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…wxvo44z!MI:la kk-1 „A, m . Keeping The Meaning Alive All Through The Year It's been a few days now since we've switched from matzah to chametz. The hours and hours some of us spent searching for that last bread crumb is now filed away with those of other Passovers. Put away, like a box of kosher for Passover dishes in a remote part of the base- ment. By now almost all of us have a joke about nev- er wanting to see another piece of the "c...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook A Different Dayenu, A New Outlook Please Tell Us Your Camp Tamarack Story JEANNIE WEINER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR I have a Jewish friend who works with Hindus, Buddhists, Chris- tians of a variety of denominations and people of dif- ferent races. It is not uncommon for her to enter- tain these colleagues in her home, and she is scrupulous in her plan- ning to be certain that each gue...…
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…ZING /-) groups should never ban Israel's representatives. Instead, make them miserable. Every Israeli leader should be welcomed and then, in the finest of Jewish tra- ditions, yelled at after the em- brace. Fax them, mail them, get in their face if they refuse to con- front the issue. Reform and Conservative Jews also should skip absolutist de- mands and seek creative solu- tions for this 250-year-old dilemma. Don't ban Israeli leaders. Em...…
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…Can He Keep The Power? Israel's Prime Minister vows to stay the course, b ut will his allies follow? LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT lust because he wasn't in- minister, then was launched after media dicted doesn't mean that reports that a key coalition ally under- Israeli Prime Minister going a corruption trial pushed for Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu Bar-On's appointment in exchange for a agrees with the findings in controversial Cabinet vot...…
…AP PHOTO BY NATI HARNIK Unleashing The Ethnic Genie The dark side of the Bar-On Affair has the powerful religious Sephardic Party closer to Bibi — and blatantly anti-Zionist. INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT Jerusalem OD "[Zionism] is a heretical movement that wants to create a new Judaism," cried Shas leader Aryeh Deri at a rally four days after Israel's attorney general and state attorney announced that they would indict Mr. Deri, and...…
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