Forward back issues from April 2003:
THE FOOD MAVEN; When Hearty Gefilte Fish Kept Shtetls Stuffed
Apr 04, 2003;
Million-Dollar Psychic Challenge Awaits Brooklyn Girl
Apr 04, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 04-04-2003 Eleven-Year-Old Russian Immigrant Prepares To Battle Skeptics With Both Eyes Closed It will be the rematch of the year. In one corner is Natalia Lulova, an 11-year-old Jewish immigrant from St. Petersburg, Russia -- now living in ...
Holiday Kashrut for Critters
Apr 04, 2003 ... Forward 04-04-2003 When cleaning for Passover, don't forget the needs of sweet Fido. Or Garfield. Or Tweety. Or whatever your canine/feline/avian family member is named. While the Talmud instructs that pet owners are allowed to feed non-kosher food to their furry or ...
Reading of Noah, Artists, Holidays And Einstein, Too
Apr 04, 2003; ... Phillips, Aliza Forward 04-04-2003 The Haggada may be Passover's great book, but it's not the only great thing to read this season. The start of spring brings with it a new stash of stories for all your bundles of joy. For the younger set, children's publishing giant ...
THE FOOD MAVEN; When Hearty Gefilte Fish Kept Shtetls Stuffed
Apr 04, 2003; ... Goodman, Matthew Forward 04-04-2003 Gefilte fish is at once the zenith and nadir of Ashkenazic cookery: Is there any other dish that so typifies its extraordinary resourcefulness in the Old World and its long decline in the New? Gefilte fish is a forcemeat -- chopped and ...
THE EAST VILLAGE MAMELE; Mom's Seder: The Next Generation
Apr 04, 2003; ... Ingall, Marjorie Forward 04-04-2003 My parents sold their house, my childhood home. (I have issues about this, but I'll deal with them in therapy rather than in this column.) Their new apartment is large enough to hold a brisket and a large matzo ball, but ...
A Generation's Lost Voice; Remembering the Life of a 'True Friend and a Good Writer'
Apr 04, 2003; ... Waldman, Ayelet Forward 04-04-2003 On March 14, the writer Amanda Davis and both her parents were killed in a small plane crash outside of Asheville, N.C., on the way to promote the publication of her first novel. Amanda, 32, was my close friend. Since that day, the title of ...
Questioning the Myth of Passivity
Apr 04, 2003; ... Sandler, Boris Forward 04-04-2003 Boris Sandler, editor of the Yiddish Forward, is the author of "Nothing Is New Under the Sun," a novel based on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, which is currently being translated into English. Sandler, 53, was born in Belz and educated in ...
Ghost-Painting Grandfather's Story To Understand His Own
Apr 04, 2003; ... Saul, Jack Forward 04-04-2003 Jack Saul is a psychologist on the faculty of New York University's School of Medicine and director of its international trauma studies program. He lectures around the world on mental health and human rights, treatment of survivors of political ...
Kishinev 1903: The Birth of a Century; Reconsidering the 49 Deaths That Galvanized a Generation and Changed Jewish History
Apr 04, 2003; ... Goldberg, J.J. Forward 04-04-2003 One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish history. Provoked by a medieval blood ...
How To Make Yeshiva Day School Tuition Affordable
Apr 04, 2003; ... Lamm, Shalom Forward 04-04-2003 The American Orthodox Jewish community has enjoyed decades of freedom, strength, growth and self-confidence unprecedented in the history of the Diaspora. We are the freest Jews in virtually every respect in at least the last 2,500 years. There ...
BOTH SIDES; 'Road Map' to Peace...or Undue Pressure?
Apr 04, 2003; ... Lender, Marvin Forward 04-04-2003 In recent days, groups of pro-Israel activists have begun voicing alarm, mostly in private, over the prospect that the "road map," the plan backed by the Bush administration for addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is nearing ...
