Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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News ‘Nazi’ Comments Spur Debate in El Paso
What do Nazi Germany, urban redevelopment and the specter of eminent domain in America’s largest border city have to do with one another? On the surface, it would seem, not very much. But in El Paso, Texas, where a political dispute over a proposed downtown redevelopment plan has spilled over into the ranks of the…
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News Clinton Attends Gala
Bill Clinton’s recent appearance at an American Jewish World Service gala fundraiser clocked in as the second Jewish-related event the former president has attended in a month. Before the June 13 event, where he accepted an award for his global humanitarian efforts, Clinton headlined a May fundraising dinner for American Friends of the Hebrew University….
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News Controversial Professor Loses Battle for Tenure
A controversial Jewish professor who claims that Israel and Jewish organizations have exploited the Holocaust for political and financial gain was denied tenure at DePaul University following a long-simmering feud that played out in the pages of the national media. Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science who makes regular appearances on American campuses…
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News Vitriol Proliferates on Jewish Blogs
When Richard Silverstein, a liberal Jewish blogger, claimed credit for shutting down an extremist right-wing Web site that listed the names of thousands of left-wing Jewish activists, the cyber-retribution was swift and harsh. Days after his blog posting went up in late March, Silverstein received an e-mail directing him to a defamatory Web site purporting…
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News Young Yiddishists Kvell At Retreat
“‘How does the cat get away from the snake?’ means ‘How the heck am I going to do this?’” Menachem Ejdelman told a crowd of rapt college students who were strewn on beat-up couches in a dormitory lounge. That phrase, first pronounced by Ejdelman in its original Yiddish, was among a handful that the 23-year-old…
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News British Professors Approve Israel Boycott
Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to pass a motion imploring its branches to circulate and discuss a…
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News Church-State Crusader Takes Aim at ROTC
In the latest battle in his war against proselytizing in the ranks of America’s military, Air Force veteran and church-state separation activist Mikey Weinstein is taking aim at the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Weinstein, who sued the Air Force in 2005 for religious coercion, is calling attention to a passage in the Junior ROTC’s curriculum…
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News Labor Woes Hit Memorial to East Side Wage Slaves
A few mornings a week, Tal Bar-Zemer dons a black floor-length skirt, white blouse, pinafore and lace-up leather boots in preparation for her job as a costumed interpreter at Manhattan’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum. On any given afternoon, she spends six to eight hours sitting in an overheated, cramped apartment, talking — in character…
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