Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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Culture Sting Like a Bee: Ali of the Typewriter
Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings By A.J. Liebling, edited by Pete Hamill The Library of America, 1,057 pages, $40.00. One of the last pieces A.J. Liebling ever wrote was about an up-and-coming boxer and versifier named Cassius Clay. Liebling wasn’t entirely sold on the egotistical young fighter, but he was clearly struck by…
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Life The Soloveichik Who Could Help Challenge Specter
Everybody noticed when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the last Jewish Republican in the Senate, switched over to the Democratic Party on April 28. But there was also another, less noted, shift of Jewish power on the same day. As Politico reported, Republican primary candidate Pat Toomey, a potential Specter opponent in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate…
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News In Jewish Education, Deep Cuts Shape New Landscapes
As the current economic downturn becomes the longest since the Great Depression, a series of painful cuts at America’s flagship institutions of Judaic scholarship have produced a new and uncomfortable reality: Jewish higher education is shrinking. The most dramatic example of this came April 14, when the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,…
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News Reform Seminary Among Schools Facing Crippling Cuts
The Reform movement’s seminary is looking into closing two of its three U.S. campuses as part of an effort to close looming budget gaps caused by the recent economic downturn. Rabbi David Ellenson, the president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, said that school officials were considering several plans for restructuring the institution —…
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News Harding Indictment a Symbol of Liberal Party’s Downfall
If there is an enduring present-day image of New York’s Liberal Party, it is likely that of former party chief Raymond Harding — an enormous, white-haired man in a black raincoat and handcuffs — being led into state court in April for an indictment on charges of influence peddling. It could have almost been an…
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Life Was Norman Levy in on Bernie Madoff’s Scam?
The first part of the Bernard Madoff story raised a profound and troubling question about human nature: How could a respected and successful man — a man almost universally described as kind, considerate and apparently trustworthy — knowingly fleece his closest friends, charities he had supported, even his own sister? But now that Madoff is…
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News Harvard’s Muslim Chaplain Embroiled in Death-for-Apostasy Controversy
Remarks on apostasy and capital punishment under Islamic law by Harvard’s Muslim chaplain have become the center of a heated debate about whether Islamic and Western values can be compatible. In an e-mail to an unnamed student, the chaplain, Taha Abdul-Basser, stated that most traditional authorities on Islamic law agree that in countries under Muslim…
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Life Norm Coleman Looks to Hashem
Having had little success in the courts in his efforts to regain his Minnesota Senate seat, Republican Norm Coleman is seeking relief from a higher power. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Coleman said that he had been praying every morning with tefillin. “I bind myself every morning,” Coleman told The Times….
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