THE DISPUTATION; Shame on Envious Anti-Americanism
Apr 04, 2003; ... Klinghoffer, David Forward 04-04-2003 `A man," the Talmud teaches us, "envies everyone but his son and his student." In all the talk surrounding the war in Iraq, the pervasiveness of envy and a related emotion, shame, has gotten far less attention than it deserves. We ...
THE IVORY TOWER; 'Soprano' Zionism
Apr 04, 2003; ... Troy, Gil Forward 04-04-2003 My grandmother used to sigh, "Shver tsu zayn a yid" -- it's tough to be a Jew. These days, though, it's even tougher to be a Zionist. It is an act of triple-chutzpah. Diaspora Zionists risk the opprobrium of anti-Zionists who libel Zionism ...
The Debate Debate
Apr 04, 2003 ... Forward 04-04-2003 As America's generals scramble to regroup for a battle more bloody than any envisioned and Republicans in Washington agonize over what went wrong and why, the American public is descending into a more basic and ugly debate over the very legitimacy of ...
Naming the Plague
Apr 04, 2003 ... Forward 04-04-2003 It's possible, just possible, that there's nothing more than coincidence behind the shocking increase in antisemitic incidents in various parts of the world during the last year. The surge may be entirely unconnected to the terrorist attacks of September ...
Israeli Budget Cuts May Leave New Immigrants Without Homes
Apr 04, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 04-04-2003 The Jewish Agency for Israel is arguing that Israel's new austerity plan would cut immigration absorption programs so drastically as to discourage aliya and prevent needy arrivals from ever leaving absorption centers. The chief complaint ...
THE SITUATION; Netanyahu's Austerity Plan Comes Under Fire From Labor Groups
Apr 04, 2003; ... Shalev, Chemi Forward 04-04-2003 JERUSALEM -- Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Israel is teetering on the edge of an economic abyss and desperately needs an emergency rescue plan. His critics counter that his proposed cure, a stiff austerity package ...
Drawing Peace In the Middle East; Super Men Replace Superman As the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Invades Comics
Apr 11, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 04-11-2003 The worst-kept secret of the comic book industry of the last six decades has been the genre's Jewish subtext. Call it the superheroes' secret Jewish identities, going back to a couple of ghetto kids in pre-World War II Cleveland who created ...
Britain's Disingenuous Iraq-Israel Linkage
Apr 11, 2003; ... Foxman, Abraham Forward 04-11-2003 In announcing his resignation from the post of British foreign secretary out of opposition to the war with Iraq, Robin Cook said: "I have heard it said Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to complete disarmament, and that our ...
Dangers of a Drawn-out War
Apr 11, 2003; ... Van Creveld, Martin Forward 04-11-2003 Sixty-two years ago this week, on April 6, 1941, Germany went to war against Yugoslavia. Then, as now in Iraq, a small country served as a vital source of raw materials -- in the case of Yugoslavia, nonferrous metals -- to a ...
THE HOUR; And Social Justice for All
Apr 11, 2003; ... Fein, Leonard Forward 04-11-2003 In case you haven't noticed -- but of course, you have -- these are not the best of times. There are even those who assert they are the worst of times, but on the perfectly reasonable supposition that things can always get still worse, I ...
The Time of Our Freedom
Apr 11, 2003 ... Forward 04-11-2003 Passover, the festival of freedom that begins this coming week, is not the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, but it's arguably the best-loved. Its powerful tale of liberation from Egyptian slavery, the oldest freedom struggle on record, is traditionally ...
Crossing the Line
Apr 11, 2003 ... Forward 04-11-2003 Whatever one's views on the proper location of the line separating church and state -- and there is legitimate room for debate -- it's clear that the line was crossed this week by President Bush's education secretary, Rod Paige, when he called in a ...
A Monumental Failure at Belzec
Apr 11, 2003; ... Weiss, Avi Forward 04-11-2003 Several years ago the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum decided to build a Holocaust memorial for the 600,000 Jews murdered at Belzec. Last June, I warned on these pages that "Despite assurances by museum officials that `we are being ...
Shame and the Congo
Apr 11, 2003 ... Forward 04-11-2003 The numbers are in. Our shame can now be quantified. At least 3.3 million people have been killed in the pointless, genocidal warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the last four and a half years, while most of us were looking elsewhere ....
