Forward back issues from May 2003:
OUT OF IRAQ: A DOCUMENTARY
May 02, 2003; ... Brody, Erica Forward 05-02-2003 Screening some 176 films over seven days at 11 venues, the second Tribeca Film Festival arrives May 7 in downtown Manhattan. With an array of offerings as diverse as the city itself, the festival was started last May in response to the ...
U.S. Set To Verify Fulfillment of Peace Plan Requirements
May 02, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 05-02-2003 WASHINGTON -- A special addendum to the "road map," the American-led plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, says that the United States will take the lead in verifying that Israel and the Palestinians fulfill the plan's ...
TYLER, TOO; Greenspan's Limited Power To Fix the Economy
May 02, 2003; ... Tyler, Gus Forward 05-02-2003 The American economy is in trouble and seems to be headed for double trouble. Will the reappointment of Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan help to turn things around? Based on the record -- three consecutive terms of the Fed under ...
JUDAIKITSCH; On Yom Ha'atzmaut, Be Fashion Forward, for Pita's Sake!
May 02, 2003; ... Traig, Jennifer Forward 05-02-2003 Israel is known for many things -- great symphony, great security, great sightseeing -- but great style is not one of them. Sure, most modern Israelis dress to the nines, but in the popular imagination the Israeli national uniform remains a ...
Meet the Next Iman, Israel's Hottest Model Citizen
May 02, 2003; ... Phillips, Aliza Forward 05-02-2003 In Israel, Esti Mamu stands out in a crowd -- especially when the crowd is made up of the country's top models. For while British-born Naomi Campbell and Somalia-native Iman long ago set a new standard of beauty in the American and European ...
THE FOOD MAVEN; The Stove's On - It Must Be Chicken in the Pot; Disregarding the Bird's Appetite for Live Worms, Rabbis Deemed This Fowl Fair
May 02, 2003; ... Goodman, Matthew Forward 05-02-2003 Although a chicken cooking in a Jewish pot now seems about as natural and inevitable as the sun rising in the morning sky (and appear about as frequently), it might not necessarily have been so. The Bible never mentions chicken, and the ...
THE EAST VILLAGE MAMELE; Nursing Babies, Anxiety Too
May 02, 2003; ... Ingall, Marjorie Forward 05-02-2003 The subject of breast-feeding turns people into sputtering loons. At one end of the spectrum, there are the militant nursing activists (unfortunately known in mom circles as "breast-feeding Nazis"), who insist that women who choose not to ...
Marking Israel's Birthday in Music
May 02, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 05-02-2003 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 ...
NYU Center: New Addition to Growing Academic Field
May 02, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 05-02-2003 A $3.5 million center for modern Israel studies is about to open at New York University, the latest addition to a burgeoning academic field about Israel. The Taub Center for Israel Studies is set to be announced May 1 at NYU ...
For Sale: Strength, Excitement, Songfulness; An Auction of Isaac Stern's Instruments and Memorabilia
May 02, 2003; ... Bambarger, Bradley Forward 05-02-2003 Long revered as the savior and president of Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern was first and foremost a world-class violinist. Stern -- who passed away Sept. 22, 2001, at age 81 -- held as his prized possessions a pair of Guarnerius del Gesu ...
Tracing an Arc From Whitman to Glatshteyn; I Think of Our Lives; New and Selected Poems
May 02, 2003; ... Felstiner, John Forward 05-02-2003 I think of our lives -- Walt -- and they work something like this -- At Castle Garden -- where you heard Jenny Lind sing -- and where my grandparents came through as immigrants ... Richard Fein's lively, variegated poetry takes ...
'The White Man's Burden'; First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power
May 02, 2003; ... Marx, Claude R. Forward 05-02-2003 Warren Zimmermann has excellent timing. Taking to heart philosopher George Santayana's observation that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," the scholar and former diplomat has produced a timely and ...
