http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:50:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/tasting-bouillabaisse-around-manhattan-1328854213/ http://www.jewpi.com/tasting-bouillabaisse-around-manhattan-1328854213/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tasting-bouillabaisse-around-manhattan-1328854213/ THERE are many ways to stay warm throughout a New York City winter. You can crank up the heat, layer on the clothes, hunker down by a fireplace or follow my fail-proof method and tuck into a steaming bowl of bouillabaisse. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-middle-east-egypt-18-border-guards-abducted-1328849415/ http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-middle-east-egypt-18-border-guards-abducted-1328849415/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:50:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-middle-east-egypt-18-border-guards-abducted-1328849415/ Bedouin tribesmen kidnapped 18 Egyptian border guards in the Sinai along the Israeli border on Thursday, security officials said. The officials said the kidnapping was retaliation for the killing of a fellow Bedouin, a smuggler, as he tried to sneak into Israel days ago. The officials said there were negotiations for the guards’ release. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bishops-planned-battle-on-birth-control-coverage-rule-1328847013/ http://www.jewpi.com/bishops-planned-battle-on-birth-control-coverage-rule-1328847013/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bishops-planned-battle-on-birth-control-coverage-rule-1328847013/ When after much internal debate the Obama administration finally announced its decision to require religiously affiliated hospitals and universities to cover birth control in their insurance plans, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops were fully prepared for battle. Related Birth Control Is Covered, and G.O.P. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jordan-protests-whisper-of-an-arab-spring-1328846412/ http://www.jewpi.com/jordan-protests-whisper-of-an-arab-spring-1328846412/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:00:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jordan-protests-whisper-of-an-arab-spring-1328846412/ KARAK, Jordan — Beneath a statue of a glowering Saladin, the medieval Islamic warrior, a crowd unfurled banners and began chanting protests against the country’s leadership in its palaces and government offices far below the precipices of this ancient fortress town. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/art-review-testimonios-popular-arts-at-el-museo-del-barrio-1328836925/ http://www.jewpi.com/art-review-testimonios-popular-arts-at-el-museo-del-barrio-1328836925/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:22:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/art-review-testimonios-popular-arts-at-el-museo-del-barrio-1328836925/ As permanent collections go, El Museo del Barrio’s is on the modest side. The museum’s Web site puts the tally of objects it owns at just 6,500, a far cry from the Met’s nearly two million. Multimedia Slide Show ‘Testimonios’ Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/books-of-the-times-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-stories-by-nathan-englander-1328836325/ http://www.jewpi.com/books-of-the-times-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-stories-by-nathan-englander-1328836325/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:12:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/books-of-the-times-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-stories-by-nathan-englander-1328836325/ “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” the title story of Nathan Englander’s new collection, deliberately alludes to Raymond Carver’s classic tale “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” But while Mr. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-10-16-1328830728/ http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-10-16-1328830728/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:38:48 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-10-16-1328830728/ Around Town Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Go to Arts Beat » A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-caucus-giffordss-aide-to-run-for-seat-in-special-election-1328818139/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-caucus-giffordss-aide-to-run-for-seat-in-special-election-1328818139/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:08:59 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-caucus-giffordss-aide-to-run-for-seat-in-special-election-1328818139/ Ron Barber, a top aide to retired Representative Gabrielle Giffords , who was wounded in a shooting that nearly took her life, announced on Thursday that he would seek Ms. Giffords’s vacated Arizona House seat in a special election June 12. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-negotiators-report-progress-in-strike-talks-1328809208/ http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-negotiators-report-progress-in-strike-talks-1328809208/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:40:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-negotiators-report-progress-in-strike-talks-1328809208/ JERUSALEM — A two-day-old general strike in Israel that shut ports, government offices, some banks, museums and parts of hospitals appeared headed toward resolution on Thursday as negotiators for the Finance Ministry and the main trade union said they had made progress. