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Voucher Fight Shifts From High Court to State Houses
WASHINGTON — Activists on both sides of the debate over school vouchers are gearing up for a state-by-state battle in courts and legislatures nationwide. Observers attribute the rapidly expanding battleground to the Supreme Court’s decision last June permitting the use of government-funded vouchers to pay for parochial school tuition. The newest front in the policy…
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Plan for Ethiopian Immigrants Collapses
Ethiopian activists and their allies are waging a multi-front protest against the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency for Israel and several American Jewish philanthropies. Thousands of demonstrators in Jerusalem this week pitched tents outside the prime minister’s office to protest the apparent collapse of a 4-month-old government plan to bring more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians…
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As Tech Bust Lingers, Shuls Find a New Role: Job Bank
OAKLAND, Calif. — Finding work never used to be a problem for Owen Rubin. A computer engineer, he worked for Atari and Pacific Bell before being handpicked by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to join a high-tech research firm. He went from there to a string of hot start-ups. Then suddenly, in April 2002, after 25…
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Mideast Peace Plan Gets Surprising Push
WASHINGTON — As Israel debated in recent weeks whether to endorse the American-led “road map” peace initiative, Jerusalem and its allies in the United States received a surprising push — from Elliott Abrams, the National Security Council’s senior director for Near East and North African affairs. Before joining the security council six months ago, Abrams,…
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Bush Quietly Supports U.N. Force To Stop Congo Massacre
UNITED NATIONS — After going to war in Iraq without the United Nations’ backing, the Bush administration is quietly supporting the idea of sending a U.N.-mandated multinational force to try to stop the unfolding disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire. The U.N. Security Council agreed in principle this week to…
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‘The Old Man and the New President’: Ben-Gurion and Kennedy at the Waldorf
The following is an excerpt from “Support Any Friend,” by Warren Bass. When Kennedy met Ben-Gurion on May 30 [1961] at the Waldorf, the new president’s tone was different from his predecessor’s. Where Eisenhower had bluntly refused, Kennedy merely hesitated. The arguments about the Hawks were similar — indeed, sometimes identical — but the underlying…
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Sharon Battling To Save Plan From Right’s Blows
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Sharon was scrambling this week to head off a civil war within his Likud party after his embrace of the American-sponsored “road map” to Middle East peace left supporters accusing him of giving in to pressure and endangering Israel’s future. Sharon astounded the Israeli political community by securing Cabinet approval for…
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A New Twist on Interfaith Marriage
Choreographer Mariana Bekerman has perennially encountered multicultural intermixing and the xenophobia that accompanies it. Of Russian Jewish parentage, Bekerman attended high school in the checkered quilt called Queens, then later choreographed shows in Mexico for resorts. So it’s not a surprise that she concocted a dance-theater piece about the clash and fusion of ethnicity in…
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A Fabulous Friendship
Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance By Warren Bass Oxford University, 336 pages, $30 * * *| President John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural address, declared that the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, [and] oppose any foe to…
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A Mamita for the Hebrews, and Everyone Else
‘My work is definitely not just for Jewish people,” says 32-year-old spoken-word-poet/actor/dramatist Vanessa Hidary, better known as the “Hebrew Mamita.” “Most of my performances are in front of non-Jews — that’s where my work can make a difference.” Though she may have been raised on the Upper West Side, Hidary is in fact better known…
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Justice, Guardian of Liberty
In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society sponsored a lecture series on the five Jewish Justices from Louis D. Brandeis to Abe Fortas. Absent from the series was an account of the man who might have preceded Brandeis by some 63 years as the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, Judah P. Benjamin….
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