Shouldering the World's Sorrows; A Mexican Choreographer Finds Inspiration in the 'Lamed-Vow'
May 02, 2003; ... Carman, Joseph Forward 05-02-2003 Joseph Carman writes about dance for The New York Times. In 1967, Jose Limon, one of a handful of choreographic geniuses of the 20th century, fervently immersed himself in creating his last great ballet. Nine months later, his final ...
THE DISPUTATION; Scripting the Scriptures
May 02, 2003; ... Klinghoffer, David Forward 05-02-2003 Jewish officialdom -- that small, cozy world of community leaders and other machers -- is already getting agitated by Mel Gibson's still-in-production Jesus movie. "The Passion" depicts the last 12 hours in the life of Christianity's ...
Buy the Settlers Out
May 02, 2003; ... Freedman, Marcia Forward 05-02-2003 The Palestinians insist that any final settlement to their conflict with Israel must include the establishment of a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza. The current government of Israel, for its part, has shown its reluctance to ...
The Globalization of Antisemitism
May 02, 2003; ... Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah Forward 05-02-2003 Antisemitism is evolving. After a period of remission owing to the horror of the Holocaust, the ancient prejudice has recently been reactivated, catalyzed by the Arab-Israeli conflict. It has entered a new era in which its main ...
THE HOUR; Newt Gingrich's 'Road Map'
May 02, 2003; ... Fein, Leonard Forward 05-02-2003 What can account for former House speaker Newt Gingrich's recent assault on the State Department? Gingrich, just eight years ago Time magazine's "Man of the Year," is these days largely reduced to self-promotion -- check his Web site at ...
Sanctimonium Santorum
May 02, 2003 ... Forward 05-02-2003 Playing the "gotcha" game is a dangerous political pastime. At best it puts public servants on the defensive, forcing them to measure every word and speak in pablum, impoverishing and degrading the public discourse. At worst an individual's words can be ...
Is Joe Bad for Jews? No, But Timidity Is
May 09, 2003; ... Forman, Ira Forward 05-09-2003 The American Jewish community may be the most politically sophisticated ethnic or religious group in America. After all, Jews -- who make up only 2% of the American populace -- are highly over-represented as voters, as contributors, as elected ...
THE IVORY TOWER; Mobilize the Homefront
May 09, 2003; ... Troy, Gil Forward 05-09-2003 George W. Bush's America -- like its loyal friend Israel -- has once again demonstrated the old saw that democracies are slow to anger, but once mobilized they are well-nigh unstoppable. Just as Israel did reluctantly and belatedly last spring, ...
Campaign Finance Goes to Court
May 09, 2003 ... Forward 05-09-2003 Some things never change. Liberals and good-government types were cheering last year when President Bush signed into law the heralded McCain-Feingold Bill, meant to limit the flow of big money into political campaigns. The cheers were premature. Last ...
Labor's Message
May 09, 2003 ... Forward 05-09-2003 Amram Mitzna appeared on the world stage last fall with the suddenness of a meteor when he was elected chairman of Israel's opposition Labor Party. His ignominious resignation this week, barely six months into his tenure, continues the meteoric metaphor ....
U.S. Favors Small Team To Monitor Road Map Progress
May 09, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 05-09-2003 The Bush administration is finalizing plans to send a team of monitors to verify the implementation by Israel and the Palestinians of the "road map" peace plan. The size and composition of that team, though, is a source ...
Congregation in Flap Over Activist
May 09, 2003; ... Treiman, Daniel Forward 05-09-2003 A New York synagogue known for its throngs of young congregants and liberal politics is scrambling to distance itself from an event it had been scheduled to host next month, honoring pro-Palestinian activist Adam Shapiro, following the ...
A DANCE IN EIGHT COLORS
May 09, 2003; ... Brody, Erica Forward 05-09-2003 A colorful new dance from the Neta Dance Company brings to life a fictional young woman pieced together from documentary-style reminiscences in the quirky and original "Rainbow Girl." The full-length work, making its world premiere at the Flea ...