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-europe-france-shalit-meets-with-sarkozy-1328771528/ http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-europe-france-shalit-meets-with-sarkozy-1328771528/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:12:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/world-briefing-europe-france-shalit-meets-with-sarkozy-1328771528/ In a rare public outing, Gilad Shalit , the Israeli soldier released by Hamas in October after more than five years in captivity, was received by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday. The meeting, which included Mr. Shalit’s parents, Noam and Aviva, came during Mr. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-and-israel-split-over-how-to-deter-iran-1328761942/ http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-and-israel-split-over-how-to-deter-iran-1328761942/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:32:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-and-israel-split-over-how-to-deter-iran-1328761942/ WASHINGTON — Amid mounting tensions over whether Israel will carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program , the United States and Israel remain at odds over a fundamental question: whether Iran ‘s crucial nuclear facilities are about to become impregnable. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iran-defiant-in-face-of-sanctions-1328752816/ http://www.jewpi.com/iran-defiant-in-face-of-sanctions-1328752816/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iran-defiant-in-face-of-sanctions-1328752816/ Iran ‘s top leaders displayed a public mix of bravado and defiance on Wednesday in the face of the West’s tightened antinuclear sanctions, using the impending 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution to denounce the United States, the European Union and Israel as colonialist bullies. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-in-the-maldives-strangled-democracy-1328736728/ http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-in-the-maldives-strangled-democracy-1328736728/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:32:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-in-the-maldives-strangled-democracy-1328736728/ Male, Maldives DICTATORSHIPS don’t always die when the dictator leaves office. The wave of revolutions that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year was certainly cause for hope. 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Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-to-weaken-iran-start-with-syria-1328672409/ http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-to-weaken-iran-start-with-syria-1328672409/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributor-to-weaken-iran-start-with-syria-1328672409/ Jerusalem Related News Russian Envoy Calls Syria Visit ‘Very Productive’ (February 8, 2012) Times Topic: Syria — Protests (2011–) THE public debate in America and Israel these days is focused obsessively on whether to attack Iran in order to halt its Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/radical-muslim-americans-pose-little-threat-study-says-1328670017/ http://www.jewpi.com/radical-muslim-americans-pose-little-threat-study-says-1328670017/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:00:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/radical-muslim-americans-pose-little-threat-study-says-1328670017/ WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-dolce-suono-ensemble-at-symphony-space-1328662210/ http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-dolce-suono-ensemble-at-symphony-space-1328662210/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-dolce-suono-ensemble-at-symphony-space-1328662210/ Composers have long set poetry to music, but using a letter as text, as Steven Mackey did in a work performed by the Dolce Suono Ensemble at Symphony Space on Monday evening, is less common. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/restaurant-review-kutshers-tribeca-nyc-restaurant-review-1328659457/ http://www.jewpi.com/restaurant-review-kutshers-tribeca-nyc-restaurant-review-1328659457/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:04:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/restaurant-review-kutshers-tribeca-nyc-restaurant-review-1328659457/ IF Kutsher’s Tribeca were a musical, it would be “Springtime for Hitler.” Details & Reader Reviews Kutsher’s Tribeca » Multimedia Slide Show Kutsher’s Tribeca Related Diner’s Journal: Five Dishes at Kutsher’s Tribeca (February 7, 2012) This is, Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/timescast-timescast-february-7-2012-1328642168/ http://www.jewpi.com/timescast-timescast-february-7-2012-1328642168/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:16:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/timescast-timescast-february-7-2012-1328642168/ Home PageToday’s PaperVideoMost PopularTimes Topics Slide Shows »Podcasts » Search Video Video Latest VideoTimesCastBest of 2011Editors’ ChoiceBreaking NewsWorldAfricaAmericasAsia PacificEuropeMiddle EastAt WarHaitiU.S.American AlbumPoliticsElection NightBarack ObamaNBC NewsThe Ad CampaignN.Y. