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Israel Aided FBI in Probe of Suspected Terror Leader
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is being accused of putting politics ahead of policy for dismissing a Secret Service notice and welcoming terrorism suspect Sami Al-Arian into the White House complex for a June 2001 meeting. Al-Arian, a Florida professor indicted last week for his alleged role as a leader of a Palestinian Islamic terrorist…
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Two Cheers for Daled
Forward reader Michael Katz writes: In a recent piece of yours, you referred to the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet as daled. I believe that the correct spelling is dalet, with the Hebrew letter tav as the word’s last consonant. I wonder why it is that Ashkenazim, who traditionally pronounce the final tav of…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Networks of Old: National Jewish Book Award-winner Seth Schwartz (“Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 BCE-640 CE”) discusses “Charity, Friendship and Social Relations Among the Ancient Jews” in the inaugural Gerson D. Cohen Memorial lecture, endowed by Stephen Axinn, who founded the Gerson D. Cohen Chair in Rabbinic Culture in tribute to his…
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THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Of Noteworthy Items in the Press A Certain People: If the Reformation was a giant oyster, were the Jews the irritant around which grew the pearl known as the Enlightenment? One professor seems to think so. In its February 28 issue, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the “highly anticipated” first book by 33-year-old…
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Filmmaker Tries To Tell Africans’ Tale in Their Own Voice
Empathy for the plight of Israel’s Ethiopian immigrants animates a film that won first prize at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2000 and that opens today at New York’s Quad Cinema. Dan Wolman, an Israeli film director with childhood roots in Ethiopia and years of TV work there, explores their problems in “Foreign Sister,”…
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BESSARABIAN BALLADS AND MORE FROM MOLDOVA
When clarinetist German Goldenshteyn (pictured here) left his native Moldova behind, he brought with him to the United States a trunk full of klezmer songbooks and a mind brimming with the songs he played for years at weddings in Bessarabia and Ukraine. Goldenshteyn is himself a living bridge of the history of klezmer music, one…
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Far East of Eden, a Scholar’s Fascination With the Jews
China may not be the first place that comes to mind at the mention of “Judaic studies,” but nobody can say that this is due to lack of effort on the part of Xu Xin, China’s homegrown Jewish studies dynamo. The founder and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University and president…
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In New CD, Israel’s Musical Soul Peers at Those Living in Shadows
‘Artists should be individuals, look for their own way, their own language to express themselves,” Israeli singer Chava Alberstein insists. “No one artist represents” all of Israeli culture. Still, it may be fair to say that if one singer has come to personify Israel through the years, it’s Alberstein. With her mane of curly blond…
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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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