Young Israel's Eviction Plans Draw Criticism
May 09, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 05-09-2003 A national organization charged with aiding Orthodox synagogues plans to sell its building and evict two congregations in the process. In a statement, leaders of one of the congregations accused the National Council of Young Israel of ...
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
May 09, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 05-09-2003 Florida Senator Bob Graham, one of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, may not be gaining as many contributors as he needs to win the party nod, if one Florida source is correct. "He's picked up a lot of people, but nothing near what ...
Muslim Clergymen Repudiate Schoolbooks' Bigoted Content
May 09, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 05-09-2003 Two of New York's most prominent Muslim clerics have publicly spoken out against antisemitic content in Islamic textbooks used in local Muslim schools, after the issue was brought to their attention by a group of Jewish community ...
Writer Discovers Romance in Kafka's Happiest Chapter
May 09, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 05-09-2003 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 ...
IN OTHER WORDS...
May 09, 2003; ... Rawls, Oren Forward 05-09-2003 French Gentleman's Agreement: In May 2001, David De Rothschild, scion of the French branch of the family banking dynasty, told an Israeli newspaper that despite reports to the contrary, he did not feel that France was drowning in a wave of ...
Illinois Senate Candidates Eyeing State's Jewish Voters
May 09, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 05-09-2003 Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes is considered the early favorite for the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed his state's Republican senator, Peter Fitzgerald, who decided last month not to run for re-election. The son of another ...
THE SITUATION; Mitzna Resignation Batters Labor, But Raises Unity Coalition Hopes
May 09, 2003; ... Shalev, Chemi Forward 05-09-2003 JERUSALEM -- The sudden resignation of Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna, just six months into his tenure, has opened up possibilities for the formation of a new Likud-Labor national unity government that could advance the Middle East peace ...
Movement Creates Shoah Scroll To Ritualize Holocaust Holiday
May 09, 2003; ... Gordon, Sheldon Forward 05-09-2003 TORONTO -- In a revolutionary attempt to ritualize the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Conservative movement has produced the first-ever formal liturgy for the holiday. Dubbed "Megillat Hashoah" -- "The Scroll of the ...
No Discussion Of Settlements, Diplomats Say
May 09, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 05-09-2003 WASHINGTON -- Despite the road map's requirement of Israeli steps toward a settlement construction freeze, Israel and the United States have not held any detailed discussions of the steps that would be involved in such a move, senior Israeli ...
U.K. Looks Inward as Its Boys Turn Up as Suicide Bombers
May 09, 2003; ... Greene, S.A. Forward 05-09-2003 LONDON -- The disclosure that two British citizens were involved in a Tel Aviv suicide attack has come as a shock to Britain. It has not, however, come as a surprise for British Jews. "I think we are saddened but not surprised," said Henry ...
In Post-Saddam Middle East, Now Is the Time for a Separated Peace
May 09, 2003; ... Pinkas, Alon Forward 05-09-2003 Ambassador Alon Pinkas is Israel's consul general in New York. While it is still too early for an accurate assessment of how America's toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq will change the Middle East, one thing is certain: The ...
White House Is Aiming To Raise Iranian Nukes At U.N. Security Council; Softer on U.N., Harder on Mullahs
May 09, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 05-09-2003 In a possible softening of its attitude toward the United Nations, the Bush administration has decided to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council. While it bypassed the world body to deal with Iraq ...
Fortunes Rise on Israeli Stock Exchange
May 09, 2003; ... Gardner, Gregg Forward 05-09-2003 Propelled by a quick American victory in Iraq and a dramatic government budget-cutting proposal, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is outperforming Wall Street this year. Since the beginning of the year, the benchmark index of the Israeli ...
TYLER, TOO; A Tax Break for the Poor Under Fire
May 09, 2003; ... Tyler, Gus Forward 05-09-2003 There are about 19 million Americans who at one time would have been dependent on what is disparagingly called a "handout" but who presently eke out a living at jobs that they normally would not -- or could not -- take. These millions are the ...
