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A Community Rises Up, And the Young Move Away
On a busy Saturday morning, the cool, stone synagogue with its bare interior walls had a calm, unhurried air, as if — despite a half-century of upheaval — tradition hadn’t skipped a beat. Just a five-minute walk away, waiters were wrestling with café umbrellas and Yugos were zipping past Republic Square, leaving clouds of dust…
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ADL Files Brief Opposing UMich’s Admissions Policy
With the Supreme Court set to take up the issue of affirmative action in university admissions for the first time in a quarter-century, the Anti-Defamation League appears to be the only major Jewish group to weigh in with a brief opposing the University of Michigan policies that are being challenged. “What we want is society…
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Remembering Mickey Katz, Madcap ‘King of Delancey Street’ (Correction)
An article in the December 20 issue, “Remembering Mickey Katz, Madcap ‘King of Delancey Street,’” misspelled the name of a famed crooner. His name is Russ, not Ross, Colombo. Chapters 56 and 57 of Anne Roiphe’s serial novel, “Secrets of the City,” were inadvertently published in the wrong order in the issues of January 3…
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Faithful or Fraudulent?
‘Celui qui sauve une vie, sauve l’humanité entierè” (“Whoever saves a life, saves all of humanity”) is the headline of an interview with the son of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the prototype of the hero of the movie “The Pianist,” in the December 19 issue of the French Jewish weekly Tribune Juive. This noble sentiment, Andrzej Szpilman…
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THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Of Noteworthy Items in the Press Simon Says, “Vote Mitzna!”: Profiled Sunday on “60 Minutes,” the Israeli Labor Party’s candidate for prime minister, Amram Mitzna, couldn’t have had a better showing had he written the segment himself. Correspondent Bob Simon introduced the mayor of Haifa as “an ex-general and a war hero wearing the mantle…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL January 17, 2003
The old rhyme on Jewish sobriety and gentile inebriety says: Shiker iz a goy, shiker iz er, trinkn miz er, vayl er iz a goy. Nikhter iz a yid. Nikhter iz er, davnen miz er, vayl er iz a yid. Despite this characterization of the different drinking habits of Jews and non-Jews, the number of…
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Newsdesk January 17, 2003
Survey: Antisemitism Up Americans under the age of 35 hold more antisemitic beliefs than the generation before them, according a new survey by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research. The survey, conducted by Gary Tobin and Sid Groeneman, also found that nearly one-third of Americans were concerned that a Jewish president might not act…
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Field of Dreams
His birth certificate may say Daron Joffe, but to his friends, family and students, he’s known as “Farmer D.” At 26, Joffe has an impressive seven years of organic soil ground into the treads of his well-worn boots (metaphorically speaking). But it was only recently, he said, that he discovered the symbiotic relationship between his…
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Spirituality Center To Breathe Its Last?
LOS ANGELES — Metivta, an educational institute that channeled New Age-style spiritual energies into the study and practice of Judaism, will close its doors and suspend its programming later this month, in a financial meltdown that has shocked many here with its swiftness. The threatened closure is the latest step in a series of emergency…
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Jewish Films To Watch at Sundance
The Sundance Legend has become as much a part of Hollywood lore as the Lana Turner at Schwabs story: An upstart with a vision maxes out four credit cards, borrows his neighbor’s movie camera, makes an independent film, takes it to the Sundance Film Festival, sells it to a distributor and makes a million. Andrew…
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Bay Area Museum Chairs Stepping Down
SAN FRANCISCO — The co-chairs of the board of the Magnes Museum, formed by last year’s merger of two Bay Area Jewish museums, unexpectedly resigned on Monday, shocking Jewish communal leaders and provoking the 65 remaining board members to explore the option of separating the two institutions. Warren Hellman and Daniel Offit, two prominent San…
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