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Monthly Archives: May 2011
OPINION: United States-Israel alliance hurt?
By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
United States-Israel strategic relations may be stronger than ever, but politically the alliance took an unnecessary body blow over the past week as the prime minister of Israel sat in the Oval Office on live TV lecturing the president of the U. S. in a tone Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg said “suggested he [...]
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For Obama, Bibi tensions subside, political problems begin
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA)–That Israel problem President Obama had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Old news.
That Israel problem Obama has with Congress? And with his party?
That’s just beginning.
In two successive speeches—one to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday and another to a joint meeting of Congress the following day, Netanyahu had nothing [...]
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Tagged Congress, Fla., Florida, Israel, israel public affairs committee, Jerusalem, Matt Brooks, Middle East, Mr. President, N.Y., Palestine, President Obama, prime minister benjamin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, public affairs committee, Rep. Gary Ackerman, Speech, U.S., United States, Washington
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Stolowitzky’s ‘Gertruda’s Oath’ is set for Live and Learn lecture at AJCC
Michael Stolowitzky will present Gertruda’s Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II, as the second part of the four-part Jules and Paula Stein Live and Learn Lecture-Meal Series. Stolowitzky’s lecture is based on his life and the book of the same name by Israeli author Ram Oren.
The presentation will be [...]
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Tagged Eastern Europe, family, Gertruda, Gertruda Bablinska, international business development, Israel, Jules, Lecture, Michael Stolowitzky, Middle East, New York City, Oren, Palestine, Paula, Poland, United States, Warsaw, wealthy jewish family, Whitehall, whitehall rd
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Obama’s peace plan: A way forward, or a cul-de-sac?
By ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN (left)
Huffington Post
President Barack Obama’s speeches at the State Department and to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee provoked strong and diverse reactions in the Jewish community. Some castigated the president, particularly for his reference to the pre-1967 lines “with land swaps” as the basis for Palestinian-Israeli talks. Others lauded Mr. Obama [...]
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Tagged ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN, Hamas, Isra, Israel, israel public affairs committee, Middle East, Mr. Obama, North Africa, President, President Abbas, President Obama, prime minister benjamin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, public affairs committee, U.S., United States, Washington
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Part II of Community of Jewish Writers series scheduled for Ohav Shalom June 2
The second presentation of the second annual Community of Jewish Writers series willbe held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at Ohav Shalom Synagogue, 113 New Krumkill Rd., Albany.
The series was organized by Leslie Neustadt (left), a retired attorney and published writer, and will feature 10 area writers reading some of their works.
Wendy Bates [...]
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Tagged Albany, Author, brecht forum, Brooklyn, Carol Bluestein, Islands, Israel, Jan Tramontano, Jay Wenk, latin american literature, Linda Sonia Miller, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Poland, Romania, Sandra Gardner, series, Shalom, Shalom Synagogue, Susan Nowogrodzki, Trina Porte, TROY, United States, Wendy Bates
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Temple Sinai will celebrate Rabbis Motzkin and Rubenstein’s 25 years of service June 3-5
Temple Sinai in Saratoga Springs will mark the 25th anniversary of Rabbi Linda Motzkin’s and Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein’s ordination and 25 years of service to Temple Sinai with a three-day celebration Friday, June 3 through Sunday, June 5. The married couple will also receive honorary doctor of divinity degrees from Hebrew Union College in [...]
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Tagged Cincinnati, Conifer Park, Gala, hebrew union college, Jerry Silverman, N.A.A.C.P, Rabbi Jonathan, Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein, Rabbi Linda, Rabbi Linda Motzkin, Saratoga County, saratoga spa state park, Saratoga Springs, Sinai, State Park, temple, Torah, volunteer chaplains
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Can it be done by Memorial Day? Jewish chaplains memorial hits a snag
CHAPLAINS HILL AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY includes monuments to 23 chaplains who perished in World War I, 134 Protestant chaplains from World Wars I and II, and 83 Catholic chaplains who died in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. What it doesn’t include is a memorial to the 13 Jewish chaplains who died in the [...]
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THE GREAT RABBINO: The Bear Jew, Gabe Carimi
By JEREMY FINE
Chicago has had its share of great athletes, Michael Jordan, Frank Thomas, and Stan Mikita to name a few. The Bears have probably the richest of the Chicago teams with players like Walter Payton, Gayle Sayers, and Dick Butkus. But it has been a while since any Chicago team has had a great [...]
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Tagged Amsterdam, Beth El, Chicago, coach pete carroll, Dick Butkus, Erik Lorig, Frank Thomas, Gabe Carimi, Gayle Sayers, Israel, Jay Cutler, Jeremy Fine, Jordan, Ken Holtzman, Kevin Youkilis, Madison, Michael Jordan, Mike Cammalleri, Mike Martz, New York City, NJ, Olin Kruetz, Pete Carroll, Rochelle, Rose Bowl, round, sandy koufax, Sid Luckman, Southern Cal, Stan Mikita, Steve Stone, synagogue, Tampa Bay, Walter Payton, Yuri Foreman
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‘Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong’
Book Review
By JONATHAN KIRSCH
The Jewish Journal
“Writers don’t die of typhus,” goes one of my favorite quotations from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. “They die of typos.”
Alina Tugend (left), however, is one writer who sees errors as an opportunity for redemption and improvement both for individuals and institutions. Indeed, as she argues persuasively in Better [...]
