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Courses Attract Christians Camp for Adults
BERLIN — Educational courses about Judaism were, for some, a prime attraction at a massive Christian gathering in Germany. “Church Days Convention,” a three-day conference featuring more than 3,200 events, was organized by Germany’s Protestant and Catholic churches, and drew an estimated 200,000 “pilgrims” to Berlin from across the country. Starting May 28, the event…
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Bumpy Road to Success: From Strip Joints to Academia
There are coming-of-age books about Jewish identity, lesbianism, daughters’ relationships with their mothers, the Holocaust, being born out of wedlock, and the dark world of burlesque dancing. But Lillian Faderman’s autobiography, “Naked in the Promised Land” (Houghton Mifflin), just may be the first to cover all these bases in one fell swoop. Faderman, now 62,…
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Courses Attract Christians
BERLIN — Educational courses about Judaism were, for some, a prime attraction at a massive Christian gathering in Germany. “Church Days Convention,” a three-day conference featuring more than 3,200 events, was organized by Germany’s Protestant and Catholic churches, and drew an estimated 200,000 “pilgrims” to Berlin from across the country. Starting May 28, the event…
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Charity Chiefs Decrying Lack of Coordinated Opposition to Tax Cuts
With social service agencies nationwide squeezed between rising need, stagnant budgets and shrinking state aid, growing numbers of local Jewish charity officials are grumbling over the failure of their national leaders to oppose the administration’s tax cut policies. Volunteer and professional leaders at Jewish welfare federations across the country said their social-service agencies are facing…
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‘Capturing the Friedmans’: A Shakespearean Tragedy on Long Island
It is difficult to imagine a documentary more emotionally excruciating than “Capturing the Friedmans.” Frederick Wiseman’s celebrated films “Titticut Follies” and “High School” may deftly and painfully expose the systemic negligence of social institutions, and a masterpiece such as Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” scorches hearts yet elevates us with its respect for history and truth. But…
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Kosher Food Manufacturer To Pay Compensation
A Brooklyn-based kosher food manufacturer has agreed to a $1.075 million settlement stemming from charges that it violated state and federal labor laws. New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer announced Wednesday that employees would be compensated for unpaid wages. Under the terms of a the settlement brokered by Spitzer’s office, the Tuv Taam Corporation…
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Children of the Revolution
Great Neck By Jay Cantor Knopf, 703 pages, $27.95. ——- During my undergraduate years at the University of Wisconsin in the mid-1970s, a rumor made the rounds about how the administration intended to restore calm to the turbulently radical campus: It was going to put an admissions quota on New York Jews. As far as…
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Memoir Recalls Bad Hugs: Hers and His
An astute observer of American culture once questioned why anyone would ever buy the autobiography of a celebrity, since the few lines actually worth reading always end up in the newspapers. In other words, why drop $28 for a copy of “Living History,” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new autobiography, when we already have been reading for…
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Gleanings
We arrived in New York City, my parents and I, in early August l943, and immediately moved into a small apartment near Van Cortland Park, in the Bronx, courtesy of the Jewish Labor Committee. In l940 and 1941 the JLC had come to the aid of my parents, members of the Jewish Socialist Bund, who…
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Leaders Gamble on Road Map Amid Tempered Expectations
AQABA, Jordan — In the end, President Bush could not have hoped for more. He got Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas to say as much as either man could permit himself to say. Sharon gave his strongest-ever endorsement of Palestinian statehood and pledged to start immediately dismantling illegal settlement outposts. Abbas issued his bluntest denunciation…
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Friedman: Will Jews Still Care?
The following exchange was excerpted from Charlie Rose’s May 30 television interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. CHARLIE ROSE: The other thing is that the American Jewish community does not speak with one voice either. THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Absolutely. The rank-and-file are a lot more moderate than the, quote unquote, leadership. CR: Why is…
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