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…
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…
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…
A forthcoming Mel Gibson movie about Jesus’ last hours of life is the focus of escalating concern among Jewish groups, which are stepping up their statements expressing worries that the project could revive dangerous notions of Jewish responsibility for Jesus’ death. Citing a report on a draft of the film’s script by an embattled group…
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…
JERUSALEM – A class-action lawsuit has been filed with the Israeli high court in an effort to force the government to follow through on a February decision to speed up the immigration process for more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians hoping to immigrate to Israel. Under the plan, which was approved by Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s…
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…
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…
“The Last Refuge: The Story of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai” (2003), directed and written by Xiaohong Cheng and co-produced by Noriko Sawada, tells the story of the roughly 18,000 Jews who between 1938 and 1942 escaped Eastern Europe to Shanghai, which required no documentation upon entry. Shanghai’s prewar Jewish neighborhood could no longer contain the…
Experts working to integrate new immigrants into Israeli society are saying the funding for a new project to help absorb recent arrivals from Ethiopia is grossly inadequate. Ethiopian activists and absorption experts in Israel are thankful nonetheless for the launching of the long-delayed Ethiopian National Project, a partnership between Israel and Diaspora Jewry to assist…
Penn Plotting: Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman stopped in Philadelphia on June 16 to headline a fundraiser for Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz in what some observers are viewing as part of a Republican strategy to put the Keystone State — which went for Al Gore in 2000 — in the GOP column in 2004….
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