The Honey and the Sting
May 02, 2003 ... Forward 05-02-2003 There's a background music to Jewish life, if you listen for it. It's a ubiquitous melodic phrase that's heard at weddings in Haifa and bar mitzvahs in Houston. It's played to phone callers put on hold by synagogues and office suites in Toronto and Tel ...
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
May 02, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 05-02-2003 When CNN military analyst Wesley Clark -- a former general who is often mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential candidate -- took a new job recently as chairman of the board of WaveCrest Laboratories, pundits pronounced him out of ...
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA; Only in America; Building Bridges at a Unique Seder
May 02, 2003; ... Barron, Andrea Forward 05-02-2003 Every Passover, Jews begin telling the story of the exodus from Egypt by reciting the Four Questions, starting with, "Why is this night different from all other nights?" This year, one Seder I attended was different not simply because of the ...
Archive Offers Campus New Era
May 02, 2003; ... Richman, Josh Forward 05-02-2003 SAN FRANCISCO -- A mysterious discovery in a Holocaust survivor's attic is fueling hopes of a Jewish studies renaissance on a campus plagued by antisemitic protests last year. Leaders of San Francisco State University's Jewish studies ...
Exhibit Sheds Light on Nazi Suppression Of Free Speech
May 02, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 05-02-2003 WASHINGTON -- For the past decade, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has focused on the Nazi campaign to persecute and murder Europe's Jews. But this week, the museum marked its 10th anniversary by opening an exhibition on a topic that ...
Misquoted About Schools, Paige Is Hearing Apologies
May 02, 2003; ... Nir, Ori Forward 05-02-2003 WASHINGTON -- Two national Jewish organizations are apologizing to Education Secretary Rod Paige for their criticisms of him over a public endorsement of schools that teach "the values of the Christian community," after it was disclosed that he ...
Prolific Writer Awarded for Letters to the Editor
May 02, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 05-02-2003 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 ...
Israeli Ambassador Gets Down to Business at the U.N.
May 02, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 05-02-2003 UNITED NATIONS -- In the aristocratic world of the United Nations, where diplomats land appointments only after slowly climbing the ranks of their foreign services, Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman is a maverick. Gillerman is no career ...
IN OTHER WORDS...
May 02, 2003; ... Rawls, Oren Forward 05-02-2003 Alternate Route: "The Oslo accords, which were produced by direct negotiations, have collapsed and have been replaced by a violent interaction that the two sides cannot end by themselves," Martin Indyk writes in the May/June issue of the ...
'A Place...Close to Our Hearts': Millions Raised To Fix Up Camps
May 02, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 05-02-2003 TEREZIN, CZECH REPUBLIC -- Theresienstadt, the Nazis' "model" ghetto, whose remains were nearly washed away by the waters of the Elbe and Eger rivers in last August's disastrous floods, is on its way back to model condition. Thanks to the ...
Legal Twist: Crown Heights Killer Asking To Get Away With Murder
May 02, 2003; ... Kessler, E.J. Forward 05-02-2003 It was a legal tactic breathtaking in its chutzpah. Some compared it to the old joke about the fellow who murders his parents, then asks for the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. But few doubted it might work. Through 12 years ...
Jews' Role Murky As Rebel Banner Drops in Georgia
May 02, 2003; ... Zell, Jeff Forward 05-02-2003 ATLANTA -- Thanks to a last-second compromise reached by lawmakers last week, the state flag of Georgia is about to drop the notorious Confederate battle emblem for the first time in nearly 50 years.. The deal -- widely seen as a rebuke of ...
THE SITUATION; Some Happy 55th; Pessimism, A Strike and Same-Old Terror
May 02, 2003; ... Shalev, Chemi Forward 05-02-2003 JERUSALEM -- On the eve of the country's 55th Independence Day, most Israelis are in a somber and pessimistic mood, shackled by what they perceive as unbreakable military, political and economic chains. According to the newest polls, the ...
U.S. Groups Seek To Cast Peace `Map' As a Threat
May 02, 2003; ... Nor, Ori Forward 05-02-2003 WASHINGTON -- Despite American assurances that Israel will not be endangered by President Bush's "road map" to peace -- and despite Israel's in-principle acceptance of the road map -- several leading American-Jewish organizations are working to ...
