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Lectures and Discussions New Voices: The JCC in Manhattan’s “Rough Cut” writers’ reading series presents Risa Miller and Suzan Sherman. Miller’s debut novel, “Welcome to Heavenly Heights,” tells the story of a family living in a settlement outside of Jerusalem that feels compelled to fight to maintain Jewish possession of their land. Sherman is working…
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U.S. Favors Small Team To Monitor Road Map Progress
The Bush administration is finalizing plans to send a team of monitors to verify the implementation by Israel and the Palestinians of the “road map” peace plan. The size and composition of that team, though, is a source of disagreement. While the administration appears ready to settle on a small CIA team, as Israel would…
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A DANCE IN EIGHT COLORS
A colorful new dance from the Neta Dance Company brings to life a fictional young woman pieced together from documentary-style reminiscences in the quirky and original “Rainbow Girl.” The full-length work, making its world premiere at the Flea Theater, was choreographed and directed by Neta Pulvermacher, who was born and raised on Israel’s Kibbutz Lehavot…
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In Post-Saddam Middle East, Now Is the Time for a Separated Peace
While it is still too early for an accurate assessment of how America’s toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq will change the Middle East, one thing is certain: The strategic landscape in the region has changed significantly, and is inexorably on course to further change. From Israel’s regional perspective, Iraq has been eliminated as…
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Not Your Father’s Klezmer –– But Neither Was His
Klezmer music is like pornography and spirituality: Everyone knows it when they hear it, but few agree upon just what it is. The funny thing is, klezmer hasn’t been around very long. As a term describing a musical genre, klezmer is a relatively recent coinage, only dating back to about 1980. At the beginning of…
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No Discussion Of Settlements, Diplomats Say
WASHINGTON — Despite the road map’s requirement of Israeli steps toward a settlement construction freeze, Israel and the United States have not held any detailed discussions of the steps that would be involved in such a move, senior Israeli diplomatic sources said. American administration sources confirmed the Israeli account. The text of the “road map”…
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Making the Heart Seize
Each piece at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit, “Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions,” encourages a kind of absorbed study and many of them, once surrendered to, deliver a real emotional wallop. This is refreshing. Many of us are left cold by contemporary art, which can seem antiseptic, broody, narcissistic. But among the pieces on display through July…
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U.K. Looks Inward as Its Boys Turn Up as Suicide Bombers
LONDON — The disclosure that two British citizens were involved in a Tel Aviv suicide attack has come as a shock to Britain. It has not, however, come as a surprise for British Jews. “I think we are saddened but not surprised,” said Henry Grunwald, president-elect of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the…
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Hash Heads
Aaron Demsky writes from Ramat Gan, Israel: Apropos of your [April 11] piece entitled “Thugs and Bandits,” perhaps you might want to discuss the word “assassin,” too. A fascinating word, indeed, “assassin” — and one that, though its history goes back nearly a thousand years, relates to today’s headlines in some interesting ways. “Assassin” comes…
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White House Is Aiming To Raise Iranian Nukes At U.N. Security Council
In a possible softening of its attitude toward the United Nations, the Bush administration has decided to bring the issue of Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council. While it bypassed the world body to deal with Iraq militarily and is trying to handle North Korea’s recently revealed nuclear capability through regional talks, the…
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PSALM 151
Jane Hirshfield lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, “in a small white house surrounded by fruit trees and old roses,” she told the Forward. But she was born in New York City and educated at Princeton University. An extraordinary editor, translator and essayist, Hirshfield is the author of five books of poetry, including, most…
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