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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who has positioned himself as the most antiwar of the top Democratic presidential contenders, is insisting that he did not mean to cast aspersions on the New York metropolitan area — or its Jews — when he called the region “hawkish” in remarks to a Southern newspaper. “The most hawkish…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Passover Roundup Russian Style: Russian-speaking families from the former Soviet Union are invited to join members of HaTsad HaRishon, or the First Step Program, for a first-night Seder. The Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, 7802 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn; $7, $25 families, reservations required. (718-331-6800, ext. 19) For the Children: “Seder Surprise:…
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National Population Survey Postponed — Again
The National Jewish Population Survey, the $6 million study whose release was postponed last November so that its methods could be reviewed, has been postponed again for a second review. The new delay means that the survey, commissioned by United Jewish Communities and originally set for completion in 2000, will not be published for at…
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ZOA Protests Campus Speaking Engagements by Tutu
The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the…
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MAX FERGUSON’S NEW YORK
Max Ferguson is, without a doubt, a New York realist, choosing the city’s sights as his subjects for detailed depiction. An exhibit opens this week at the ACA Galleries that includes several of his recent paintings, including “Wonder Wheel” (2002) and “My Father at Coney Island (Skee Ball)” (2002). Ferguson is well-known for his works…
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Minnesota Ethics Case Turns Into Shoah History Lesson
ST. PAUL — The ethics committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives met this week to hear the case of a Republican colleague under fire for repeatedly suggesting that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Part history lesson, part political circus, the hearing featured testimony from a wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor and calls of “kangaroo…
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Plunging From Ecstasy to Ecstasy
If music is to reflect the world, believed composer Stefan Wolpe, it must grip the listener with its life-and-death struggle. As a result, Wolpe’s work is not music for light enjoyment. Far from being pretty or tuneful, his music is obstreperous and ferociously in-your-face argumentative, reflecting a bracing anger that has drawn the devotion of…
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Report: 3.3 Million Dead in Africa’s Bloodiest Conflict
An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group. The International Rescue Committee report said that about 85% of the deaths were from hunger and…
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Drawing Peace In the Middle East
The worst-kept secret of the comic book industry of the last six decades has been the genre’s Jewish subtext. Call it the superheroes’ secret Jewish identities, going back to a couple of ghetto kids in pre-World War II Cleveland who created Superman as an updated Golem. Now, the masks are off. Marvel Enterprises, the giant…
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For Jewish Soldiers, Base Is Lonely Place
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Since getting the call to leave Long Island and fly to an army base somewhere in the Midwestern corn belt, where she’s in final combat training exercises before heading to Iraq, Specialist Joanna Cohen has had plenty of time to meet the other Jewish soldiers stationed with her — all three…
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Exodus Is Illuminated
The walled city of Israeli artist Avner Moriah’s new illuminated Haggada looks less like a Middle Eastern capital and more like a medieval Tuscan town. The cover features Jerusalem’s Old City, hovering in space against a black background. Surrounding the cluster of towers and red-roofed houses is a sand-colored wall, delineating a graceful ark as…
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