Administration Said To Be Blocking Restitution Push; Lawyers Charge Bush Position Is War Payback
May 02, 2003; ... Cattan, Nacha Forward 05-02-2003 Holocaust survivors, a top Clinton administration official and a veteran congressman are warning that the Bush administration is undermining the fight to win compensation for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany. Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton ...
New Front Sets Sights On Toppling Iran Regime
May 16, 2003; ... Perelman, Marc Forward 05-16-2003 A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. For now, President Bush's official stance is to ...
TYLER, TOO; Execs Earn More Despite Lower Salaries
May 16, 2003; ... Tyler, Gus Forward 05-16-2003 A number of top corporate executives have opted for smaller salaries and some for no salary at all. The spotlight for this practice recently fell on William Clay Ford, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co. For the year 2002, ...
Upping the Ante: Poker Night Is for Real Men
May 09, 2003; ... Gross, Max Forward 05-09-2003 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 ...
THE EAST VILLAGE MAMELE; Mother's Day; A Contrarian View
May 09, 2003; ... Ingall, Marjorie Forward 05-09-2003 You've heard people express these sentiments before, so I'll just spit it out: Like many constitutionally cranky people, I find Mother's Day an irritating fake-o holiday suffused with a synthetic saccharin glow. Express your ...
Here's To You, Lula! Nanny, Role Model, Friend
May 09, 2003; ... Rose, Stacey Forward 05-09-2003 Concert pianist Stacey Rose, whose career has brought her throughout the U. S. and to more than eight countries around the world, performed a solo recital at the Center Church on the Green in New Haven, Conn., on April 5. The concert was a ...
Where Celebrity Meets the Mystical World; Kabbalah Centre Bash Heavy on Hype, Soft on Spirit; All Eyes on Madonna
May 09, 2003; ... Keys, Lisa Forward 05-09-2003 At the release party last month for the latest Kabbalah Centre tome, "The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul," the talk was not of Jewish mystical practices, but of Madonna. Madonna, Madonna! The Material Mom lent her unparalleled star ...
Wending Through the World of Yidishkayt
May 09, 2003; ... Brody, Erica Forward 05-09-2003 Eve Sicular began drumming when she was 8. But it wasn't until her senior year at Harvard -- she got her bachelor's in Russian history and literature -- that she first heard klezmer. She followed the suggestion of a musician friend and checked ...
Must Women Wear Perfume? Reading the Women of the Bible; A New Interpretation of Their Stories; Midrashic Women; Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
May 09, 2003; ... Hauptman, Judith Forward 05-09-2003 For a largely androcentric book, the Bible has more stories about women than one would expect. There are fewer female characters than male characters and, with minor exceptions, women do not fill political positions. They sheltered the ...
Making the Heart Seize; Contemporary Art Delivers an Emotional Wallop in New Exhibit
May 09, 2003; ... Freidman, Bonnie Forward 05-09-2003 Each piece at the Jewish Museum's new exhibit, "Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions," encourages a kind of absorbed study and many of them, once surrendered to, deliver a real emotional wallop. This is refreshing. Many of us are left ...
Not Your Father's Klezmer -- But Neither Was His; The Book of Klezmer; The History, The Music, The Folklore; American Klezmer; Its Roots and Offshoots; The Twelve Tribes; The South Klezmer Suite; ...
May 09, 2003; ... Rogovoy, Seth Forward 05-09-2003 Seth Rogovoy is the author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music." Klezmer music is like pornography and spirituality: Everyone knows it when they hear it, but few agree upon just what it ...
The Wonder That Is Israel
May 09, 2003; ... Harris, David A. Forward 05-09-2003 Israel's 55th birthday this week is a time to step back, if just for a moment, from the whirlwind of daily events -- terrorist attacks against Israelis, road map prognostications, internal Palestinian maneuvering, Labor Party changes in ...