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European Pol Wants Oversight of P.A. Funding
He is what would be considered by many as an unlikely advocate for Israel: a French Socialist. But as a member of the European Parliament, Francois Zimeray has been the driving force behind an unprecedented move to shed light on the possible misuse of European funds by the Palestinian Authority. Although his efforts to launch…
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Anti-Folk Music: A Ballad of The Bushes
Now Georgie Bush’s in Washington He got there by a stunt he spun: His friends in court said he’s the one Although he really hadn’t won. Georgie said, “I don’t feel shame, For that’s the way we play the game. There’s nothing that should make you stop, So long as you end up on top.”…
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Why Middle East ‘Marshall Plan’ Ignores Real Roots of Terrorism
BELARUS Page 17OSHMENE, Belarus — Only once in the 12 years that I’ve conducted these little expeditions to Eastern Europe have I come across a three-generation Jewish family that lives under one roof in a shtetl. Not that they’re all talking to each other, mind you — as Ecclesiastes once remarked, “There is nothing new…
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Visit to Israel Is No Holiday For a Volunteer Paramedic
JERUSALEM — Delivering babies and treating victims of terrorism: Those aren’t the typical activities for a tourist in Israel, even one who has signed on for a rigorous volunteer or study program. But for Sara Ahronheim, 23, it’s a dream come true. “To be helping a 20-year-old Israeli woman give birth to a child, it’s…
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MAINE
The 2003 Maine Jewish Film Festival brings five days of celluloid offerings to the big screen, kicking off with a reception and screening of Henry Bean’s 2001 portrait of a neo-Nazi skinhead, “The Believer,” based on a true story and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year. This year’s festival’s “Crossing Cultures”…
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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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Her Funny Valentine Charms Her With Water, Duct Tape and Cipro
Unlike many Americans, I have had jugs of Poland Spring water and a month’s supply of beans and rice stored in my tiny Upper West Side kitchen for weeks. My husband, Daniel, beat a path to the local hardware store way before any of them sold out of duct tape and plastic sheeting. For Valentine’s…
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J’lem Gets 1st Charedi Mayor
JERUSALEM — The accession to mayor of the United Torah Judaism Party’s Uri Lupoliansky, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, is underscoring the gains that charedim have made in the city during the last decade. For many Israelis, Lupoliansky, who belongs to an extreme ultra-Orthodox sect and represents a non-Zionist party, serves as a symbol of those gains…
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Reaching Out to the Unaffiliated; Honoring Pooch Power
As the orchestra played a waltz, the black-tie crowd filed into the Waldorf-Astoria’s ballroom for the National Jewish Outreach Program’s annual dinner February 4. Master of ceremonies and philanthropist Sam Domb — a Holocaust survivor introduced by NJOP founder Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald as “a close and constant advisor to Prime Minister Sharon” — labeled the…
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