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Lectures and Discussions Solidarity: Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon, chief of staff of the Israeli army, speaks about “Solidarity with Israel” at Sabbath services. Ya’alon has served in military campaigns including the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1978 Litani Operation and Operation Peace for Galilee. The Hampton Synagogue, 154 Sunset Ave., Westhampton Beach; July 12, 11…
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In Judicial Twist, Republicans Seen Stalling Bush Pick
After months of Republicans crying foul over Democratic efforts to filibuster conservative judicial nominees, Democrats are accusing GOP leaders of delaying a vote on one of President Bush’s most controversial picks. Democrats are ready to debate and vote on the district court nomination of James Leon Holmes, but Senate Republican leaders are stalling, said two…
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‘What Do You Want To Be If You Grow Up?’
State of Siege [Users Manual] By Doron Goldenberg Gefen Publishing, 224 pages, $24.95. * * *| Several weeks ago, I gave a reading at a cafe in Jerusalem. One woman there — a friend of a friend — had dark, curly hair and wore a blue sweater. At least, I think it was blue, though…
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LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
Eitan Gorlin’s “The Holy Land,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at 2002’s Slamdance Film Festival, makes its New York debut. The film is set in 1999 and follows a rabbinical student in Israel whose teacher has instructed him to visit a prostitute in order to relieve his sexual curiosity. Mendy moves to Jerusalem, where…
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Out of Africa: Zimbabwean Jewry Faces Extinction
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Political turmoil in neighboring Zimbabwe is threatening southern Africa’s second-largest Jewish community with extinction. Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of sub-Saharan Africa, has rapidly become a basket case in recent years, as the regime of President Robert Mugabe has resorted to ever more extreme measures to remain in power. Political repression is…
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PSALM 151
The season for paradox has come when two become one yet remain distinctive when our little enclave overflows with reminiscences and happy wishes and we bask in familiar voices and all is friendliness. The complex self is now suspended for this is a day for a rondo a jig a romp ….whatever, a day for…
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Comedy Giants Gather To Mourn One of Hollywood’s Great Clowns
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor includes 14 pages of jokes on death, so when Buddy Hackett passed away in Malibu at age 79 last week, the chapel at Hillside Memorial in Culver City was packed with every comedy icon that hadn’t booked a Fourth of July gig out of town. Sid Caesar sat up front…
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Jazz Musician Herbie Mann Went Back to His Roots
The CD cover of “The Best Of Herbie Mann” features a shot of the late jazz flutist, taken some time in the mid-1960s. The very picture of an urban Jewish hepcat, Mann stares out of the photo looking cool and disinterested. Some people might argue the cool part, but no one could ever accuse him…
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Creating Common Cultural Identity in a Diverse Israel
Benjamin Ish-Shalom and Elazar Stern are the quintessential odd couple. Professor Ish-Shalom, dressed formally in a suit and tie with wire-rim glasses, sideburns and slightly disheveled hair, looks every bit the academic. The founder and rector of Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish Studies and Leadership, Ish-Shalom speaks with the precision of…
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The Raw Truth About Lox
What you've been eating is most likely smoked salmon. "Lox" is much saltier.
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Sensible Anti-Zionism: “There is a legitimate ground for taking a moral and sensible stand against Zionism,” firebrand Israeli-Arab politician Azmi Bishara writes in the July 3 issue of the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly. “We can retain our anti-Zionist cultural stand without being enemies of the Jews or to coexistence.” Bishara’s own anti-Zionist cultural stand was put…
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