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No Simple Answer
‘The best kashe is kasha with gravy,” goes an old pun about the Passover Seder’s Four Questions, which are known in Yiddish as the fier kashes — a pun based on the word kashe in Yiddish meaning both buckwheat grits and a question. And yet a kashe is not an ordinary question. If you ask…
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Sharon Aide Makes the Case For U.S. Action Against Syria
WASHINGTON — Breaking the self-imposed silence it maintained during the buildup to the war with Iraq and throughout the war itself, Israel publicly called on the United States this week to take decisive action against Syria and Iran. Making the case in Washington was Ephraim Halevy, Prime Minister Sharon’s national security advisor, who formerly headed…
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FLASH FRAMES
The Dialogues of Time and Entropy By Aryeh Lev Stollman Riverhead, 208 pages, $24.95. —— The new story collection by Aryeh Lev Stollman demonstrates the power of narrative to reveal the complexity, pain and beauty of human experience. Some of the stories illuminate, like flashes of lightning, the strong forces that persist beneath the apparently…
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Jewish Organizations Try To Block Al Jazeera in Canada
TORONTO — Jewish groups are fighting to keep the Al-Jazeera television network off the air in Canada. Calling the Qatar-based network “antisemitic,” the Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai Brith Canada are opposing efforts by an association of the country’s largest cable companies to broadcast Al-Jazeera. The Canadian Cable Television Association applied earlier this month to…
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Retiring to the City That Never Sleeps
Judy Goldman was restless. Goldman, 65, had spent most of her life in Houston, where she raised her family, but after her husband died in 1989 and her children went off to college, Goldman wasn’t sure how to fill her days. She went back to school to become a registered nurse, but she found the…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
The presidential campaign of the Rev. Al Sharpton has yet to post any first-quarter contribution filing, but that’s okay, according to Sharpton’s chief strategist. “Why do political candidates raise money? To get their message out and energize voters. My candidate starts with that as his greatest strength,” the strategist, New York consultant Roberto Ramirez, told…
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Television: The Golden Calf of Home
Elmo can kiss my tukhes. So can Baby Bear (the TV character with the most grating speech impediment since Cindy Brady), Telly (such a chaleria, he makes me anxious), Zoe (the semi-new female puppet who is so insipid, she’s furry tokenism in action) and Count von Count (whose voice, after the death of his original…
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WELCOME TO WASHINGTON
Senate Approves ‘Faith-Based’ Bill The Senate last week passed an amended version of the Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act, a bill that encourages charitable donations to faith-based organizations by offering donors tax breaks and other incentives. Ninety-five senators backed the bill. Only five were opposed. The bill, which is the legislative centerpiece of…
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Can New Agers Channel the Old Rebbes’ Spirit?
‘We are the heirs of the chasidism that would have been created by all the rebbes who were killed in the Holocaust,” Daniel Siegel told the 200 Jewish spiritual seekers who gathered last month for the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan’s “Awakening, Yearning and Renewal: A Conference on the Hasidic Roots of Contemporary Jewish Spiritual…
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Schools Chief Boosts Christian Values
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Education Rod Paige is refusing to resign or even apologize for comments he made in an interview praising schools that teach Christian values over public schools. In an interview published earlier this month in the Baptist Press, a news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, Paige said: “All things equal, I…
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Rabbis’ Rules on Rice
Every year as Passover approaches I wonder why there are so many different points of view about what is acceptable to eat over the holiday. This year I’m asking Wendy: Why can’t I eat rice on Passover? — Sorting the chaff An accident of birth — or your ancestors’ birth, to be more precise —…
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