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/artsbeat-london-theater-journal-revenge-served-sticky-and-cleanly-staged-comedy-1328634139/ http://www.jewpi.com/artsbeat-london-theater-journal-revenge-served-sticky-and-cleanly-staged-comedy-1328634139/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:02:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/artsbeat-london-theater-journal-revenge-served-sticky-and-cleanly-staged-comedy-1328634139/ Keith Pattison Alex Beckett, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Jessica Raine in the Young Vic’s production of “The Changeling.” LONDON – The habits of the nursery die hard in this country, so I suppose it’s too much to expect the British to stop playing with their food on stage. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/irans-middle-class-on-edge-as-international-tensions-rise-1328585428/ http://www.jewpi.com/irans-middle-class-on-edge-as-international-tensions-rise-1328585428/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:30:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/irans-middle-class-on-edge-as-international-tensions-rise-1328585428/ TEHRAN — One measure of the profound anxiety now coursing through Iranian society can be seen on Manouchehri Street, a winding lane at the heart of this city where furtive crowds of men gather every day like drug dealers to buy and sell American dollars. Related Obama Imposes Freeze on Iran Property in U.S. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/waiting-in-the-wings-a-survivor-of-three-decades-of-syrian-politics-1328570437/ http://www.jewpi.com/waiting-in-the-wings-a-survivor-of-three-decades-of-syrian-politics-1328570437/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:20:37 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/waiting-in-the-wings-a-survivor-of-three-decades-of-syrian-politics-1328570437/ The diplomatic struggle over the Arab League ‘s peace proposal for Syria has nearly obscured an important detail of the plan: President Bashar al-Assad would be replaced in a transition by a loyal disciple. Youssef Badawi/European Pressphoto Agency Farouk al-Shara is known for his calm demeanor. 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But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the standard-bearer of President Nicolas Sarkozy ‘s party in the first round of voting and then won 30.2 percent of the vote in the runoff, [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/memo-from-jerusalem-in-israel-talk-of-attacking-iran-transcends-idle-chatter-1328502730/ http://www.jewpi.com/memo-from-jerusalem-in-israel-talk-of-attacking-iran-transcends-idle-chatter-1328502730/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:32:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/memo-from-jerusalem-in-israel-talk-of-attacking-iran-transcends-idle-chatter-1328502730/ JERUSALEM — Israelis like to say that when it comes to military and security operations, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know. But the intense and increasingly public debate about whether to attack Iran ‘s nuclear facilities is challenging that piece of conventional wisdom. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/palestinians-consider-abbas-to-lead-interim-body-1328502019/ http://www.jewpi.com/palestinians-consider-abbas-to-lead-interim-body-1328502019/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:20:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/palestinians-consider-abbas-to-lead-interim-body-1328502019/ GAZA — Initial Palestinian reports late Sunday indicated that the leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas might have found a way to break a long political deadlock by forming an interim unity government that would be led, at least at first, by Mahmoud Abbas , the president of the Palestinian Authority based [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/news-analysis-white-house-continues-push-for-change-in-syria-1328496363/ http://www.jewpi.com/news-analysis-white-house-continues-push-for-change-in-syria-1328496363/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/news-analysis-white-house-continues-push-for-change-in-syria-1328496363/ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, dismayed by the escalating violence in Syria and the blocking of tougher action against the Syrian government by Russia and China over the weekend, vowed Sunday to “redouble efforts” to push President Bashar al-Assad out of power. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-columnist-mitts-muffled-soul-1328488822/ http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-columnist-mitts-muffled-soul-1328488822/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:40:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-columnist-mitts-muffled-soul-1328488822/ LAST week he did it again, wading into a discussion of money — or, rather, of the “very poor” who lack it — and succumbing to yet another pink slip of the tongue. Mitt Romney is forever being tripped up this election cycle by the topic of wealth. