E.B. Solomont
By E.B. Solomont
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News Senator in Flap Over Nominee
A conservative activist is coming under fire for claiming that a Jewish senator is blocking an Arab American judicial nominee because of his ethnicity. Victoria Toensing, a Washington attorney who sometimes speaks on behalf of the conservative judicial advocacy group Committee for Justice, reportedly accused Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, of “executing a vendetta”…
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News After World Pressure, Russia Abandons Investigation Denounced as ‘Blood Libel’
Prosecutors had been investigating the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia because of its role in publishing and distributing Russian translations of the Shulchan Aruch, the 16th-century code written by Rabbi Joseph Caro. The organization’s leader, Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, was questioned last week as part of an investigation reportedly launched at the…
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News Croatian Convert Speaks on Settlers’ Behalf
There were plenty of opportunities for Maayan Yadaiy to give up life in the Gazan settlement bloc of Gush Katif. The day after she moved to there, Yadiay, 27, was greeted by the frantic knocking of neighbors announcing Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to pull Israeli forces out of Gaza and relocate all of the Jewish…
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Israel News Broadway Star Mandy Patinkin Finds His Forte: Yiddish
The person responsible for Mandy Patinkin’s Yiddish education was neither a relative nor a Hebrew school teacher. It was legendary theater producer Joseph Papp. In the early 1990s, Papp approached Patinkin — already an acclaimed singer and stage performer — and asked him to sing in Yiddish at a benefit concert for the YIVO Institute…
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News Bollinger Gets Warm Reception at Seminary
When Lee Bollinger accepted an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary at the school’s May 18 commencement ceremony, the Columbia University president heard something that Jewish audiences have mostly withheld from him this year: applause. Since last fall, Bollinger has come under fire several times from critics who are upset with the university’s investigation…
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News Hecklers Nabbed VIP Seating With Help of (Former) Friend
After Prime Minister Sharon was interrupted by a handful of hecklers Sunday during a speech in New York, one of his high-profile hosts felt the need to apologize. “The noisy minority does not reflect the view of the vast majority,” said host James Tisch, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations….
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News Scandal Over Proselytizing Hits Air Force
The U.S. Air Force Academy is embroiled in a growing scandal over alleged religious coercion, following an investigation triggered by complaints from a Jewish student distressed over evangelical Christian proselytizing. Earlier this year, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based advocacy group launched an investigation. Its report alleges that academy leaders, including…
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News The Restaurateur’s Dilemma: To Open or To Close
It was close to midnight on a Sunday night last April when Jose Meirelles ordered his servers at Manhattan’s Le Marais restaurant to put down their trays and start the evening’s real work: preparing the restaurant for Passover. A specially hired crew was slated to arrive any minute to help with a whirlwind, overnight cleaning…
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