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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 4, 2003
December, inaugurating the world’s first entirely kosher Caribbean cruise. While in recent years, more and more cruise ships have specialized in trips offering frozen glatt kosher food or a separate kosher dining room, Shollar’s Chosen Voyage is to be the first luxury ship to be made entirely kosher, from bow to stern. For five weeks…
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Foxhole Mitzvah: Ranking Rabbi Heads to Front
With a gentle voice, a doughy, pleasant face and a knit yarmulke atop thinning brown hair, Mitchell Ackerson is a sort of Every Man’s Rabbi. Except for the camouflage uniform, that is. The senior chaplain for the 220th Military Police Brigade and, incidentally, the senior rabbi of the army’s entire combat theater, Ackerson sat March…
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Netanyahu’s Austerity Plan Comes Under Fire From Labor Groups
JERUSALEM — Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Israel is teetering on the edge of an economic abyss and desperately needs an emergency rescue plan. His critics counter that his proposed cure, a stiff austerity package mixed with hefty doses of tax-cutting and privatization, is worse than the illness and will ultimately plunge the country…
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The Analyses of Acute Diagnostic Minds
This week’s portion, Tazria, is concerned with purity and contamination. It contains many passages along these lines: And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head… the priest shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it yellow thin hair,…
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Of Noteworthy Items in the Press Noam Echad: As a child, he summered at Camp Massad in the Poconos, where he organized Zionist youth groups and wooed his future wife with his fluency in Hebrew. He developed an analysis of modern Hebrew grammar for his undergraduate and master’s thesis. And he and his wife seriously…
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Israeli Budget Cuts May Leave New Immigrants Without Homes
The Jewish Agency for Israel is arguing that Israel’s new austerity plan would cut immigration absorption programs so drastically as to discourage aliya and prevent needy arrivals from ever leaving absorption centers. The chief complaint of new immigrants to Israel, or olim, and their advocates is the government’s plan to cease grants awarded to every…
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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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