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In the (Female) Mind’s Eye: Regarding Pain
Regarding the Pain of Others By Susan Sontag Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 131 pages, $20. * * *| Lately, we have come to expect war photography as unassailably accurate and objective as the news with which it is featured, as unslanted as its accompanying text. A photographer of the recent war in Iraq was fired…
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Newsdesk July 25, 2003
Feinstein Backs Vouchers Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has come out in favor of experimental school-voucher program being pushed by fellow Democrat, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams. In an opinion article in Tuesday’s Washington Post, Feinstein wrote that although she has never before supported a voucher program and still deeply believes in strengthening America’s public schools,…
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‘Arafat refused –– and all the rest is gossip’
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak recently summed up a three-day-long seminar devoted to the July 2000 Camp David summit with this succinct verdict: “Yasser Arafat refused — and all the rest is gossip.” Most Israelis would agree with Barak’s binary, black-or-white assessment of that ill-fated trilateral summit that led, in short order, to the…
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Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y (Correction)
The author of the article “Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y,” David Wallis, was misidentified in the July 4 issue. He is the editorial director of Featurewell.com, not Tikkun. Senator Blanche Lincoln was misidentified in the June 6 editorial “Chutzpah.” She represents the state of Arkansas. Robert Meth was misidentified in the June 13…
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The Village Green: A Big City’s Small-Town Vibe
A couple of years ago, I got stuck on the M14 crosstown bus at rush hour. This is because I am an idiot. But it gave me ample time to chat with my seatmate, an elderly Jewish woman who, as it turns out, had lived on my street as a child. She laughed out loud…
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq; Two Funds Fight Cancer
At the July 1 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York presentation “A Walk Through Jewish Iraq,” Alice Hecht, chief administrative officer of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, using slides and film clips, recapped her 1996 through 1998 visits to Baghdad’s old Jewish quarter “between weapons’ inspections.” Describing services at “the only functioning…
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Israeli Arab Wins Political Asylum in U.S.
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal appeals court in San Francisco has granted political asylum to an Israeli Arab who claims that he suffered from persecution at the hands of the Israeli government and military. As a result of last week’s ruling, Ibrahim Baballah; his wife, Ula, and their teenage son, Ahmad, can’t be deported from…
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Bobby Roth’s “Manhood” (2003) makes its West Coast premiere at the 23rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which features some 51 films from 13 countries. The sequel to 2001’s “Jack the Dog,” “Manhood” follows Jack (Nestor Carbonell), a reformed womanizer who is now divorced and living with his 14-year-old son, Sam (Andrew Ferchand). Jack has…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hamptons Holiday: Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is spending the weekend of July 26 and 27 in New York’s posh Hamptons resort area, in particular Westhampton, where he is speaking on the Sabbath at the Westhampton Synagogue and attending a fundraiser on Sunday at The Prime Grill. The Orthodox synagogue is led by Rabbi Marc Schneier,…
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Activists: Ethiopians Die As Care Is Denied
A dozen Ethiopians, including nine children, reportedly died last month after being refused care by American Jewish relief organizations as they waited for permission to immigrate to Israel. Among the dead were starvation victims Emaye Molla, 18, and her 8-year-old brother, Berhane, Ethiopian activists said. According to the activists, others died from treatable cases of…
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Spotlight Shifts to Lieberman’s Children
The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost its two top finance staffers this week in a staff purge that drew attention to the six-figure salaries the campaign was paying to Lieberman’s children for their work as fundraisers. Finance director Shari Yost and her deputy, Jennifer Yocham, resigned, in what the campaign described as…
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