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Isser Harel, Father of Spy Network
TEL AVIV — Isser Harel, who founded Israel’s intelligence community and directed the capture of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, died this week at 91 after a lengthy illness. Harel ran the Shin Bet security service for 15 years and the Mossad foreign intelligence service for 11 years, and was largely responsible for both agencies’ worldwide…
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The Golden Calf as a Symbol Of Desire for a Knowable God
‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 32:4) The people couldn’t have been so blind as to believe that the statue that Aaron had just made right before their eyes was their God. All the Israelites, even women, children and infants in arms, had just, unforgettably,…
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Charities Set To Fight President On Budget
WASHINGTON — Ending a months-long reluctance by major Jewish institutions to challenge the Bush administration on domestic issues, representatives of the nation’s largest Jewish charitable network are gearing up for a fight with the administration over plans to revamp Medicare and Medicaid. Lobbying efforts are planned at both the federal and state levels by the…
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Israeli, Arab Colleges Unite To Protest Canada Aid Cut
MONTREAL — The presidents of universities in Israel, Jordan and the West Bank have joined in an unusual joint appeal to Canada’s foreign aid agency to preserve funding for a McGill University program that brings together Arab and Israeli social work students, training them to be “peace ambassadors” in their homelands. The survival of the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 21, 2003
It is not often that a poem written by an Indian from ancient India is translated into Yiddish and then further translated from the Yiddish into English. But here is an exception to the rule. Rabindramath Tagore (1861-1941) wrote a poem titled “Why” in which he makes a frustrating psycho-philosophical observation. To be overly protective…
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Mosque Crackdown Alarms London Jews
LONDON — Jews in the British capital are on “high alert” for attacks after a recent crackdown on Islamist extremists and because of a heightening of tensions owing to the likelihood of a war in Iraq. The Community Security Trust, a wing of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the country’s central Jewish representative…
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All in Favor of the Long View, Say Nyet
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century By Michael Mandelbaum Public Affairs, 512 pages, $30. * * *| It’s been almost 12 years since the first President George Bush, flush with triumph in the Cold War and victory over Iraq, declared a burgeoning New World Order with…
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Iranian Parliamentarian Says Tehran May Free Last Five Jewish Prisoners
The five remaining Jewish prisoners held in Iran on spying charges may be freed within the next two months, according to the sole Jewish member of the Iranian parliament. “From the discussions I had in Iran, I sincerely hope they will be released either on the occasion of the anniversary of the Islamic revolution on…
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Part-Time Wife to the Whole Damn World
Your Mouth Is Lovely By Nancy Richler Ecco/HarperCollins, 386 pages, $25.95. * * *| Contemporary Jews reconstruct the lost places of the European past in search of ground solid enough to support the foundations of their future. This Jewish search for what Jewish literature professor David Roskies has called a “usable past” animates fictional as…
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Anti-Israel Rhetoric Divides Anti-War Coalitions
Anti-Israel rhetoric within the anti-war movement is raising concerns among Jews who oppose an American attack on Iraq. Much of their anxiety surrounds a controversial group, International Answer, formed after the September 11 attacks, that has played a key role in anti-war organizing. It sponsored the massive anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C, and San Francisco…
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Secrets of the City
CHAPTER 60: THE QUEST FOR A CULPRIT By Anne Roiphe IIn Chapter 59, Ina asked Sergei to help with researching her new idea about cell reproduction. * * *| Leonid did not take time for lunch. He needed a lawyer right away. A man had a good idea only so often. He did not intend…
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