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Gallantly Grammatical
A promise is a promise. I ended last week’s column with the pledge to tell you why the Hebrew phrase ma’asei merkavah, “the doings of the chariot,” is sometimes humorously applied by political commentators in Israel to the process of forming coalition governments, such as the one just put together by Prime Minister Sharon, and…
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Comic Brings Down the House on Synagogue Circuit
We’ll start with the most obvious: Comedian Joel Chasnoff is cute. At a performance at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan last week, this reporter’s date — er, sister — whispered this observation when Chasnoff emerged from the area serving as the backstage. A JCC volunteer concurred, kicking it up a notch: In introducing Chasnoff…
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‘Everyone Claimed To Have Hid Some Jews in the Cellar’
A blond boy sleds into a woman on a snowy slope at the outset of the beautifully wrought film “Nowhere in Africa,” this year’s official German entry for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film (which opened March 7 at Sunshine Cinema and Lincoln Plaza), based on the German best-selling autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig….
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Candidates Start Attracting Backers (Correction)
Philadelphia Democrat Kenneth Klothen has not emerged as a fundraiser for presidential candidate Howard Dean, as the Forward reported last week in a March 7 article, “Candidates Start Attracting Backers.” We regret the error.
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Secrets of the City
A SERIALIZED NOVEL By Anne Roiphe CHAPTER 66: A WILD IMP DANCE In Chapter 65, Brooke’s deep sleep was followed by thoughts of conversion. * * *| Rabbi Gedali began with his youngest students, the ones with voices not yet fully changed, whose bodies had yet to grow to their allotted inches. He called them…
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THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Of Noteworthy Items in the Press No Kidding: The Qatari satellite television station Al Jazeera broadcast a discussion February 15 on “Why the Arabs Have Become the Joke of the World,” but the panelists weren’t laughing. The unusually candid discussion, translated from Arabic by the Middle East Media Research Institute, offers a rare glimpse into…
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Fishy Story Tests Chasidic Town’s Beliefs
NEW SQUARE, N. Y. — Skver chasidim from Brooklyn to Montreal are discussing the latest miracle: New Square’s talking fish. In the back of a local fish market, more than a month ago — so the story goes — a carp opened its mouth and declared that it was the soul of a childless Canadian…
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Newsdesk March 14, 2003
Tisch Eyed for Conference James Tisch has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to be the next chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, according to a report in the New York Sun Wednesday. The Sun reports that Tisch, the CEO of Loews Corp and chairman of the board of the…
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On Purim, Dress Up, Drink Up and Be Merry
Jews are not big drinkers. Maybe it’s because kishke and cocktails don’t mix. Maybe it’s because we’re too neurotic to kick back with a six-pack. Or maybe it’s because we know our mothers would kill us if we made a drunken spectacle of ourselves. Whatever the reason, many Jews will choose milk over a martini…
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Embattled Bay Area Police Chief To Be Honored
OAKLAND — A San Francisco Jewish group is moving forward with plans to honor the city’s police chief, who this week was cleared after being indicted in one of the highest-profile police scandals in recent American history. The Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal, a human rights group working on behalf of Jews…
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Ups and Downs of the Holiday of Lots
Over the years, Purim has had its ups and downs. Sometimes marked with exuberance and at other times barely noted, its lot in America has not been a happy one. In New York of the 1860s, for instance, fancy dress balls and masques were all the rage. “Astonishing the lovers of fun and good society,”…
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