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Budget Crusade Pits Single Mom Versus Netanyahu
JERUSALEM — In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to stand up. In 2003, Vicki Knafo refused to lie down. It’s too early to say whether Knafo, the single mother from the Negev town of Mitzpe Ramon who marched to Jerusalem this month to protest the government’s austerity budget, will have the same impact as Parks. Parks’s…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Fierce Words: President Bush lied in making the case for the war in Iraq, and in at least one respect the situation there resembles Vietnam, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry suggested to reporters Monday. The Democratic presidential candidate, who spoke to the press in a conference call, said the president has “a clear credibility gap with…
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MASSACHUSETTS
The Musicorda Road Company performs music by Jewish composers in two concerts as part of the 17th annual Musicorda Summer Festival, which runs through August 5. The first concert features a performance of movements from Osvaldo Golijov’s “Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” for string quartet and klezmer clarinet. The second performance includes Mendelssohn’s…
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Waking Up the World to a Resurgence of Antisemitism
Phyllis Chesler has made a career out of challenging the status quo. With over three decades of activism under her belt, the radical feminist author has exposed sexism in the field of psychology, fought against what she calls “gender apartheid” and, most recently, criticized women for their harmful, unsisterly ways. Now, however, Chesler — a…
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Overtime: Necessary for Many Americans
The Fair Labor Standards Act (the Wage and Hour Law) passed in 1938 was one of the pillars of the New Deal, and it contributed to our economic recovery from the Great Depression. At this hour, that law should be updated by elevating the minimum wage to help reinvigorate our drooping economy. Raising the minimum…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Jerusalem on the North Shore: Edward Edelstein, director of Jewish life and learning at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, discusses “Jews and Jerusalem: Roots of Peace, Seeds of Conflict,” a look at the history of Jerusalem, its connection to the Jewish people and its battle scars. Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest…
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Unorthodox Behavior: A blogger going by the nom de guerre “Hasidic Rebel” and an agunah named Chayie Sieger are airing their ultra-Orthodox communities’ dirty laundry in the mainstream media. Sieger’s story of a Bobover chasidic marriage gone bad — real bad — is chronicled in the July 28 issue of New York, a weekly magazine….
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Officials Seek New Probe in Slaying by Cops
New York elected officials are demanding a second investigation into the four-year-old police slaying of a hammer-wielding Orthodox man in Brooklyn. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose district includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn, both Democrats, have mobilized separate efforts calling for a reopening of the investigation and urging Jewish groups…
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BERGER’S BOLD CANVASES
Seven paintings and prints by Boston-born artist David Berger are on view at the inaugural exhibition of Alan Rosenberg — Works of Art, a new Manhattan gallery of 20th-century art and design. Berger’s Expressionist artworks are accompanied by sterling silver hollowware by Allan Adler, Danish ceramics, glass from Finland and Dunbar furniture by Edward Wormley….
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Atheist Crusader Faces Starr in Legal Fight
Michael Arthur Newdow, the man best known for his crusade to remove “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, has a new adversary: former solicitor general and independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Starr is leading a team of lawyers representing Sandra Banning, the mother of Newdow’s daughter. The couple, who never married, is in the middle…
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Camp David Redux: The Reporter As Chronicler and Participant
Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 By Charles Enderlin Other Press, 361 pages, $28. * * *| In the course of six months, between March and September 2000, the most ambitious international effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict collapsed. The effort began in the aftermath of the first…
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