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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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Chief Rabbi Pick Opposed on Corruption, Abuse Charges
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Supreme Court has been asked to block the installation of the nation’s newly elected Ashkenazic chief rabbi, because of allegations that include incompetence, extorting money from marrying couples, forging signatures on marriage contracts and sexual abuse of women and boys. The rabbi, Yona Metzger, currently a neighborhood rabbi in northern Tel…
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Exhibit Sheds Light on Nazi Suppression Of Free Speech
WASHINGTON — For the past decade, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has focused on the Nazi campaign to persecute and murder Europe’s Jews. But this week, the museum marked its 10th anniversary by opening an exhibition on a topic that is not explicitly and specifically Jewish: Hitler’s war on free thought and free speech….
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Nursing Babies, Anxiety Too
The subject of breast-feeding turns people into sputtering loons. At one end of the spectrum, there are the militant nursing activists (unfortunately known in mom circles as “breast-feeding Nazis”), who insist that women who choose not to nurse are selfish, lazy, weak and ignorant. They pooh-pooh stories about plugged ducts, pain and bleeding. They claim…
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Strike Shuts Down Government Services
About 700,000 public-sector workers, including more than 200,000 teachers, launched a nationwide strike this week effectively shutting down almost all government services offered by the state. The strike, which began Wednesday, was called to protest the government’s introduction of legislation that would cut $2.35 billion from Israel’s $56 billion state budget, on top of a…
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