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Even Now: Daring To Make a Difference
No matter one’s politics, the seemingly inexorable trajectory of world events has engulfed us all of late. Those opposing a U.S. assault upon Iraq have felt particularly powerless. Even those supportive of military engagement can hardly feel sanguine about the unpredictable series of events that will play themselves out in upcoming weeks and months. March…
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U.N. Envoy Views Window of Opportunity for Peace
UNITED NATIONS — Events in Washington and the Middle East have conspired to create a “window of opportunity” to put the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track for the first time in two-and-half years, the United Nations special Middle East envoy told the Forward. Three factors make the current moment ripe for progress, said the…
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Learning To Make and Accept Judgment
The priest stands with his two sons, engaged in the act of sacrifice — the aim: to propitiate divine anger and achieve the best possible conditions for his nation. Then, in an astounding act of sudden, celestial judgment, the two sons are brutally slain. The father is devastated. Why were the sons of Aaron struck…
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Cartoon Stirs Protests on Maryland Campus
The University of Maryland’s student newspaper is under fire for publishing a cartoon accusing an American student activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer earlier this month of “stupidity.” University administrators and student protesters have blasted the decision of The Diamondback to publish a cartoon March 18 ridiculing Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist with the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 28, 2003
Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) was known as “the sweatshop poet.” With the sewing machine providing a whirring obbligato, he sat at his station composing verse about the life of the worker in the apparel industry — his life in the shop and his life at home. On the occasion of Rosenfeld’s 80th yahrzeit, the Forverts devoted…
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Secrets of the City
A SERIALIZED NOVEL By Anne Roiphe CHAPTER 68: THE FINAL CHAPTER * * *| This is the final installment of Anne Roiphe’s serialized novel, “Secrets of the City,” which can be found online at www.forward.com. A hardcover version of the novel will be published in October by Random House’s Shaye Areheart Books imprint. In Chapter…
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Coleman Bucks White House on Drilling
Minnesota’s new senator, Norm Coleman, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the Senate, raised eyebrows last week when he bucked the party line to vote against President Bush’s proposal to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Coleman is considered something of a protégé of Bush and his chief political strategist Karl…
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Bush Plans To Privatize the Rebuilding of Iraq
Although the war in Iraq is not yet over, it appears that our ever-provident president already has a set of ideas on how to rebuild the land once ruled by Saddam Hussein. A recent Wall Street Journal headline proclaims: “Bush Has an Audacious Plan To Rebuild Iraq Within a Year.” The Journal comments: “The U.S….
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Conservatives Taking a Page From Orthodox Prayer Book
Spurred in large part by the growing popularity of an Orthodox publisher, leaders of Conservative Judaism are set to release the movement’s first prayer book with extensive built-in commentary. Movement rabbis acknowledge that a main impetus for commissioning the new commentary, titled “Or Hadash” and set to be released April 15, was the growing phenomenon…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Former Colorado senator Gary Hart certainly looks like he’s serious about running for president. Hart, who has been giving foreign policy addresses around the nation as he tests the waters for a run, appeared at the Westchester County (N.Y.) Democratic Committee’s gala dinner March 20, where he spoke briefly about the war in Iraq. There…
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MORE THAN CHILD’S PLAY
Inspired by the life of doctor, teacher and author Janusz Korczak (1879-1942), Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Korczak’s Children” is a play about and for children, based in part upon the orphanage Korczak founded in 1912, which was moved to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Korczak’s ideas about children’s empowerment would help lay the foundation for…
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