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‘The Catechism of the Jew Is His Calendar’
Moadim Lesimcha: Explorations into the Jewish Holidays By Rabbi Shlomo Aviner Urim Publications, 208 pages, $22. * * *| The ideological quandary of almost all post-Enlightenment Jews has been how, and even whether, to be both modern and Jewish. Modern Jews, in contradistinction to merely contemporary ones, are, of course, those who say it can…
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U.S., Israel: Increasing Turmoil Dims Chances for Moderate P.A.
WASHINGTON — Deteriorating economic and social conditions in the West Bank and Gaza soon may render the territories ungovernable, according to a growing number of reports from Israeli and American government agencies and international humanitarian organizations. With the Bush administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace-making efforts on hold until after Israeli elections in late January — and probably…
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Secrets of the City
In Chapter 56, Neil took his own life by the side of the road. Moe Alter was staring at his computer. On the screen was an e-mail from the polling firm he had hired with funds from the Mayor’s last campaign. The Mayor’s radio speech was corny. But then the Mayor was corny, and the…
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A Muslim Trawls For Jewish Souls
BETHEL, Conn. — Mohamed Ghounem is looking for a few lapsed Jews. The Egyptian-born Ghounem is the founder and Web master of “Jews For Allah,” a missionary Web site designed as the Islamic answer to Jews For Jesus. And while Ghounem is no great fan of Jews For Jesus — he calls Christians “flesh-god worshippers”…
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PSALM 151
THE MUSES Mrs. Sperling, Mrs. Meadow, my grandmother, Gusty — evening, porch, shadows, robed in cotton dresses, buttoned-up sweaters, hair tied back in buns under babushkas, wire-rim spectacles and heavy black shoes. Twittering in Yiddish. Even when young they looked old. Each had at least one deaf ear, how they looked directly at you when…
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Lobbyist’s New Restaurants Put the ‘K’ in K Street
WASHINGTON — Jack Abramoff needed a kosher restaurant in Washington to which to take his clients and congressional contacts. So he created one. Two, actually. Just like he started an Orthodox Jewish day school when he wasn’t impressed with the one his son was attending, and a high school yeshiva when his son graduated from…
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Recalling the Golden Days of Spain
This is the first in a three-part series. * * *| Every American schoolchild has learned the rhyme, “In 1492/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” It’s too often forgotten that this was the very same year in which Columbus’s patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, issued an edict expelling all Jews from Spain. Before the…
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Newsdesk January 3, 2003
Survivors To File Lawsuits American Holocaust survivors who formerly owned property in Poland are planning to file a battery of lawsuits in Europe to put greater pressure on Poland to pass a satisfactory property restitution law. The effort comes in response to legislation introduced into Poland’s Parliament last month that would return only meager compensation….
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Is America Ready for Sarah Silverman?
‘Most walkouts have been Jews, older Jews, and that’s understandable,” comedian Sarah Silverman said about her audiences. “I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.” “Hard core” is a good term for Silverman’s comedy. This controversial 32-year-old performer specializes in edgy jokes about race and sex as well…
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THE FEATHERMAN FILE
Of Noteworthy Items in the Press First Things First: In this corner: “Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense; Richard Perle, the chairman of the Pentagon’s Policy Board; William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, and other neoconservatives [who] see removing Saddam Hussein as an overriding priority, and Hussein himself as a figure of…
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When Miami Beach Was Hot, Hot, Hot
THE WONDERS OF AMERICA As the temperature dips, many of us set our sights on the Bahamas or the Virgin Islands or the Turks and Caicos, whose gentle climes and abundant sunshine promise a respite from the dreariness of winter. Our grandparents and great-grandparents set theirs on Miami Beach, whose population grew by leaps and…
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