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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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Mitzna Resignation Batters Labor, But Raises Unity Coalition Hopes
JERUSALEM — The sudden resignation of Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna, just six months into his tenure, has opened up possibilities for the formation of a new Likud-Labor national unity government that could advance the Middle East peace process. Coming amid a flurry of post-Iraq diplomatic activity, including the introduction of the “road map” to…
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Must Women Wear Perfume?
Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories By Tikva Frymer-Kensky Schocken Books, 446 pages, $28.95. * * *| Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature By Judith R. Baskin Brandeis University Press, 232 pages, $60. * * *| For a largely androcentric book, the Bible has more stories…
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Movement Creates Shoah Scroll To Ritualize Holocaust Holiday
TORONTO — In a revolutionary attempt to ritualize the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Conservative movement has produced the first-ever formal liturgy for the holiday. Dubbed “Megillat Hashoah” — “The Scroll of the Holocaust” — the document was recited publicly for the first time in North America during an April 29 ceremony here at…
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Wending Through the World of Yidishkayt
Eve Sicular began drumming when she was 8. But it wasn’t until her senior year at Harvard — she got her bachelor’s in Russian history and literature — that she first heard klezmer. She followed the suggestion of a musician friend and checked out the Klezmer Conservancy Band. Her reaction? “Wow!” In 1989, Sicular attended…
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Illinois Senate Candidates Eyeing State’s Jewish Voters
Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes is considered the early favorite for the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed his state’s Republican senator, Peter Fitzgerald, who decided last month not to run for re-election. The son of another popular politician, Hynes, 34, can count on the support of Cook County’s Democratic machine and his own…
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