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Cooking Fried Chicken on the Upper West Side
When Eli Evans’s wife, Judith, gave birth to their son, Josh, at the New York University Medical Center, Eli held a vial filled with North Carolina dirt in one hand and Judith’s hand in the other. “I did not want him to be born altogether a Yankee. I wanted him to feel some sort of…
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Newsdesk April 25, 2003
JCC CFO Pleads Guilty A Florida woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $20,000 from a Jewish community center where she was chief financial officer. Wendi Korb, 37, was placed on probation and must pay $25,000 to the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Palm Beaches immediately, and $45,000 more during the next 10 years….
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In War Time, Talking to Kids About the Shoah
In a meeting to discuss this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations, the staff psychologist of the Rashi School in Newton, Mass., told the Reform day school’s teachers to “remember that we are in a different world,” according to Shlomit Lipton, Rashi’s interim head. Talking to children about the Holocaust is never easy. But it may…
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Search for Hillel Director Seen Drawing to a Close (Correction)
An April 18 article, “Search for Hillel Director Seen Drawing to a Close,” incorrectly named Joseph Kohane as a candidate to become Hillel’s next president and international director. Kohane, executive director of the Wexner Jewish Student Center for the Ohio State University Hillel, declined an invitation to be considered for the presidential position.
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Lost Birth Certificate Reveals David Ben-Gurion’s Twin
Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a twin brother who died soon after birth, according to a document recently found in Plonsk, Poland, his native town. The document — a birth certificate — was given last week to the head of Ramat Hanegev Regional Council, Shmuel Rifman. Rifman was visiting Plonsk with a youth…
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Pipes Seam: The recent nomination of Daniel Pipes to the board of the quasi-governmental United States Institute of Peace sparked a battle of pens between Beltway and Big Apple editorialists, with trench lines being drawn around the conservative Middle East scholar’s belief in the militancy of Muslim Americans. “The Bush administration has spent the past…
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Diplomats From 40 Nations Dine, Sing ‘Dayenu’ at Seder
“This is about as ecumenical as it gets,” master of ceremonies Alan King said at the April 4 festive Boys’ Town of Italy “Ball of the Year” at the Waldorf-Astoria. “They needed laughs, so they hired two Jews,” joshed King, referring to himself and gala chairman Billy Crystal. “I was present at Billy’s bris,” King…
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In a Time of War, Runner Ties a Yellow Ribbon
Deena Drossin is one of the fastest women on earth. She’s the fastest female marathoner in American history. She’s considered the American distance runner with the best shot at winning a medal at next year’s summer Olympics in Athens. For now, though, the color she runs for is yellow — the color of the ribbon…
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Azazel, the Scapegoat
Jed stands with the Shabbos congregation, mutters the Amidah by heart while steeling himself for the upcoming Kaddish. He looks over at the Gutmans in the front row, their boy a bar mitzvah today. A good boy, who answered the rabbi’s questions correctly, recited the rules for laying our sins upon Azazel the goat, sending…
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On Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary, A Pole Calls for Understanding
The proud and beautiful city of New York is known worldwide as one of the most important centers of the Jewish Diaspora. In fact, nowadays it is true to say that it is the most important city in the entire world. But as a Pole who lives and was born in Poland’s capital city, Warsaw,…
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Behind Warnings to Damascus: Reassessment of Younger Assad
A sudden flurry of U.S. warnings to Syria in recent days indicates that Washington has undertaken what Israel and its supporters here have been urging for months: a comprehensive reassessment of Syrian ruler Bashar Assad. In the past two weeks, while U.S. troops were taking control of neighboring Iraq, a string of top American officials…
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