ZOA Protests Campus Speaking Engagements by Tutu
Apr 11, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 04-11-2003 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 ...
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Apr 11, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 04-11-2003 Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who has positioned himself as the most antiwar of the top Democratic presidential contenders, is insisting that he did not mean to cast aspersions on the New York metropolitan area -- or its Jews -- when ...
Marine Corporal Fatally Shot in Action in Iraq
Apr 11, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 04-11-2003 "He was a gung-ho, macho guy, and also very soft-hearted," Rabbi Max Wall said of his grandson, Marine Corporal Mark Asher Evnin, who was killed in action in Iraq on April 3. The 21-year old Vermont resident was a scout sniper with the 1st ...
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK; Think Tank Deliberates 'World War III'
Apr 11, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 04-11-2003 Senior politicians, academics and intelligence and law enforcement officials gathered Sunday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for the launching of the Strategic Dialogue Center, a think tank affiliated with Netanya College in Israel. The ...
Foreign Policy Scholars Criticize Pipes Nomination
Apr 11, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 04-11-2003 WASHINGTON -- Foreign policy hands and Middle East pundits responded with surprise and disbelief this week to the presidential nomination of Daniel Pipes, an outspoken Middle East hawk, to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a ...
Ethiopian Leader Alleges Discrimination
Apr 11, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 04-11-2003 A leader of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is petitioning the Israeli Supreme Court, claiming the government discriminated against her by denying her a job because of her political party affiliation. Negist Mengesha claims she ...
Dishing the Dirt on Fashion Industry: Fact or Fiction?
Apr 11, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 04-11-2003 This week, the critical, expertly lined eyes of the fashion elite will be trained on Lauren Weisberger. It's not because Weisberger is tall, blond and happens to look great in a pair of slim-fitting Seven jeans. She has found fame not with ...
IN OTHER WORDS...
Apr 11, 2003; ... Rawls, Oren Forward 04-11-2003 No Kidding: Hebrew University professor Omer Moav has devised an economic formula to combat global poverty: Fewer kids equals more wealth. "Why is rapid population growth bad for a country's standard of living?", the Jerusalem-based ...
Minnesota Ethics Case Turns Into Shoah History Lesson
Apr 11, 2003; ... Gilyard, Burl Forward 04-11-2003 ST. PAUL -- The ethics committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives met this week to hear the case of a Republican colleague under fire for repeatedly suggesting that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Part history ...
Wave of Antisemitic Crime Continues To Rise in France
Apr 04, 2003 ... Forward 04-04-2003 Violent hate crimes in France quadrupled in 2002 over the year before, rising to their highest level in a decade, according to a new report by the National Consulting Committee on Human Rights. More than half the assaults were aimed at Jews. A ...
Bush Administration Scores Diplomatic Victory at U.N.
Apr 04, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 04-04-2003 UNITED NATIONS -- While the whole world was transfixed by military maneuvers in Iraq, the Bush administration scored a major victory on the diplomatic battlefield at the United Nations. Last Thursday, despite widespread resentment over the ...
Quiet Cooperation as U.S., Iran Battle Common Enemy
Apr 04, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 04-04-2003 Despite their declared enmity and public clashes over terrorism and nuclear reactors, Tehran and Washington have been quietly cooperating in waging the war on their common enemy, Saddam Hussein. To be sure, Defense Secretary Donald ...
WELCOME TO WASHINGTON
Apr 04, 2003 ... Forward 04-04-2003 U.S. Presses Israel on India Deal Under American pressure, Israel grudgingly has agreed to suspend the sale of an advanced airborne radar warning system to India. Washington fears that the sale will increase tensions between India and Pakistan, as ...
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Apr 04, 2003; ... Treiman, Daniel Forward 04-04-2003 The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is adding staff. The campaign has tapped Jay Footlik, chief liaison to the Jewish community for the Clinton White House during the mid-1990s, as its director of community ...
