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Specter Squeezed From Left, Right On Support for Bush’s Bench Picks
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is getting the political squeeze from both the left and right over his support of President Bush’s anti-abortion judicial nominees. The jam has Democrats predicting that Specter will lose the Jewish vote and fail in his bid for a fifth term. The nation’s senior Jewish lawmaker and a senior member of…
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Going West on the Road to Happyville
Is there anything more American than the long automobile trip en famille? For some families, like that of writer Calvin Trillin, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., during the 1930s and ’40s, taking to the road, especially in the years following the war, was a kind of annual contest, pitting endurance against distance. Writing…
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Hollywood Celebrities Slow To Mobilize in Support of Israel
LOS ANGELES — Judging from his work on several gruesome Quentin Tarantino films, Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender seems like an obvious candidate to brave the intifada and visit Israel. But Bender’s trip there last month marked the first time that the “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” producer had ever been to the Jewish state. “I’m…
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We Knew We Had a Landmark Case
Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad…. And they stood before Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying… [Numbers 27:1-2] “I am Machlah, one of the daughters of Zelophehad. We are five sisters altogether. Tirzah is our center. Dreamy Tirzah….
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Filmmaker Finds Inspiration in a Bar’s Motley Crew
Slumping in his chair, debut film director Eitan Gorlin oozes California cool. His hair, almost blond, flops into a bowl cut; his corduroys, white but slightly dirty, are rolled above his ankles, and his lone accessory, an unadorned silver ring, sits oh-so-defiantly on his thumb. If Gorlin comes across as cool, however, his new film…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 18, 2003
A recurrent feature in the Forverts is titled “Mishpokhe Khendlekh,” which may be roughly translated as “Household Humor.” In other words, it is humor fit for the mishpokhe. Indirectly, it makes a point: One can be funny without being smutty. What follows are two such delightful stories. (The column is edited by Rukhl Schaechter.) The…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Run of the Rumor Mill: Forget the so-called cabal of neoconservative “chicken hawks” whose oil interests supposedly drove the Iraq war redux. The real movers and shakers in occupied Baghdad, according to rumors spreading around the Saddam-less capital, are the Mossad and the Jewish Agency for Israel, under the overall leadership of former Jerusalem mayor…
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ALPERN EYES ISRAEL FROM ALL ANGLES
“Israel Unwrapped” features roughly a dozen panoramic photographs of historic, religious and scenic sites in Israel by the self-taught, Chicago-born Andy Alpern. The photographs — including “Copper Kotel: The Western Wall at Night,” “The Shuk Vol. 1: Machane Yehudah,” “Dead Sea: Ashanti Camp Site,” “Arizal’s View” in Safed and “The Banias Waterfall” — were taken…
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Organizations Divided Over Anti-Drug Campaign
WASHINGTON — A Bush administration attempt to enlist churches, mosques and synagogues in the fight against teenage drug use is dividing Jewish organizations, but not along usual lines. The White House initiative has drawn support from B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and United Jewish Communities, the roof body of Jewish community federations in North America. But…
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BRANCHES OF JUDAISM
The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El presents “Torah Under the Trees,” three Central Park walking tours and text-study programs led by architectural historian Anthony Robins and the center’s director, Rabbi Leon Morris. Biblical and rabbinic texts are studied on the following themes: “Returning to the Garden of Eden,” “The Struggle Between…
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Newsdesk July 18, 2003
Lawmakers Back P.A. Aid Two staunchly pro-Israel Jewish members of the House of Representatives, Democrats Gary Ackerman of New York and Howard Berman of California, joined California Democrat Rep. Lois Capps in urging fellow House members to send President Bush a letter supporting his plan to send aid directly to the Palestinian Authority. In a…
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