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Survivors’ Groups Decry Plan for Fund Disbursement
Plans for the disbursement of a Holocaust-related humanitarian fund established by German insurance companies are drawing fire from American groups of Holocaust survivors, as well as Israeli officials. At issue is a proposal, endorsed by the fund’s administrator, to use as much as one-fifth of the $165 million fund for Holocaust education and other purposes…
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Shavuot is a great holiday. There’s no fasting and no scouring the house for crumbs. All of its customs are fun ones: You decorate with flowers, eat cheesecake and stay up past your bedtime. It’s sort of like Jewish graduation night, only without the spiked punch and bad DJ. That’s not to say it’s all…
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Bombing Suspect Tied to Antisemitic Sect
Eric Rudolph, the American white supremacist arrested last weekend for four bombings, including an attack at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was apparently motivated by an antisemitic ideology known as Christian Identity. Rudolph, 36, also wrote a paper espousing Holocaust denial while in high school. Although it is unknown whether Rudolph considers himself a formal…
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Floral Arrangements Make Shavuot Memorable
Mount Sinai Memo Board Good craft glue 16 x 20-inch cork bulletin board 16 x 20-inch piece of AstroTurf (available at hardware stores) Push pins 12 silk flowers 12 straight pins Spread lots of glue all over the cork surface of the bulletin board and the back of the AstroTurf. Place AstroTurf on bulletin board,…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
A prominent Florida Democrat is challenging remarks made by Republican Rep. Mark Foley, who has been blaming Democrats for spreading rumors that he is gay. “It’s my understanding that a lot of the rumors about Rep. Foley were not generated by Democrats, but by the extreme right faction of the Republican Party in Florida,” said…
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The Truth About Tatele: Fatherhood Is Very Sexy
Jonathan owns bedtime. The ritual’s always the same. He holds Josie upside down so that she can pat the kitty good night. He changes her diaper and puts her clothes in the laundry bag. “What’s this?” he asks as he holds up her yogurt-stained shirt. She proudly yells, “Launny!” Then he puts eczema cream on…
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Cafe Talk: Aharon Appelfeld on Finding Peace Amid the Violence
JERUSALEM — Undeterred by the almost nonstop suicide bombings in Israel, Aharon Appelfeld, the acclaimed novelist, refuses to abandon a long-held, central part of his daily life as a writer: the cafe. “Why should I be afraid? All these years I’ve sat in cafes and worked — that’s my love,” Appelfeld told the Forward in…
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Investigation Into Ethics Violations Considered
JERUSALEM — Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein is considering calling for a police investigation of Likud Knesset members suspected of double-voting for the economic austerity plan passed by the Knesset last week. Rubinstein discussed the issue on Tuesday with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, who has filed a complaint with the Knesset ethics committee against one of…
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Soros Gets Boos for Using YIVO Stage as Political Platform
It was “Budapest at the Pierre [Hotel]” for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s May 13 benefit dinner honoring architect Moshe Safdie and Imre Kertész, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature. As Hungarian musicians and dancers entertained, diplomats from Hungary, Austria and Lithuania and 470 YIVO guests (who raised $1 million to sustain…
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Lieberman: Jews Should Overcome Anxieties
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman has some advice for the nervous folks in the Jewish community who say the country is not ready for his presidential candidacy. “I urge those in the Jewish community who are anxious about it to have faith in America. I do,” Lieberman told the Forward in a telephone interview. A number…
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Israeli Rabbi Indicted for Inciting Racism
JERUSALEM — Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein decided this week to indict Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburgh, a controversial West Bank settler activist and a leader in the Lubavitch chasidic community, for incitement to racism. Rubinstein’s decision followed a police investigation launched in response to a formal complaint by Jerusalem attorney David Schonberg. Schonberg charged that Ginzburgh’s book…
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