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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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When ‘All the Rest’ Was the Rage
If all the rest is commentary, as Hillel the Elder once said, there once was a time when “all the rest” was all the rage. It has been 58 years since the founding of Commentary magazine, a small Jewish journal devoted to society and culture that eventually landed in some of the most influential mailboxes…
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Newsdesk March 21, 2003
Doctor Killer Convicted Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp was found guilty Tuesday for the 1998 sniper shooting of a doctor who provided abortions. Kopp faces 15 years to life for shooting Dr. Barnett Slepian. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for May 9. Slepian was killed on a Friday night by a single bullet from a…
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Mideast Tensions Rile Toronto Campus
York University, a suburban Toronto campus with Canada’s largest concentration of Jewish students, is reeling from the “Concordia virus” — the spread of tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students that previously infected Montreal’s Concordia University. Last week, Toronto police briefly arrested, but did not charge, a Jewish student for allegedly uttering a death threat after…
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Backing Israel on Terror, Bush Preps Postwar Push For a Settlement Freeze (Correction)
A March 7 article, “Backing Israel on Terror, Bush Preps Postwar Push For a Settlement Freeze,” mistakenly stated that Israel had suffered no civilian casualties in the two months preceding March 5. Israel had experienced a two-month lull in suicide bombings.
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Energy Unleashed, Oxygen Found: The Dancing of Rotem Tashach
Gender politics figure prominently in the post-modern dance work of the stirring young Israeli choreographer Rotem Tashach. In his new piece, “Nekeva” (a derogatory Hebrew slang for female), which opened yesterday at Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Arts Nexus (W.A.X.), where it will be performed through March 23, the fragility of sexual identity is explored amid a multimedia…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Gleanings From the Media Continental Divide: It’s not just London Bridge that seems to be falling down these days in Europe, judging by articles in several European newspapers translated and reprinted in the April issue of World Press Review. “Europe is cracking,” Leopold Unger writes in the February 11 issue of the liberal Polish daily…
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The Jews of Old-Time Medina
Nathan P. Baker of Walnut Creek, Calif., has a query about the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, the second-holiest site of Islam after Mecca. “I was quite surprised,” he writes, “to learn that it was a Jewish city, called Yathrib, long before the time of Muhammad. Could you furnish me, please, with the dates,…
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A Brooklyn Boy Whose Childhood Dreams Stop Here
It’s a typical morning at Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn. Politicians are meeting and greeting, children are dancing jigs and an impressive amount of Irish coffee is being consumed at 9 a.m. The borough’s stentorious president, Marty Markowitz, a smiling, roly-poly man, is wearing a tall striped hat that seems plucked from the pages of…
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