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…In Contention Stats aside, the Jewish vote will continue to be targeted by the main political parties. RON KAM PEAS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington he past four years have seen a defining terror- ist attack, a divisive war and a radically differ- ent economy. • But at the ballot box, it seemed, not much had changed: Election night produced pretty much the same electoral map, pretty much the same angry, polarized nation and pretty much ...…
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…MIXED MINYAN from page 17 date, former U.S. Rep. Eric Fingerhut, to win re-election. In Florida, Jan Schneider was unsuc- cessful in a second attempt to defeat Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., Florida's secretary of state in the controversial 2000 recount. In New Hampshire, Paul Hodes, a Jewish Democrat, lost a bid against the incumbent Republican Rep. Charles Bass. In Virginia, David Ashe was unsuccessful in his race to replace Rep. Edward Sc...…
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…Arts Life CLASSICAL NOTES The University of Michigan School of Music Opera Theatre presents Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel, based on the Grimm fairy tale and translated into English, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11-14, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. $9-$20. (734) 764-2538. University Musical Society hosts the Kopelman Quartet, led by Russian-born violinist Mikhail Kopelman perform...…
…1 1 m No pa FO rt Kap October 13- November 14, 2004 Reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5. (248) 333-7849. The Detroit Institute of Arts pres- ents This Is Your Land: American Landscape Prints, featuring 19th- and 20th-century prints in all media from three series: John Hill's Russian immigrant Ida Rosenthal invent- ed the modern brassiere. Her story will be told on the Nov. 15 installment of PBS's "They Made America." 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7....…
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