a senior reporter for Crain’s New York Business, spends most Saturdays at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale in the Bronx, scurrying after her daughters or reading Torah. This spring, however, found her in Iraq, where Crain’s had sent her to cover the reconstruction efforts, particularly the participation of New York organizations,…
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Happy Hour With Freddie Roman, Master of the Well-Done Roast ‘Boy Meets Goy’ Vexes ‘Sex’ As Show Enters Final Season
She’s the beautiful, mild-mannered über-WASP on HBO’s smash series “Sex and the City.” He’s her lawyer — short, round and Jewish — who is hairy everywhere but atop his head. Despite the odds, Charlotte York (played by Kristin Davis) and Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) fall in love. But in a classic case of boy meets…
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Canadian Rabbis Split on Gay Weddings
TORONTO — With Canada poised to recognize gay marriage, liberal Canadian rabbis are divided over whether to perform religious wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced last week that the federal government would draft a legislative amendment giving same-sex couples equal access to marriage under Canadian civil law. Chretien said the legislation…
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