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Newsdesk February 28, 2003
AMIA Indictments Sought Prosecutors are asking the judge in charge of investigating into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires to issue arrest warrants against 16 people, including Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyeh. The move by the prosecutors was seen by observers as…
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‘Golems’ in G-Minor
Novelist Thane Rosenbaum and klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals will appear at the 92nd Street Y March 5 for a performance of the music that helped inspire Rosenbaum’s 2002 novel, “The Golems of Gotham” (now out in paperback from Harperperennial). Svigals, a founding member of the Klezmatics, will play Ariel, the book’s 14-year-old street-performing violin prodigy,…
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Policy Body Nixes Reform’s Call for Two-State Solution
BALTIMORE — The Jewish Council for Public Affairs plenum solidly rejected a bid by the Reform movement’s Union of American Hebrew Congregations Monday to pass a resolution supporting President Bush’s call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The vote was 340 to 308. Language proposed by the Reform movement on Israeli settlement policy…
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The Luck of the Yiddish
If you look up “translate” in a dictionary, you may be surprised to find that the first definition is “to bring into the afterlife, without causing death.” This isn’t as peculiar as it sounds. The rabbis teach us that our world is like a vestibule, a waiting room where we prepare ourselves for the World…
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Reform Rabbis Asking Temples To Fund Outreach Jobs
A showdown over budget cuts is brewing between the congregational arm of the Reform movement and several prominent Reform rabbis, who charge that the nation’s largest liberal Jewish denomination is crippling its outreach to intermarried families. A number of rabbis have initiated grass-roots fundraising efforts to save the jobs of the movement’s 13 regional outreach…
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Secrets of the City
CHAPTER 64: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND In Chapter 63, Ruth and Augusta exchanged confidences over cocktails. Brooke had an appointment with a divorce lawyer, an old law school classmate of Jacob’s, and she wanted a serious outfit, perhaps a gray suit with a white satin blouse, for their first meeting. She had not…
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JTS Scholar To Argue for New Views on Gay Rabbi Ban
A leading Conservative scholar, scheduled to speak at an event sponsored by a gay rights group at the movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, is expected to argue that community norms can determine Jewish law. In an interview with the Forward, Judith Hauptman, a professor of Talmud at JTS, said that her theory — coming amidst intensifying…
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When Empty Nesters Go Looking for God
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., Gennye Feldman, along with her mother and her four siblings, kept kosher, ate Sabbath dinner on Fridays and drove to services at their Conservative synagogue every weekend. “Judaism was definitely a core part of our family values,” Gennye, a 28-year-old marketing manager, told the Forward. Now a young adult living…
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Animal Rights Group Invokes Holocaust
Matt Prescott believes there is another holocaust happening today in America — against cows and chickens. Prescott, 21, is the youth outreach coordinator at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and is one of the brains behind “Holocaust on Your Plate,” an exhibit of posters that pairs images of soon-to-be slaughtered animals with photographs…
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Designer Molly Stern Trots Out Garb for Bodies Botticelli Favored
When 30-year-old fashion entrepreneur Molly Stern was still a teenager, her boyfriend took her to a museum to gawk at the Botticelli paintings. “That’s your body,” he told the cute, curvy pubescent girl. “They’ve been painting you for centuries.” Of course, most Jewish women who can’t squeeze their hips into a pair of made-for-shiksas slim-fit…
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Why Middle East ‘Marshall Plan Ignores Real Roots of Terrorism
Earlier this month the Forward reported that House member and presidential candidate Richard Gephardt called for a new “Marshall Plan” for the Middle East because, as he said, “terrorism is rooted in poverty and tyranny.” The Missouri Democrat emphasized American economic assistance, public diplomacy and a democracy corps as the cure for what ails the…
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