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SCHOLAR IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Jewish Theological Seminary marks the inauguration of its first endowed chair in Yiddish literature with an inaugural address by the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, David Roskies, “In Praise of Yiddish Parody”; remarks by author Cynthia Ozick, and a performance by Yiddish chanteuse Adrienne Cooper and pianist Zalmen Mlotek of the…
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Hearing To Probe Pol’s Denial That Nazis Persecuted Gays
The Minnesota state legislature is set to hold an ethics hearing next week concerning one Republican member’s repeated claims that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Democrats will argue in front of the ethics committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives that State Rep. Arlon Lindner should be censured over what they say is…
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Kishinev 1903: The Birth of a Century
One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish history. Provoked by a medieval blood libel, flashed around the globe by modern communications, Kishinev was the last pogrom of…
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SEPHARDIC SOUNDS OF NOTE WASHINGTON, D.C.
Moroccan-born Aaron Bensoussan and Gerard Edery raise their voices with the Greek Alberto Mizrahi as the Sons of Sepharad — to the notes of oudist George Mgrdichian and percussionist Rex Benincasa — for a lineup of Sephardic songs in Ladino, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic that kicks off the fourth annual Washington Jewish Music Festival. The…
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Newsdesk April 4, 2003
FBI Seeks Out Arab Community FBI Director Robert Mueller has directed his field offices to establish contacts with local Muslim and Arab activists, in order to encourage the reporting of hate-crime victims, and to promote cultural sensitivity and tolerance. In Washington, the FBI’s field office last week established the first Arab-American Advisory Committee, to be…
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Questioning the Myth of Passivity
Boris Sandler, editor of the Yiddish Forward, is the author of “Nothing Is New Under the Sun,” a novel based on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, which is currently being translated into English. Sandler, 53, was born in Belz and educated in Kishinev, where he took up Yiddish journalism in the 1980s. He recently spoke…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Pre-Passover A Head Start on the Haggada: Get yourself into the celebratory spirit of Passover with the Israel-America Foundation’s “Passover ‘Pre-Seder’ Program,” supporting Clalit Health. The full-course glatt kosher meal — with wine, of course — is accompanied by services conducted by Rabbi Paul Levenson, aka the guitar-playing rabbi, as well as musician David Gordon…
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Push for Evangelical Ties Splits Crowd
ATLANTA — Reviews were mixed in the heart of the New South, as 300 people packed a posh hotel ballroom to hear a pitch from two leading proponents of stronger ties between Jews and Evangelical Christians. Of the two main speakers, it was the baby-faced Republican and Christian leader, Ralph Reed, who seemed most intent…
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Ghost-Painting Grandfather’s Story To Understand His Own
In May 2000, I traveled to Kosovo with a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to work with Albanian Kosovar mental health professionals from the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the University of Prishtina. The goal was to help develop a public mental-health approach that could foster strength and resilience in the Kosovar families. Spring arrived that…
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FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BATTLEFIELD
Today’s “embedded” war correspondents are by no means the first to file from the front lines. Photographer Robert Capa (1913-1954) stood shoulder to shoulder with the rank and file in war after war, capturing on film the deaths, despair and surprising dignity found in trenches and on battlefields. With “Robert Capa: In Love and War”…
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Few Large Donations Go to Jewish Causes
Jewish philanthropists may be more generous than other Americans at cutting supersized checks to charities, according to a new study, but they give mere pennies on the dollar of their largest donations to Jewish causes. The study, titled Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy, found that among the 865 Americans who awarded a single grant of $10…
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