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A Generation’s Lost Voice
On March 14, the writer Amanda Davis and both her parents were killed in a small plane crash outside of Asheville, N.C., on the way to promote the publication of her first novel. Amanda, 32, was my close friend. Since that day, the title of her book, “Wonder When You’ll Miss Me,” has achieved a…
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Under Pressure, Israel Acts To Prop Up Birthright Trips
Under heavy criticism from Israeli politicians and American Jewish leaders, the Israeli government abandoned a proposal to end its support for a popular program offering young Diaspora Jews free trips to Israel. Reports early this week that the cash-strapped Israeli government was set to eliminate its financial support for Birthright Israel prompted an outcry among…
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Why They Call It Hell
War is an ugly, unpredictable affair. But certain things are utterly predictable, most of all this: Things go wrong. America’s plan for a quick victory, silencing the nay-sayers and shocking the broader Middle East into compliance, appears to have been an illusion. Now is the time to rethink. After the war is won we will…
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Top Bush Adviser Engulfed In Spat Over His Business
A top Bush administration adviser who is known as a leading advocate of war with Iraq became engulfed in controversy this week regarding a potential conflict of interest between his business activities and his unpaid government postion. Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, has come under fire for accepting a…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions A Lifetime’s Adventures: The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is open again after its winter hiatus. Ruth Gruber, who began her career in journalism in 1932, discusses her 16th book, “Inside of Time: My Journey From Alaska to Israel” (Carroll & Graf, 2002), in which she shares her…
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Hardly a Dove Among Dems’ Brain Trusters
Anyone looking for a strongly dovish alternative to the foreign affairs and national security policymakers advising President Bush would be hard pressed to find it among the analysts and former diplomats advising the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls. An informal survey of the top five contenders’ campaigns yielded a list representing the solid mainstream of the…
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E-mail Spat Shines Light On Volatile Israel Debates After the Fire
With his anguished e-mail dispatches from strife-torn Israel, American-born Rabbi Daniel Gordis has become something of a mini-celebrity in the Jewish community. But some critics are crying foul over a recent posting in which he took aim at a left-wing rabbinical student. In a March 16 e-mail, titled “Take Off That Mask,” Gordis slammed Jill…
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Changing the Tune, Klezmatics Settle A Violinist’s Sex-Discrimination Suit
The Klezmatics have settled a sex-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former member of the popular klezmer band, the Forward has learned. Fiddler Alicia Svigals, 40, was fired last year for missing out-of-town performances during her pregnancy and after the birth of her son. Though Svigals declined to disclose the amount of the settlement, she did…
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Russian Oligarch May Face Extradition
LONDON — British authorities bowed to Kremlin requests to begin extradition hearings against Boris Berezovsky, a Russian Jewish tycoon and former politician who has been in self-imposed exile in London for more than three years. Berezovsky, along with a former business colleague, Yulii Dubov, was arrested and promptly released March 24, in an arrangement between…
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Anti-War March Recalls Protests of an Earlier Day
A shy young woman, Toni, drew close to my wife and me as we patiently waited for this now huge, anti-war gathering to start its march down Broadway, where so many have marched before. She was a teacher of English as a second language who had come to midtown Manhattan to express her opposition to…
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What To Do With the Presence of Evil Among Us?
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy By Susan Neiman Princeton, 358 pages, $29.95. * * *| As any reader of the Book of Job knows, evil is no stranger to humanity, nor to God. How odd, then, that over the past two centuries so few philosophers have wrestled with the devil’s presence…
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