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‘The White Man’s Burden’
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power By Warren Zimmermann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 562 pages, $30. * * *| Warren Zimmermann has excellent timing. Taking to heart philosopher George Santayana’s observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the scholar and former diplomat has…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions For the Record: In honor of Israel Independence Day, Makor presents “Journalists Under Fire: Challenges in Covering Israel and the Conflict.” For this panel discussion, members of the press — Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt, Washington Post staff writer Bart Gellman and the New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman — discuss the…
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Legal Twist: Crown Heights Killer Asking To Get Away With Murder
It was a legal tactic breathtaking in its chutzpah. Some compared it to the old joke about the fellow who murders his parents, then asks for the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. But few doubted it might work. Through 12 years and two trials, Lemrick Nelson, the black youth arrested, tried…
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Tracing an Arc From Whitman to Glatshteyn
I Think of Our Lives: New and Selected Poems By Richard Fein Creative Arts Book Company, 115 pages, $13.95. * * *| I think of our lives — Walt — and they work something like this — At Castle Garden — where you heard Jenny Lind sing — and where my grandparents came through as…
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OUT OF IRAQ: A DOCUMENTARY
Screening some 176 films over seven days at 11 venues, the second Tribeca Film Festival arrives May 7 in downtown Manhattan. With an array of offerings as diverse as the city itself, the festival was started last May in response to the September 11 attacks by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as…
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Jews’ Role Murky As Rebel Banner Drops in Georgia
ATLANTA — Thanks to a last-second compromise reached by lawmakers last week, the state flag of Georgia is about to drop the notorious Confederate battle emblem for the first time in nearly 50 years.. The deal — widely seen as a rebuke of Republican Governor Sonny Perdue — came quickly, catching most observers by surprise….
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The First and Last Drops
A soft rain is falling outside my window. Possibly, it is the last, since this is the time of year when the rains in Israel stop and do not resume until the following autumn. This is why, in the Shemoneh Esreh or “Eighteen Benedictions” prayer recited three times daily, there is a difference of wording…
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Prolific Writer Awarded for Letters to the Editor
Stephen A. Silver knows how to get his name in print. He is the recipient of a media watch group’s Letter Writer of the Year Award because of the dozens of letters he published in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world on behalf of Israel. Silver, who lives in Concord, Calif., is one of…
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For Sale: Strength, Excitement, Songfulness
Long revered as the savior and president of Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern was first and foremost a world-class violinist. Stern — who passed away Sept. 22, 2001, at age 81 — held as his prized possessions a pair of Guarnerius del Gesu violins that were more than 200 years old when he purchased them. As…
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Israeli Ambassador Gets Down to Business at the U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — In the aristocratic world of the United Nations, where diplomats land appointments only after slowly climbing the ranks of their foreign services, Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman is a maverick. Gillerman is no career diplomat. He is a businessman who has agreed to forgo shares and profits for a while and instead fight…
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Marking Israel’s Birthday in Music
Five years ago, singer Noa marked Israeli Independence Day by appearing at a concert in Philadelphia’s CoreState Stadium. Performing with Tony Bennett and opera singer Kathleen Battle, and backed up by the Philadelphia Symphony, she stood before 20,000 cheering guests in tuxedoes and evening gowns. For Noa, it was a night to remember. The optimism…
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