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Republicans Tap ‘Red Meat’ Guy in Bid To Woo Young Conservative Generation
WASHINGTON — The “Eric Cantor” sandwich was unveiled January 23 at Stacks, Washington’s new kosher deli, at a fundraiser for the newly appointed deputy House majority whip. The sandwich chosen to carry the name of the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives was a tuna-based stacker — not quite a power lunch befitting…
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Jew as Metaphor Quick! Crush This Philosemitism Before It Gets Out of Hand
Suicide bombers in Jerusalem, swastikas in Brooklyn, synagogue fires in Europe, so-called intellectuals shunning Israeli colleagues: Not since 1945 have Jews felt so threatened. Yet Jews have faced political resentment and theological mania for millennia. What’s new today is a subtler danger that the Jewish community has utterly failed to recognize. We must stamp out…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions One in a Hundred: The “Great Jewish Books” series — in which prominent writers discuss the books on the National Yiddish Book Center’s list of One Hundred Greatest Books — takes on Franz Kafka’s “The Castle.” John Shea reads and the book center’s director, Aaron Lansky, leads the discussion with André Aciman…
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The Tears of a Clown Inspire a Dark Tale of Suburbia
PARK CITY, Utah — In “Capturing the Friedmans,” a documentary about a middle-class Jewish family come undone, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki uses ordinary memorabilia — home video clips, snapshots — to tell an extraordinary tale. Here is the family of five visiting a farm in New Jersey, celebrating Chanukah, swimming at the shore. Here they are…
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The Holocaust and His Catholic Problem
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Knoff, 362 pages, $25. * * *| The power of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s latest book, “A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair,”…
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OUT OF AFRICA: THE FALASH MURA
As the reports of impending famine in Ethiopia become increasingly alarming, a photography exhibit opening this week focuses on the Falash Mura, a minute group among Ethiopia’s 67.5 million inhabitants. The Falash Mura comprise the descendants of Ethiopians who converted to Christianity from Judaism under duress, most of whom have returned to the faith of…
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THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Of Noteworthy Items in the Press French Frays: “Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” That’s how “The Simpsons” — and National Review Online, for that matter — refers to the French, and for journalist Timothy Garton Ash it’s typical of a rising tide of anti-Europeanism in the United States. Writing in the January 15 issue of The New…
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Go, Go and Live!
Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust Edited by Jeffrey Shandler Yale, 437 pages, $35. * * *| Recently I visited a new synagogue in the overwhelmingly Orthodox Long Island suburb of Woodmere. In its entrance hall is a wall mural depicting East European Jewish life on the verge of Nazi…
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Newsdesk January 31, 2003
‘Cloned Baby’ in Israel? The head of the group that claims to have cloned humans testified under oath this week that the first clone, a baby girl known as Eve, is in Israel rather than the United States, the Associated Press reported. Brigitte Boisselier, president of Clonaid, made the disclosure during a hearing into whether…
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To Jewishness
As you were contained in Or embodied by Louise Schlossman When she was a sophomore At Walnut Hills High School In Cincinnati, Ohio, I salute you And thank you For the fact That she received My kisses with tolerance On New Year’s Eve And was not taken aback As she well might have been Had…
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French Rabbi Denies Report He Stabbed Self
JERUSALEM — The strange case of the assault on French Rabbi Gabriel Farhi turns ever stranger. Early in the evening of Friday, January 3, Farhi called the police to say he had been stabbed by a helmeted man screaming “God is great” in Arabic as he prepared to enter his small Paris synagogue. Later on,…
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