Moses and Aaron, bent with wandering, walk from the Tent of Meeting. Aaron: This one is trouble. Moses: You’re a worrier. You thought the commandment on adultery would be trouble. Aaron: No. That one people could simply ignore. This one is trouble. Trust me. M: Don’t be silly. Men and women don’t want relations at…
After a faltering start in the first quarter of the year, the presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman raked in between $300,000 and $400,000 in contributions during the first week of April, more than it received in the entire month of January. “Once we hit our stride, we really hit our stride,” said campaign…
Senior politicians, academics and intelligence and law enforcement officials gathered Sunday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for the launching of the Strategic Dialogue Center, a think tank affiliated with Netanya College in Israel. The center organized a conference on global terrorism and asked the panelists to provide an answer to the question: “If…
“If the [New York] Herald Tribune were around today, I’d be in Iraq,” the 91-year-old Ruth Gruber told me at the March 24 reception for WILD PAC at Patti Kenner’s Park Avenue apartment. Founded in 2001, WILD PAC is a nonpartisan organization that supports congressional leaders who advocate protection of America’s public wilderness lands. Excerpting…
WASHINGTON — Israel is urging the Bush administration to target Hezbollah following the war in Iraq, arguing that the militant Shiite organization threatens the stability of the Middle East and the security of the United States worldwide. Based in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has stepped up its anti-American rhetoric since the start of the war in…
“He was a gung-ho, macho guy, and also very soft-hearted,” Rabbi Max Wall said of his grandson, Marine Corporal Mark Asher Evnin, who was killed in action in Iraq on April 3. The 21-year old Vermont resident was a scout sniper with the 1st Marine Division based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Evnin was shot several…
While working on his forthcoming anthology “Women in Yiddish Poetry,” Barnett Zumoff noticed that many of these poems written about Jewish women or by Jewish women revolved around the theme of “mother.” As a result, he has compiled a selection of such poems in a separate volume, titled “About Mother: Yiddish Poets Speak.” One of…
Having apparently failed to secure any changes to the internationally sponsored “road map” to peace, Israel and its supporters in Washington are gearing up for diplomatic battles over the plan’s implementation. The Israeli government said this week that it would submit 15 proposed amendments to the document, which is expected to be released within weeks,…
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who has positioned himself as the most antiwar of the top Democratic presidential contenders, is insisting that he did not mean to cast aspersions on the New York metropolitan area — or its Jews — when he called the region “hawkish” in remarks to a Southern newspaper. “The most hawkish…
Passover Roundup Russian Style: Russian-speaking families from the former Soviet Union are invited to join members of HaTsad HaRishon, or the First Step Program, for a first-night Seder. The Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, 7802 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn; $7, $25 families, reservations required. (718-331-6800, ext. 19) For the Children: “Seder Surprise:…
The National Jewish Population Survey, the $6 million study whose release was postponed last November so that its methods could be reviewed, has been postponed again for a second review. The new delay means that the survey, commissioned by United Jewish Communities and originally set for completion in 2000, will not be published for at…
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