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-collegiate-chorale-sings-tippett-and-bruckner-at-carnegie-1328487606/ http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-collegiate-chorale-sings-tippett-and-bruckner-at-carnegie-1328487606/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:20:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-collegiate-chorale-sings-tippett-and-bruckner-at-carnegie-1328487606/ To be a gay atheist remains almost as marginalizing in many societies today as it was for Michael Tippett (1905-98), the British composer and pacifist who began composing “A Child of Our Time” the day Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/cancer-center-in-lawsuit-says-a-doctor-appropriated-a-discovery-1328476213/ http://www.jewpi.com/cancer-center-in-lawsuit-says-a-doctor-appropriated-a-discovery-1328476213/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/cancer-center-in-lawsuit-says-a-doctor-appropriated-a-discovery-1328476213/ The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania , over accusations that he walked away with groundbreaking research and used it to help start a valuable biotechnology company. Dr. Craig B. 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Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-a-golden-retriever-reaches-a-raging-boy-1328443689/ http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-a-golden-retriever-reaches-a-raging-boy-1328443689/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:08:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-a-golden-retriever-reaches-a-raging-boy-1328443689/ In May 1999, Donnie Kanter Winokur, 43, a writer and multimedia producer, and her husband, Rabbi Harvey Winokur, 49, beheld the son of their dreams, the child infertility denied them. Andrey, a pale dark-eyed 1-year-old in a cotton onesie, held in a standing position by a caregiver, appeared in a short videotape recorded in a [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/panetta-and-clinton-reassure-europe-on-defense-1328425327/ http://www.jewpi.com/panetta-and-clinton-reassure-europe-on-defense-1328425327/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:02:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/panetta-and-clinton-reassure-europe-on-defense-1328425327/ MUNICH — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure Europe on Saturday that, despite budget cuts in Washington and the coming withdrawal from the Continent of about 6,000 to 7,000 American troops, the United States was not abandoning its partners across the Atlantic. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-pipeline-supplying-israel-is-attacked-1328406725/ http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-pipeline-supplying-israel-is-attacked-1328406725/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:52:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-pipeline-supplying-israel-is-attacked-1328406725/ Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline in Egypt that supplied gas to Israel , the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/beliefs-when-counseling-and-conviction-collide-%e2%80%94-beliefs-1328337724/ http://www.jewpi.com/beliefs-when-counseling-and-conviction-collide-%e2%80%94-beliefs-1328337724/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:42:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/beliefs-when-counseling-and-conviction-collide-%e2%80%94-beliefs-1328337724/ In 2009, Julea Ward, a teacher and an evangelical Christian, was studying for a master’s degree in counseling at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. As part of her training, she was required to treat clients, and she expressed her reluctance to work with any who were in same-sex relationships. A professor, heeding Ms. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/under-syria-plan-assad-loyalist-would-likely-lead-transition-1328327404/ http://www.jewpi.com/under-syria-plan-assad-loyalist-would-likely-lead-transition-1328327404/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:50:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/under-syria-plan-assad-loyalist-would-likely-lead-transition-1328327404/ The diplomatic struggle over the Arab League ‘s peace proposal for Syria has nearly obscured an important detail of the plan: President Bashar al-Assad would be replaced in a transition by a loyal disciple. Youssef Badawi/European Pressphoto Agency Farouk al-Shara is known for his calm demeanor. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/editorial-trading-threats-with-iran-1328323085/ http://www.jewpi.com/editorial-trading-threats-with-iran-1328323085/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:38:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/editorial-trading-threats-with-iran-1328323085/ The posturing and saber rattling from both Iran and Israel are getting frightening. Related U.S. Plays Down Warning by Israeli Over Iran’s Missiles (February 3, 2012) Diplomatic Memo: As Syria Wobbles Under Pressure, Iran Feels the Weight of an Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-can-egypt-avoid-pakistans-fate-1328321530/ http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-can-egypt-avoid-pakistans-fate-1328321530/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:12:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-can-egypt-avoid-pakistans-fate-1328321530/ Washington Related News Police Kill 4 Protesters as Egyptians Unleash Fury Over Soccer Riot Deaths (February 4, 2012) Times Topic: Egypt News — Revolution and Aftermath Related in Opinion Room for Debate: How Allies Can Help Egypt Get Back on Its Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-in-the-sewers-with-in-darkness-1328304485/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-in-the-sewers-with-in-darkness-1328304485/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-in-the-sewers-with-in-darkness-1328304485/ Jasmin Marla Dichant/Sony Pictures Classics A scene from Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness,” set in the sewers of Lvov. The Polish director Agnieszka Holland doesn’t consider herself a specialist in Holocaust themes, but all three of her Oscar nominations are for films about that subject. