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Newsdesk March 21, 2003
Doctor Killer Convicted Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp was found guilty Tuesday for the 1998 sniper shooting of a doctor who provided abortions. Kopp faces 15 years to life for shooting Dr. Barnett Slepian. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for May 9. Slepian was killed on a Friday night by a single bullet from a…
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Mideast Tensions Rile Toronto Campus
York University, a suburban Toronto campus with Canada’s largest concentration of Jewish students, is reeling from the “Concordia virus” — the spread of tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students that previously infected Montreal’s Concordia University. Last week, Toronto police briefly arrested, but did not charge, a Jewish student for allegedly uttering a death threat after…
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Backing Israel on Terror, Bush Preps Postwar Push For a Settlement Freeze (Correction)
A March 7 article, “Backing Israel on Terror, Bush Preps Postwar Push For a Settlement Freeze,” mistakenly stated that Israel had suffered no civilian casualties in the two months preceding March 5. Israel had experienced a two-month lull in suicide bombings.
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Energy Unleashed, Oxygen Found: The Dancing of Rotem Tashach
Gender politics figure prominently in the post-modern dance work of the stirring young Israeli choreographer Rotem Tashach. In his new piece, “Nekeva” (a derogatory Hebrew slang for female), which opened yesterday at Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Arts Nexus (W.A.X.), where it will be performed through March 23, the fragility of sexual identity is explored amid a multimedia…
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Gleanings From the Media Continental Divide: It’s not just London Bridge that seems to be falling down these days in Europe, judging by articles in several European newspapers translated and reprinted in the April issue of World Press Review. “Europe is cracking,” Leopold Unger writes in the February 11 issue of the liberal Polish daily…
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The Jews of Old-Time Medina
Nathan P. Baker of Walnut Creek, Calif., has a query about the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, the second-holiest site of Islam after Mecca. “I was quite surprised,” he writes, “to learn that it was a Jewish city, called Yathrib, long before the time of Muhammad. Could you furnish me, please, with the dates,…
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A Brooklyn Boy Whose Childhood Dreams Stop Here
It’s a typical morning at Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn. Politicians are meeting and greeting, children are dancing jigs and an impressive amount of Irish coffee is being consumed at 9 a.m. The borough’s stentorious president, Marty Markowitz, a smiling, roly-poly man, is wearing a tall striped hat that seems plucked from the pages of…
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Spousal Lectures, Schnapps and Other Glories Celebrated by Unlikely Klezmorim Group
It was nearly 8 p.m. when the klezmorim danced their way in to greet the crowd, hoisted their instruments on stage and proceeded to make a l’chaim on the berry-flavored schnapps that awaited them in a tall, elegant bottle. The musicians didn’t look like Old World incarnates in their sleek black ensembles, nor did they…
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Wooden Synagogue Project Abandoned
BERKELEY, Calif. — A Modern Orthodox congregation that hoped to build a replica of the wooden synagogue of Przedborz, Poland, has reluctantly abandoned its dream after failing to garner national financial support for the project. Instead of re-creating the famous 17th-century structure destroyed by the Nazis, Congregation Beth Israel will spend the $2 million raised…
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Wallant Worthies Are Instantly Recognizable
Literary awards come and go, but some just stick around quietly separating young writers with promise from those dripping with glitz — especially these days, when hype and hard cash are being thrown at writers in the under-30 class. All of which makes the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award worth celebrating as it approaches its…
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Presidents Conference Taps Tisch As Next Leader
America’s central Jewish representative body is naming a billionaire philanthropist and tobacco mogul as its new chairman. James Tisch, president of Loews Corp. and chairman of United Jewish Communities, was selected by a nominating committee last Friday to become chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. If confirmed by the full…
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