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Palestinians, Israelis To Release Joint Peace Initiatives
While the world’s attention is focused on President Bush’s “road map” to peace, high-level groups of Israeli and Palestinian activists are crafting a brace of independent initiatives, several of which are due to be published soon. The initiatives, which spell out the nature of a final agreement in greater detail than the road map, are…
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THE LADIES LAUGH IT UP
Comedians Judy Gold, Jennifer Kirson and Karen Bergreen share their shtick and then share the stories behind their shtick in “Funny Girls.” Eldridge Street Project, 12 Eldridge St.; May 21, 6 p.m.; $5. (212-966-4782 or www.eldridgestreet.org)
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Settlements Top the Agenda As Bush, Sharon Meet in D.C.
JERUSALEM — The issue of Jewish settlements in the territories is the main obstacle awaiting Prime Minister Sharon when he meets with President Bush at the White House next Tuesday, according to informed sources here. Israel views Sharon’s White House visit, his first since October, as “crucial” to continued progress toward peace with the Palestinians,…
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Egyptian Activist Sees Opening for Democratic Reform
The American victory in Iraq is offering a unique opportunity to promote and spread democracy in the Middle East, according to the leading Egyptian human-rights activist. “Objectionable as the war may have been, the area has one fewer dictator. So there is a true opportunity to establish new institutions, new practices and new values, including…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lag B’Omer A Day for Joy, in Ladino: For the 33rd day of the omer, the 50-day period between the second day of Passover and Shavuot, the Ladino Players present an evening of Sephardic song and dance from Sevilla to Salonika — and folk tales, including several about that dear wise fool Djoha, the trickster….
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Groups Aim To Torpedo President’s Judge Pick
WASHINGTON — With congressional battles heating up over President Bush’s judicial nominees, two major Jewish organizations known for their liberal views have weighed in against the latest controversial Bush candidate, Alabama state Attorney General Bill Pryor. Pryor was nominated last month to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The two groups, the National…
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No Contest Pleas in L.A. Assault
Two Iranian men accused of attacking two men whom they believed were Jewish outside a West Hollywood nightclub pleaded no contest to a hate-crime charge, according to the Associated Press. Daoud Mohammad Majid, 19, and Mohammed Hassan Aref, 22, would have faced as many as eight years in state prison had they been convicted of…
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WE PROMISE — AND OTHER OATHS
These days ketubot, or marriage contracts, are created with as much originality and variation as the wedding ceremony itself — from traditional to not and back again. Integrating artwork, calligraphy and even pictures of the bride and groom beneath the chupah, the marriage documents in “Love as Activism: Beyond Egalitarianism in the Contemporary Ketubah” present…
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Iranian Jew Nabbed In L.A. Shul Arsons
LOS ANGELES — Alarmed at a string of recent arson attacks against synagogues and other religious institutions in the affluent San Fernando Valley, residents of this city were relieved last weekend when a suspect was arrested — and then shocked when the suspect was identified as a Jewish immigrant from Iran. Farshid Tehrani, 40, is…
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New Insurance Law To Protect Victims of Hate Crimes
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Hate-crime victims here no longer need to worry about losing their insurance, thanks to a new state law proposed and pushed by Jewish organizations. The measure prohibits insurance companies from canceling or not renewing coverage on property targeted in hate crimes. The new law, which applies to individual and institutional policyholders, was…
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Parley Takes a Fresh Look at World’s Oldest ‘Demon’
There is often comfort in the familiar, even in a familiar evil. That is why in the analysis of antisemitism, the historical approach, the search for continuities, is often an emotionally and rhetorically conflicted one. Casting one’s eyes back on the past millennia of persecution offers a terrifying vista. But if such a perspective can…
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