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/update-homeless-science-whiz-goes-to-washington-1328292155/ http://www.jewpi.com/update-homeless-science-whiz-goes-to-washington-1328292155/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:02:35 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/update-homeless-science-whiz-goes-to-washington-1328292155/ Samantha Garvey, the Long Island teenager who made headlines because her family was living in a homeless shelter when she was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Search, was still homeless last Tuesday, when she went to Washington. Invited by her congressman, Steve Israel , she met with John P. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-the-rabbi-at-the-movies-1328282534/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-the-rabbi-at-the-movies-1328282534/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:22:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-carpetbagger-the-rabbi-at-the-movies-1328282534/ Of the Academy’s nearly 6,000 members, most work primarily in film, but not all of them. One gives her title as Reverend Mother. Another is listed as Pastor. And then there’s Marvin Hier, a member better known as the rabbi who founded the Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/irans-supreme-leader-threatens-retaliation-against-attack-1328280732/ http://www.jewpi.com/irans-supreme-leader-threatens-retaliation-against-attack-1328280732/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:52:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/irans-supreme-leader-threatens-retaliation-against-attack-1328280732/ The supreme leader of Iran vowed on Friday to retaliate over oil sanctions and threats of military by the West to stop Iran’s nuclear program , warning that the United States in particular would face severe damage to its interests if any strike were carried out against its nuclear sites. Related U.S. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hungarys-malev-airline-halts-flights-1328272232/ http://www.jewpi.com/hungarys-malev-airline-halts-flights-1328272232/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:32 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hungarys-malev-airline-halts-flights-1328272232/ PARIS — The Hungarian national airline Malev on Friday halted all flights Friday after creditors began seizing its planes outside the country over unpaid debts — becoming the second carrier in a week to succumb to Europe’s economic woes. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-1328270532/ http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-1328270532/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:02:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/wonder-dog-1328270532/ In May 1999, Donnie Kanter Winokur, 43, a writer and multimedia producer, and her husband, Rabbi Harvey Winokur, 49, beheld the son of their dreams, the child infertility denied them. Andrey, a pale dark-eyed 1-year-old in a cotton onesie, held in a standing position by a caregiver, appeared in a short videotape recorded in a [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/2-demonstrators-killed-in-egypt-during-protests-over-soccer-riot-deaths-1328258653/ http://www.jewpi.com/2-demonstrators-killed-in-egypt-during-protests-over-soccer-riot-deaths-1328258653/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:44:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/2-demonstrators-killed-in-egypt-during-protests-over-soccer-riot-deaths-1328258653/ CAIRO — The police in several Egyptian cities on Thursday night battled with thousands of die-hard soccer fans angry at the military-led government’s failure to prevent dozens of deaths at a soccer riot in Port Said the previous night. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-envisioning-a-deal-with-iran-1328253518/ http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-envisioning-a-deal-with-iran-1328253518/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:18:39 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/op-ed-contributors-envisioning-a-deal-with-iran-1328253518/ “IF you deal in camels, make the doors high,” an Afghan proverb cautions. As the dangers mount in the confrontation between the United States and Iran , both sides will have to raise the doors high for diplomacy to work, and to avoid conflict. