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Reform Rabbis Asking Temples To Fund Outreach Jobs
A showdown over budget cuts is brewing between the congregational arm of the Reform movement and several prominent Reform rabbis, who charge that the nation’s largest liberal Jewish denomination is crippling its outreach to intermarried families. A number of rabbis have initiated grass-roots fundraising efforts to save the jobs of the movement’s 13 regional outreach…
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Secrets of the City
CHAPTER 64: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND In Chapter 63, Ruth and Augusta exchanged confidences over cocktails. Brooke had an appointment with a divorce lawyer, an old law school classmate of Jacob’s, and she wanted a serious outfit, perhaps a gray suit with a white satin blouse, for their first meeting. She had not…
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Her Funny Valentine Charms Her With Water, Duct Tape and Cipro
Unlike many Americans, I have had jugs of Poland Spring water and a month’s supply of beans and rice stored in my tiny Upper West Side kitchen for weeks. My husband, Daniel, beat a path to the local hardware store way before any of them sold out of duct tape and plastic sheeting. For Valentine’s…
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Wooing Labor, Sharon Begins P.A. Talks
JERUSALEM — Under the shadow of the impending American war on Iraq, Prime Minister Sharon is expanding his talks with Palestinians and accelerating his drive for a “secular unity government,” with Labor in tow. Sharon and his advisers have met in recent weeks with a host of Palestinian leaders, including Arafat deputy Abu Mazen and…
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To Some Arabs, Iraq War Means Freedom
Hatem Mukliss’s family comes from Tikrit, Iraq — Saddam Hussein’s hometown. And like the Iraqi leader, Mukliss is a Sunni Muslim. The similarities end there. Mukliss’s father was an official in the Iraqi government until 1993, when he was murdered by Saddam’s regime. The killing inspired Mukliss to dedicate his life to deposing Saddam. “I…
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LASTING HATREDS
Two Jews are found on a deserted island, goes the old joke, by a passing ocean liner. The men who come to shore to rescue the two Jews see three structures on the island. When asked, one of the Jews explains, “Well, the first is my synagogue, the second is his synagogue and neither of…
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Vote on Ethiopians Exposing Aid Rift
The decade-long battle over Ethiopian refugees is shifting to the United States, after the Israeli Cabinet’s unanimous vote Sunday approving the immigration of more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians. At issue is a little-noticed clause in the approved Cabinet resolution that is sparking debate among American Jewish groups over how much aid should be sent to…
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Anti-Israel Voices Muted as Millions Rally
They cheerfully rode the New York City subway uptown: three Jewish women in their late 50s or early 60s, bundled up in heavy coats decorated in peace buttons. Millions of protesters in 600 cities around the world were rallying against a looming war in Iraq, and these New Yorkers did not intend to be left…
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A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue Seeks Europe’s True Heart
Brussels, the bilingual capital of Belgium, is Old Europe at its architectural best. The center of the old city is the Grand’Place — Grote Markt in Dutch — an exquisite square lined with gold-laced 17th-century buildings, constructed by the guilds that once ran Brussels’ civic life. One of the most elaborate of these buildings is…
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In France’s ‘Antisemitic Moment,’ Lessons for Today?
The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 By Pierre Birnbaum Translated by Jane Marie Todd Hill and Wang, 352 pages, $30. * * *| Imagine that an impartial observer had tried, in the year 1900, to predict which European country would attempt to exterminate the Jews during the coming century. The most likely…
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Unflippable Lawyer Bites Mickey D’s With Burger Suit
At times it seemed as if the entire McWorld was against Samuel Hirsch. The Manhattan lawyer catapulted to infamy last summer as he spearheaded a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of obese teenagers. As the latest player in the assign-the-blame-game, Hirsch became the brunt of late-night talk show jokes and a poster boy for…
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