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Minnesota Ethics Case Turns Into Shoah History Lesson
ST. PAUL — The ethics committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives met this week to hear the case of a Republican colleague under fire for repeatedly suggesting that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Part history lesson, part political circus, the hearing featured testimony from a wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor and calls of “kangaroo…
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Plunging From Ecstasy to Ecstasy
If music is to reflect the world, believed composer Stefan Wolpe, it must grip the listener with its life-and-death struggle. As a result, Wolpe’s work is not music for light enjoyment. Far from being pretty or tuneful, his music is obstreperous and ferociously in-your-face argumentative, reflecting a bracing anger that has drawn the devotion of…
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Report: 3.3 Million Dead in Africa’s Bloodiest Conflict
An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group. The International Rescue Committee report said that about 85% of the deaths were from hunger and…
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Drawing Peace In the Middle East
The worst-kept secret of the comic book industry of the last six decades has been the genre’s Jewish subtext. Call it the superheroes’ secret Jewish identities, going back to a couple of ghetto kids in pre-World War II Cleveland who created Superman as an updated Golem. Now, the masks are off. Marvel Enterprises, the giant…
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For Jewish Soldiers, Base Is Lonely Place
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Since getting the call to leave Long Island and fly to an army base somewhere in the Midwestern corn belt, where she’s in final combat training exercises before heading to Iraq, Specialist Joanna Cohen has had plenty of time to meet the other Jewish soldiers stationed with her — all three…
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Exodus Is Illuminated
The walled city of Israeli artist Avner Moriah’s new illuminated Haggada looks less like a Middle Eastern capital and more like a medieval Tuscan town. The cover features Jerusalem’s Old City, hovering in space against a black background. Surrounding the cluster of towers and red-roofed houses is a sand-colored wall, delineating a graceful ark as…
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Alleged Kurdish-Jewish Links Stir Turkish Conspiracy Theories
The war in Iraq has ended, and the Kurds in the country’s north emerge as one of the war’s great victors, liberating themselves from Saddam Hussein’s oppressive rule and declaring an independent state. To the world’s surprise, it turns out that one of the Kurds’ top leaders is actually Jewish and that, as a result,…
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Love’s Labor’s Lost
On November 27, 1937, Broadway patrons were serenaded with “Sing Me a Song of Social Significance,” the hit song from the labor movement-inspired musical “Pins and Needles.” Although no major New York press critics attended the opening — they would show up in dribs and drabs over the next three months — “Pins and Needles”…
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Dishing the Dirt on Fashion Industry: Fact or Fiction?
This week, the critical, expertly lined eyes of the fashion elite will be trained on Lauren Weisberger. It’s not because Weisberger is tall, blond and happens to look great in a pair of slim-fitting Seven jeans. She has found fame not with her model-good looks, but by taking a page from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola…
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Of Thugs and Bandits
‘A bunch of thugs,” General Tommy Franks has called the irregular forces fighting against the coalition army in Iraq. The Iraqi regime and much of the Muslim world, on the other hand, calls them shuhada, “martyrs,” and feda’in, “redeemers” or “self-sacrificers,” i.e., Islamic commandos. This is hardly the first time in history that irregulars have…
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Changing the Tune: Klezmatics Settle A Violinist’s Sex-Discrimination Suit (Correction)
Due to editorial error, a March 28 article, “Changing the Tune: Klezmatics Settle A Violinist’s Sex-Discrimination Suit,” inadvertently represented as fact certain contested assertions made by Alicia Svigals in the legal dispute between the Klezmatics and their former violinist. These assertions, unrefuted in the article, stated the position of one of the parties in the…
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