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Confronting In-Law’s Mean Streak
I converted to Judaism 12 years ago when I married my husband. Still, my mother-in-law never misses an opportunity to refer to me as “the shiksa.” Enough is enough. How do I let her know that her remarks are hurtful and offensive? — The convert’s lament If she weren’t your mother-in-law I might suggest responding…
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Jewish Voters Still Overwhelmingly Democratic
Jewish Democrats become apoplectic when they hear Republicans swaggeringly predict a shift in the Jewish vote toward the Republican column. The overwhelming preponderance of polling, Democrats say, supports the opposite view — that Jews, alone among white groups, remain overwhelmingly Democratic. Last month, an independent poll for the Ipsos/Cook Political Report again confirmed the Democrats’…
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The Honor of Sacrifice
Strains of the “Ma Tovu” — “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob; Thy dwellings, O Israel!” — filtered from the human synagogue to the nearby barn. The flock’s elder, a white ram, turned to the kids and lambs, bullocks, calves and colts sitting up front on the hay: “In this week’s parsha, Chukat, we…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Presidential Players: The Boston Globe’s seven-part series of articles on the life of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is so voluminous and detailed that it practically constitutes the screenplay for a multi-part television docudrama, a reporter and two political types decided over beers last week. The drinkers — there was a Kerry supporter among them —…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 11, 2003
The columns in the Forverts titled “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” observed the 65th anniversary of Abraham Liessin’s death. He was born in Minsk in 1872 and studied at several outstanding yeshivas. But he reached out to the secular world and to the young radicals who idolized him, secretly distributing his incendiary poems and articles from…
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Democratic Hopefuls Parade Through New Hampshire
MERRIMACK, N.H. — It’s one of the oddities of American politics that this most parochial and atypical of states has so much to say about selecting presidents. As such, one would imagine that local parades — especially local July 4th parades — would be teeming with contenders for the job. But they won’t have them…
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Playwright Attacked Over Speech
JERUSALEM — A public attack against playwright Arthur Miller is the latest in a string of moves by Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski that critics say raise questions about his ability to reach out across religious boundaries. Lupolianski, a relatively tolerant ultra-Orthodox politician, was upset by remarks made by Miller late last month in his videotaped…
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A Shayle About Shayle
Reader Paul Malevitz of Los Angeles has a shayle about the word shayle. He writes:In the Yiddish spoken in the territories of the former USSR, northeastern Poland and most of Rumania, we pronounce the words for “meat and bones” as fleysh un/in beyner [“ey” being the linguistic notation for the vowel in a word like…
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A Lyrical Tribute at Songwriters Awards
“Let the world know who writes the songs!” proclaimed Hal David, chairman and CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, at the June 12 Induction Ceremony & Awards Presentation of the National Academy of Popular Music. “Often the songwriters’ genius goes unrecognized by the public,” said Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of EMI Music and…
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Robert Goldstein Sentencing (Correction)
An article in last week’s Forward on the sentencing of Robert Goldstein for allegedly planning to bomb a mosque in Florida inadvertently misrepresented the target of a search by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The bureau found explosives in Goldstein’s townhouse, not in his lawyer’s home. Ralph P. Slone is the founder…
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Newsdesk July 4, 2003
Group Set to Fight Tax Cuts President Bush’s tax cuts and budget policy appear to be driving a wedge between the Jewish community’s public policy arm and the national federated system it is meant to represent. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a policy-coordinating body for 13 national Jewish organizations and 123 local community relations…
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