Reform Parley Raps Bush Domestic Agenda
Apr 04, 2003; ... Treiman, Daniel Forward 04-04-2003 WASHINGTON -- While thousands of pro-Israel activists gathered a short distance away for the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, with many voicing support for the Bush administration's handling of foreign ...
D.P. Moynihan as 'American Cincinnatus'; Legislator Built Bridge Between Academia, Policy To Shape History
Apr 04, 2003; ... Bradley, Bill Forward 04-04-2003 Sir Isaiah Berlin wrote of the classic Greek dichotomy between the fox and the hedgehog. The fox knows a lot about many things, but the hedgehog knows everything about one big thing. In his own way Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the foxiest ...
TYLER, TOO; Put the French Back in Fries
Apr 04, 2003; ... Tyler, Gus Forward 04-04-2003 The eatery where the members of Congress go for their chow no longer serves "french fries," serving "freedom fries" instead. This dramatic and dizzying deed is not without precedent. During World War I, sauerkraut (a German word) was changed ...
Push for Evangelical Ties Splits Crowd
Apr 04, 2003; ... Zell, Jeff Forward 04-04-2003 ATLANTA -- Reviews were mixed in the heart of the New South, as 300 people packed a posh hotel ballroom to hear a pitch from two leading proponents of stronger ties between Jews and Evangelical Christians. Of the two main speakers, it was ...
Hearing To Probe Pol's Denial That Nazis Persecuted Gays
Apr 04, 2003; ... Eden, Ami Forward 04-04-2003 The Minnesota state legislature is set to hold an ethics hearing next week concerning one Republican member's repeated claims that homosexuals were not persecuted by the Nazis. Democrats will argue in front of the ethics committee of the ...
Foxhole Mitzvah: Ranking Rabbi Heads to Front
Apr 04, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 04-04-2003 With a gentle voice, a doughy, pleasant face and a knit yarmulke atop thinning brown hair, Mitchell Ackerson is a sort of Every Man's Rabbi. Except for the camouflage uniform, that is. The senior chaplain for the 220th Military. Police ...
IN OTHER WORDS...Of Noteworthy Items in the Press
Apr 04, 2003; ... Rawls, Oren Forward 04-04-2003 Noam Echad: As a child, he summered at Camp Massad in the Poconos, where he organized Zionist youth groups and wooed his future wife with his fluency in Hebrew. He developed an analysis of modern Hebrew grammar for his undergraduate and ...
Iraq War Pushes Little-Known Assyrians to Fore
Apr 04, 2003; ... Shapiro, Simona Forward 04-04-2003 CHICAGO -- Waving American flags, more than 400 people gathered last Sunday in Chicago's Warren Park, carrying signs that read "God Bless America." At first glance, the scene was unremarkable in this time of rallies for and against the war ....
'Beautiful Things': Drug Sting Nabs Chasidic Kingpin
Apr 04, 2003; ... McGraw, Seamus Forward 04-04-2003 Natan Banda seemed perfectly at ease as he slid his car into a parking space on a shadowy Washington Heights side street last July and shut off the engine. The 31-year-old businessman with addresses in the chasidic communities of Kiryas Joel ...
Cruise Control; Everything's shipshape on all-kosher yacht
Apr 04, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 04-04-2003 On a recent Caribbean cruise aboard the MSY WindSurf -- the largest yacht among Holland America's upscale WindStar fleet -- the talk on deck was about war, nannies and the country's best Catholic schools. Sunburned blondes lingered over a ...
ADL: Antisemitic Incidents Soar in N. California
Apr 04, 2003; ... Richman, Josh Forward 04-04-2003 OAKLAND, Calif. -- Antisemitic incidents soared 800% in Northern California last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League's annual audit released last week. Northern California logged only 13 events in 2001 but saw 117 in ...
Foreign Minister Brings Word Of Concessions on 'Road Map'
Apr 04, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 04-04-2003 WASHINGTON -- Despite its public criticisms of the internationally sponsored "road map" to Middle East peace, the Israeli government quietly has agreed to accept the plan and help shore up the new Palestinian prime minister. These ...
