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Author Archives: Jim Clevenson
Peering behind Obama’s Purim costume
by Michael Freund
The Jerusalem Post
March 8, 2012
Today is Purim, one of the most joyful festivals on the Jewish calendar, when we celebrate the deliverance of our ancestors from a Persian plot to annihilate them.
It is a day rife with ritual, from the reading of the Book of Esther to the giving of charity and the [...]
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Tagged AIPAC, food parcels, minister benjamin netanyahu, President, prime minister benjamin
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Schenectady Jewish Community Center blows out winter with ‘Mid-Winter Summer Blow-out’
PHOTOS BY JIM CLEVENSON
Schenectady Jewish Community Center on Balltown Road held an open house with a “hot summer” theme, on Sunday, Feb. 12. Here are photos of some of the activities.
The Jewish World’s Frank McGivern, sales manager, and editor-in-chief Laurie Clevenson, with a young visitor to The Jewish World booth.
The JCC’s program director, Adam Chaskin, [...]
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Tagged JCC, jcc board, Jewish, nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp, summer camp staff
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Halpern: Israel is here to stay, and for the future
By JAMES CLEVENSON
with photos by Jade Elizabeth
“We build! We build for the future!”
This was perhaps the main message of Micah Halpern’s Jan. 23 talk about the Palestinians’ propaganda war on Israel. “Israel is here to stay,” he said. The real negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians is not about giving and taking land, “it’s about [...]
Who are the Palestinians?
Some history
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
“Israel Hayom” Newsletter, December 14, 2011
http://bit.ly/up8bJm
Contrary to political correctness, Palestinian Arabs have not been in the area west of the Jordan River from time immemorial; no Palestinian state ever existed, no Palestinian People was ever robbed of its land and there is no basis for the Palestinian “claim [...]
God is in the notes
Notes on three Tanglewood concerts
By JIM CLEVENSON
Emotional and “spiritual” experiences abound this summer, and they’re not just in shul.
Trips to Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in Lenox, Mass., have provided moments of elation, peace, angst, and transcendence. Aside from the music, the flower gardens, mature trees, manorial buildings, and understated modernity of the [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture
Tagged boston symphony orchestra, brahms violin concerto, jaap van zweden, music, width
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Ali al-Mugri’s ‘The Handsome Jew’: Yemeni Novelist vs. Arab Ideology
by Valentina Colombo
from Hudson New York
February 1, 2011 at 4:30 am
Last year the Yemeni writer and intellectual Ali al-Muqri published his new novel with one of the most important publishers in the Arab world, the Lebanese Dar al-Saqi. Al-Muqri is known in the Arab world for his elegant style (he is a poet as well); for [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Blog
Tagged al jaz, al jazee, Al-Muqri, Ali, arab newspapers, class hatred, Dar, Fatima, Hudson New York, Jerusalem, Jew, novel, Palestine, story of fatima, Valentina Colombo
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Visit the web page often as we frequently update our community calendar with events that may miss our publication deadline. We also post new articles that require a more timely presentation than [...]
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Tagged deadline schedule, e mail address, MAY, NOV, web page visit
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Shabbats on the Slopes
SCHUSSING RABBI: Rabbi Matt Cutler, spiritual leader of Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, shows off his skills during the congregation’s Ski Shabbat last year. Ski Shabbats at both Temple Beth El in Glens Falls and Gates of Heaven have been scheduled this winter.
Two area congregations are sponsoring skiing Shabbats.
Beth El at West Mountain
The Glens [...]
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Tagged adult skiers, Beth El, Jan, Katie Weaver, mass moca, Mass., Rabbi Matt Cutler, Shabbat, shabbat service, ski, West Mountain
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Sch’dy JCC Celebrates 90 Years
The Schenectady Jewish community center is celebrating its 90th anniversary, with local leaders attending a ribbon cutting ceremony Sunday morning.
The SJCC’s 90th anniversary logo, designed by Niskayuna High School senior Amy Yao, winner of an art competition that took place throughout Schenectady County, was unveiled.
Executive Director Mark Weintraub said he hopes more [...]
The Orthodox Jews fighting the Judaization of East Jerusalem
Leading the demonstrations of solidarity with Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah are some young Israelis with a religious background. They explain their activism and how it correlates to their conception of the true meaning of the Torah.
By Nir Hasson
Haaretz
Not long before Hillel Ben Sasson attended his first demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, [...]
Posted in News & Politics
Tagged Al-Quds, Amos, Ben-Sasson, Bethlehem, capital of israel, East Jerusalem, Egypt, Europe, Gil Gutglick, God, Goldberg, Israel, Jerusalem, Sheikh, sheikh jarrah, Simeon
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