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Trying To Make Sense of Eco’s Latest
The Prague Cemetery By Umberto Eco Translated by Richard Dixon Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 445 pages. $28 There?s no hiding it: Umberto Eco is a lousy novelist. Try as one may, it is difficult to make sense of his new novel, ?The Prague Cemetery.? As is often the case with him, the plot is built as…
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Time for Prophets and Moral Outrage
To appreciate what a wonderfully reckless Jew Peter Bergson was for his time (or really any time) it?s worth listening to him describe a meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House in the early 1940s. He was bringing his case to her as he had, tirelessly, to anyone who would listen in those years:…
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State Lawmakers Ramp Up Anti-Iran Push
As the Obama administration imposes new economic sanctions against Iran in an effort to get it to abandon its nuclear program, some state legislatures are ramping up sanctions of their own. Following the lead of California and Florida, New York state is now considering a ban on contracts with all companies doing business with Iran….
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Volkswagen AG Gives $1 Million to ADL
Volkswagen AG Gives $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League at Annual Dinner At a November 8 awards dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Anti-Defamation League honored Volkswagen AG, which that night announced a $1 million gift “to support ADL’s comprehensive diversity education programs,” said Christian Klingler, a Volkswagen AG board member. “Our cars are sold in 153…
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Drivers Protest Holiday Work at Jewish Schools
Some school bus drivers in Lakewood, N.J., are expressing their displeasure with having to work on Thanksgiving driving Orthodox Jewish students to school. About 200 bus drivers will work on the holiday – half the number of a regular school day – taking some 18,000 Orthodox students to private Jewish schools in Lakewood, according to…
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Hasidic Gangs Battle for Jerusalem
In late October, a gang of 15 to 20 thugs armed with metal rods and clubs attacked a man on the street. They beat him, causing serious internal injuries, a head wound and cuts. And then they drove away in the commercial truck in which they came, leaving the man lying in a pool of…
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Who’s Scoring a ‘Jew Goal’?
Not being an avid soccer fan, I needed an article in the English language edition of the Israeli daily, Haaretz, to alert me to a new expression that has been making the rounds, i.e., a ?Jew goal.? As recently defined by Haaretz?s Anshel Pfeffer, a Jew goal is ?an attack on the goal in which…
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Blazing a Trail, With Modesty and Faith
Miriam Rosenbaum is not your typical yeshiva girl, though she is deeply devout and modest to a fault. The Princeton University senior is the first Orthodox woman to win a Rhodes Scholarship ? and she wants to use the honor to champion the education of Jewish girls. ?I hope that Orthodox girls realize they can…
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Ryan Braun Named National League MVP
Ryan Braun, the slugging outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, was named the National League Most Valuable Player, making him the first Jewish ballplayer to win the award in nearly five decades. Braun, the son of an Israeli-born Jewish father and a Catholic mother, received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced…
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Egypt Cabinet Quits as Death Toll Rises
Egypt’s government submitted its resignation to the country’s ruling military council on Monday, as the death toll in clashes between protesters and police rose to 24 since their onset on Friday. Later Monday, Al Jazeera reported that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces accepted the government’s offer to resign. The move followed the resignation…
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Woody Allen’s Son Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Ronan Farrow, the over-achieving son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. The 23-year-old, who graduated college at 15 and already aced Yale Law School, will study international development at Oxford University in Britain. He’s now working as a special advisor for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Rhodes is…
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