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Islamic Jihad Blazes a Bloody Trail in Bid for Dominance
HEBRON — Fresh off a string of bloody attacks, the local cell of Islamic Jihad here is tying Palestinian officials in knots even as it has earned the respect of many Palestinians for the audacity of its sorties and its unrelenting fight against the Jewish state. Consisting of no more than several score fighters, the…
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This week, the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture’s kicks off its interdisciplinary project “New York, New York,” which includes an exhibition, play, film series and symposium. The project was conceived as a way to pay tribute to New York in the shadow of September 11, 2001, and as a way to honor the city’s…
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Attacks Target a Teeming Enclave for Foreign Workers
TEL AVIV — The double suicide bombing Sunday in the Neve Sha’anan district that most of the estimated 80,000 foreign workers who live in Tel Aviv call home cast a spotlight on a community living in fear of both terrorism and deportation. Of the 22 killed in the attacks near the old central bus station,…
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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Lectures and Discussions Abraham’s Descendants: Bruce Feiler, author of “Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths,” discusses the patriarch Jews and Muslims share in an “Abraham Salon” with Forward editor J.J. Goldberg, New Yorker contributor Daphne Merkin and David Roskies, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The conversation is part…
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Deadly Bombing Short-Circuits Rounds of Middle East Diplomacy
JERUSALEM — Seeking a response to last Sunday’s double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel this week took what it considered a string of mild retaliatory measures, meant to avoid embarrassing Washington on the eve of a war with Iraq. Instead, it found itself embroiled in a first-class diplomatic crisis with Washington’s most powerful ally,…
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FLORIDA
Florida’s Dora Teitelbaum Center for Jewish Culture presents a month full of events dedicated to Marc Chagall (1889-1985), kicking off with a screening of Harry Rasky’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Homage to Chagall: The Colour of Love.” An exhibition of some 20 signed original Chagall lithographs are complemented by panels from Salvador Dali’s “Aliya” series. Also in…
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Likud Sweats As Scandal Tars Sharon
JERUSALEM — With Israel’s elections barely three weeks away, shell-shocked voters are experiencing a sort of whiplash, emotionally buffeted between horrific Palestinian terrorism and the ever-spreading revelations of corruption at the top — revelations that now point directly to Prime Minister Sharon. Last weekend, a double-bombing massacre of 22 Israelis and foreign workers in downtown…
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A Vilna Coachman Is Driven To Set the Record Straight
Dovid Katz is professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture at Vilnius University in Lithuania. From 1997-1999 his column “Belarus Diary,” offering vignettes of Jewish life in a resurgent Eastern Europe, appeared regularly in the Forward. This week we are proud to welcome him back to our pages with the first installment of a series…
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Groups Rap Feds Over Detention Of ‘Visitors’
Jewish groups led by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society are preparing a letter to President Bush to express misgivings about the detention last month of hundreds of Middle Eastern men in Southern California who reported to federal immigration offices to comply with a new post-September 11 visitor registration program. Three weeks after the temporary detentions…
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Defiant Officials in Ukraine Build Atop Jewish Graves
KIEV, Ukraine — The local municipality of a small city in Ukraine is refusing to stop construction of an apartment building atop a Jewish cemetery there. Local officials in Volodymyr-Volynskyi are defying a December 17 appeals court decision that followed five years of legal battles waged by the Jewish community in Ukraine, with the help…
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Orthodox, Hawks Blasting Joe For Remarks on Mideast Trip
As the 2004 presidential race gets under way, Senator Joseph Lieberman appears to have damaged his support among hawkish and Orthodox Jews with statements he made during a recent trip to the Middle East. At news conferences during the trip, the Connecticut lawmaker expressed support for a Palestinian state, deplored poor humanitarian conditions in the…
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