Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Duke, in Prison, Appeals for Cash
David Duke has initiated yet another fundraising drive — from prison. The former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi sympathizer, who is serving a 15-month sentence in the Big Spring federal prison in Texas, is asking for contributions to promote his latest book, an attack on Jews and Israel titled “Jewish Supremacism.”…
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News Writer Discovers Romance in Kafka’s Happiest Chapter
Kathi Diamant didn’t really like Franz Kafka when she first read him. Even today — more than 30 years after she first read “The Metamorphosis” — she doesn’t express the kind of veneration one would expect from the director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University. “I prefer Kafka’s personal writing to his…
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Israel News Upping the Ante: Poker Night Is for Real Men
For a while the Hapless Jewish Writer nursed the delusion that he was not a bad poker player. You might say it began one night in Israel, when he relieved his Israeli and American co-players of more than a hundred shekels (about $25). He was euphoric. As it turns out, it shouldn’t have surprised the…
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News Prolific Writer Awarded for Letters to the Editor
Stephen A. Silver knows how to get his name in print. He is the recipient of a media watch group’s Letter Writer of the Year Award because of the dozens of letters he published in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world on behalf of Israel. Silver, who lives in Concord, Calif., is one of…
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News Marking Israel’s Birthday in Music
Five years ago, singer Noa marked Israeli Independence Day by appearing at a concert in Philadelphia’s CoreState Stadium. Performing with Tony Bennett and opera singer Kathleen Battle, and backed up by the Philadelphia Symphony, she stood before 20,000 cheering guests in tuxedoes and evening gowns. For Noa, it was a night to remember. The optimism…
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News Retiring to the City That Never Sleeps
Judy Goldman was restless. Goldman, 65, had spent most of her life in Houston, where she raised her family, but after her husband died in 1989 and her children went off to college, Goldman wasn’t sure how to fill her days. She went back to school to become a registered nurse, but she found the…
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Israel News Fugitive Saddam May Have Changed His Look
One never had to walk more than a block or two in Baghdad to see the ubiquitous image of Saddam Hussein. In large, colorful murals on campuses and in hotel lobbies and mosques, Saddam pasted his image all over Iraq. The dictator with the bandit mustache could be seen in a scholar’s cap and gown,…
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News ZOA Protests Campus Speaking Engagements by Tutu
The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the…
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