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From Member of the Family To Member of the Tribe?
Burberry raincoats, designer biscuits, health insurance and therapy just aren’t enough for some canines. Fidos and Fifis are now bounding — or being dragged? — up the evolutionary ladder. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s leading whom. So why stop at “member of the family” when there’s “member of the tribe”? Enter the “Bark Mitzvah.”…
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Joe Pulls in Cash, But Howard Dean Hits the Jackpot
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is hanging on to his presidential candidacy by the threads of his tzitzit after posting a second-quarter contributions filing that appears to have put him further back in the pack of Democratic contenders. Lieberman brought in “about $5 million and still counting” in the quarter that closed June 30, according to…
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Girlfriend-Pianist’s Lovesong Needs Tuning
— Looking for lessons For the past six months I have been dating a woman I am seriously considering marrying. She is an accomplished pianist, and I spend many evenings at her house listening to her play while I read. I thought it would be nice if I also learned to play. My girlfriend has…
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Lonesome Prairie: Midwest Young Head for Coasts
OMAHA, Neb. — Aaron Pollak looks back fondly on his childhood on the prairie. He recalls bicycling over Omaha’s rolling hills, walking on the Old Market’s cobblestone streets, playing at the JCC day camp and participating in the Jewish community. But there’s no beach in Omaha, no thriving nightlife. There aren’t any national parks nearby,…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 4, 2003
On the occasion of the 65th yahrzeit of Baruch Charney Vladeck, the Forverts dedicated its page on “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” to a sampling of his works. This may come as a surprise to some of our readers who recall Vladeck as the longtime manager of the Forverts, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, president…
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Yiddish Words Gain Recognition in American Dictionary’s New Edition
It may mean bubkes to some, but oy, does it mean a lot to others. This week, a major force in the American dictionary establishment recognized two of the Yiddish language’s most common slang words. Merriam-Webster released the 11th edition of its dictionary on Tuesday, and many readers were delighted to find in it the…
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Right To Fight Bush Palestinian Aid Plan
WASHINGTON — Right-wing groups are gearing up to fight a Bush administration plan to increase American aid to the Palestinians and channel it directly to the Palestinian Authority. The Zionist Organization of America and several Christian evangelical groups are planning to “try to convince Congress not to finance the evolution of a terrorist state,” said…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Separate But Not Equal: “Judaism,” David Gelernter announces in the July-August issue of Commentary, “is the most important intellectual development in human history.” To wit: The Cold War set the Christian and “post-Christian modernist” West against the Marxist East. “The one thing Christianity and Marxism had in common,” he observes, “was that they were both…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Unknotting Their Roots: Three writers whose lives have been deeply affected by a family member discuss their lives and books. Michael Blumenthal, author of “All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir,” shares the story of his struggle for identity and belonging after the death of his adoptive mother and his father’s remarriage…
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Rolling Stone Reporter Gets Inside Peek at West Point
David Lipsky can’t stop calling his boss “sir.” The 37-year-old writer didn’t have a problem calling his boss Peter Travers, the editor at Rolling Stone magazine, “Peter” when he was dispatched in 1998 to write an article about the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Lipsky wound up spending an entire year on the West…
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NEW JERSEY
The David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble performs at “Klezmer at the Shore.” Featuring Glukh on piccolo and trumpet, Ronn Yedidia on accordion and Dan Auerbach on violin, the ensemble’s members are all Juilliard graduates. “We’re going to play traditional, Jewish and klezmer music from Ukraine, Poland, Hungary… pretty much every country in Eastern Europe,” Glukh said…
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