Israel, Activists Train Sights on Syria; Lobby To Focus On Preventing Missile Transfer
Apr 04, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 04-04-2003 Openly pleased with the Bush administration's recent warnings to Syria not to aid Iraq, Israel and its supporters here have begun ratcheting up their accusations against its radical neighbor in apparent hopes of widening the rift between ...
Democrats Hone Appeal At Parleys In Capital
Apr 04, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 04-04-2003 WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Joseph Lieberman came out swinging left on Monday, invoking the name of liberal icon Paul Wellstone as he told a conference here that he would work to pass a bill mandating spousal ...
National Population Survey Postponed - Again
Apr 11, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 04-11-2003 The National Jewish Population Survey, the $6 million study whose release was postponed last November so that its methods could be reviewed, has been postponed again for a second review. The new delay means that the survey, commissioned ...
For Jewish Soldiers, Base Is Lonely Place; Why Specialist Cohen Feels a Little Isolated
Apr 11, 2003; ... Kushner, Aviya Forward 04-11-2003 IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Since getting the call to leave Long Island and fly to an army base somewhere in the Mid-western corn belt, where she's in final combat training exercises before heading to Iraq, Specialist Joanna Cohen has had plenty of ...
Report: 3.3 Million Dead in Africa's Bloodiest Conflict
Apr 11, 2003; ... Treiman, Daniel Forward 04-11-2003 An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group. The International Rescue ...
With 'Road Map' Set, Battle Shifts To Its Implementation
Apr 11, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 04-11-2003 Having apparently failed to secure any changes to the internationally sponsored "road map" to peace, Israel and its supporters in Washington are gearing up for diplomatic battles over the plan's implementation. The Israeli government ...
Jerusalem Urges Bush: Next Target Hezbollah; Warns of Threat To U.S. Security
Apr 11, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 04-11-2003 WASHINGTON -- Israel is urging the Bush administration to target Hezbollah following the war in Iraq, arguing that the militant Shiite organization threatens the stability of the Middle East and the security of the United States ...
Joe Claims Cash Surge, Reversing Slow Start
Apr 11, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 04-11-2003 After a faltering start in the first quarter of the year, the presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman raked in between $300,000 and $400,000 in contributions during the first week of April, more than it received in the ...
Achieving Peace in Iraq Requires Staying the Course on Democracy
Apr 11, 2003; ... Byman, Daniel, Pollack, Kenneth Forward 04-11-2003 Daniel Byman is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Kenneth Pollack is director of research at the Saban Center and author of "The Threatening Storm: The Case for ...
JUDAIKITSCH; Let My People Go - Out To Eat
Apr 11, 2003; ... Traig, Jennifer Forward 04-11-2003 Ah, Passover. Moses demanded, "Let my people go." We're tempted to add, "out to eat." We find it terribly ironic that we celebrate our freedom from bondage by observing dietary restrictions that are the food equivalent of an electronic ...
Take-out Chinese, Anyone? One Family Says, 'Last Year in Beijing'
Apr 11, 2003; ... Frank, Linda Forward 04-11-2003 Linda Frank is a writer living in Denver. When Moses and the children of Israel hastily left Egypt, they had to worry about that weird bread that didn't rise and how to cross the Red Sea pursued by Pharaoh's soldiers. The last-minute ...
THE WONDERS OF AMERICA; A Celebration Of Ingenuity In Advertising
Apr 11, 2003; ... Joselit, Jenna Weissman Forward 04-11-2003 In contemporary America, Passover is the occasion for many things, from a sudden appetite for gefilte fish to a momentary burst of attention to ritual. It has also been the occasion for extraordinary moments of creativity when it ...
Picking the Perfect Passover Wine: Chilean Red With the Roast?
Apr 11, 2003; ... Brody, Erica Forward 04-11-2003 As the Seder draws near, Jews of all stripes become oenophiles, setting out to stores to choose the perfect wine for their Passover meals. As with the meals themselves, which by now include vegetarian and gourmet selections as well as the ...