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Newsdesk May 30, 2003
Arabs To Visit Auschwitz Some 300 Israeli Arabs and Jews toured the former Jewish district of Krakow on Monday, beginning a visit that aims to help Muslims understand what Jews suffered in the Holocaust. The group of 150 Israeli-Arab intellectuals, athletes and businessmen, joined by as many Jews, were to spend the next two days…
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Happy Holidays From Hadassah
Hadassah ladies are famous for many things: fundraising, love of Israel, hospitals and, last but not least, cookbook compiling. The first Hadassah cookbook came out in 1931, a product of the hard work of a chapter in Dorchester, Mass. It had an ochre cover and advertisements, but no illustrations. The dishes included such non-kosher fare…
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Ordained Daughter Follows in Her Father’s Footsteps
Gabai’s father, Yosef, the chief Sephardic rabbi of northern Israel, had recently died, and she long had yearned to be a rabbi herself. But rabbinical school simply wasn’t an option for women in her family, which claims a lineage of Orthodox rabbis going back to the Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492. So Gabai put…
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How the Radanite Traders Spiced Up Life in Dark-Ages Europe
The first spice, according to the Bible, was found in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 2:12 we are told of the land known as Havilah, “and the gold of that land is pure: Bdellium and onyx stone are there.” Bdellium (it is, in case you’re wondering, the only word in the English language that…
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Moving On After Crown Heights Verdict
Two days after the verdict in the third trial of Lemrick Nelson Jr., a mix of black and Jewish leaders met in Crown Heights to announce that the community would move forward not backward. The message was delivered at a press conference May 16 on Kingston Avenue to a handful of passersby — mostly children…
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An Evening of Two Elies: Wiesel, Tahari
The American Jewish Committee New York Chapter’s April 30 Stanley M. Isaacs Human Relations Award dinner at the New York Hilton — at which Elie Wiesel presented an award to fashion designer Elie Tahari — will be remembered as “The Evening of the Two Elies.” Delighting the 350 guests who helped raise $400,000, the biblically…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s May 13 appearance in front of a group of young Democrats in New York prompted divergent reactions in the national media. The Associated Press led its story about Lieberman’s speech to 400 supporters of Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century by noting the “hissing” and “jeers” that greeted the candidate’s response…
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What Our Fathers Got Away With
It’s one of the old, bottomless speculations: Would a humanity that had no God — if we can imagine humanity without the divine to believe, or alternatively disbelieve, in — have come up with a moral code? Without the idea of a heaven, would our human nature have issued itself a set of commandments to…
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Major Suspected Al Qaeda Attacks Since September 11, 2001
April 11, 2002 — Djerba, Tunisia In a suicide attack, a tanker truck explodes at an ancient synagogue on the island of Djerba killing 21 people, including 14 German tourists. May 8, 2002 — Karachi, Pakistan A car pulls up to a bus carrying French workers and explodes, killing 14 people, 11 of them French….
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 23, 2003
“Mishpokhe Kheyndlekh” are an ongoing feature in the Yiddish Forward. The items refer to humorous bits that are clean enough to be shared with the extended family. What follows are a few examples from recent issues. The transliteration is by Goldie Gold; the translation is by Gus Tyler. Tsvey fraynd zitsn in an eroplan. Bemeshekh…
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WELCOME TO WASHINGTON
Split on Church-State Case Jewish organizations are gearing up for a landmark Supreme Court church-state case, following Monday’s decision by the court to hear an appeal regarding government funding for religious education. The case involves Joshua Davey, a theology student in the state of Washington who applied for a state grant to help pay his…
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