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/india-ink-myth-and-fiction-at-the-jaipur-literature-festival-1328251331/ http://www.jewpi.com/india-ink-myth-and-fiction-at-the-jaipur-literature-festival-1328251331/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:42:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/india-ink-myth-and-fiction-at-the-jaipur-literature-festival-1328251331/ Altaf Hussain/Reuters Author William Dalrymple at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Jan. 24, 2012. In the years that followed the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses,” a tragic game of Chinese whispers took place among those Indian Muslims who decided to take against the novel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tough-iran-penalty-clears-senate-banking-panel-1328239337/ http://www.jewpi.com/tough-iran-penalty-clears-senate-banking-panel-1328239337/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:22:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tough-iran-penalty-clears-senate-banking-panel-1328239337/ The Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved a new regimen of anti-Iran sanctions on Thursday that would for the first time threaten to punish the global financial telecommunications network that nearly all banks rely on to conduct their daily business. Related U.N. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-menachem-youlus-says-he-lied-about-saving-torahs-1328237644/ http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-menachem-youlus-says-he-lied-about-saving-torahs-1328237644/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:54:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-menachem-youlus-says-he-lied-about-saving-torahs-1328237644/ For years Rabbi Menachem Youlus, a self-described “Jewish Indiana Jones,” received plaudits from those captivated by his stories of traveling to Eastern Europe and beyond to search for historic Torahs that were lost or hidden during the Holocaust. Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Rabbi Menachem Youlus at his bookstore in 2008. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-keren-ann-in-american-songbook-program-at-the-allen-room-1328228170/ http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-keren-ann-in-american-songbook-program-at-the-allen-room-1328228170/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:16:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/music-review-keren-ann-in-american-songbook-program-at-the-allen-room-1328228170/ Call it what you will — art pop, classical folk, dream music — but a label to define the style of Keren Ann , née Keren Ann Zeidel , is as elusive as her nationality. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-marvin-hier-talks-best-picture-nominees-1328227451/ http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-marvin-hier-talks-best-picture-nominees-1328227451/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:04:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-marvin-hier-talks-best-picture-nominees-1328227451/ LOS ANGELES Cast Your Votes Who will take home an Oscar this year? Start your ballot below with the Best Picture category. Nominees… The Artist The Descendants Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris Moneyball The Tree of Life War Horse Peter Iovino/Weinstein Company Jean Dujardin in “The Artist. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-3-9-1328224824/ http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-3-9-1328224824/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:20:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/spare-times-for-feb-3-9-1328224824/ Around Town Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Go to Arts Beat » A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/green-blog-evidence-for-jellyfish-invasion-is-lacking-study-says-1328224206/ http://www.jewpi.com/green-blog-evidence-for-jellyfish-invasion-is-lacking-study-says-1328224206/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:10:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/green-blog-evidence-for-jellyfish-invasion-is-lacking-study-says-1328224206/ Kip Evans, NOAA The lion’s mane, the largest jellyfish on earth. A dead one stung over 100 people on a state park beach in New Hampshire in 2010. In 2009, a Japanese fishing boat capsized when its crew tried to haul in a net full of the gigantic Nomura jellyfish. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/world-egyptians-mourn-1328221847/ http://www.jewpi.com/world-egyptians-mourn-1328221847/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:47 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/world-egyptians-mourn-1328221847/ Home PageToday’s PaperVideoMost PopularTimes Topics Slide Shows »Podcasts » Search Video Video Latest VideoTimesCastBest of 2011Editors’ ChoiceBreaking NewsWorldAfricaAmericasAsia PacificEuropeMiddle EastAt WarHaitiU.S.American AlbumPoliticsElection NightBarack ObamaNBC NewsThe Ad CampaignN.Y. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/effort-to-rebrand-arab-spring-backfires-in-iran-1328212006/ http://www.jewpi.com/effort-to-rebrand-arab-spring-backfires-in-iran-1328212006/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:46:46 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/effort-to-rebrand-arab-spring-backfires-in-iran-1328212006/ TEHRAN, Iran — It was meant to be a crowning moment in which Iran put its own Islamic stamp on the Arab Spring. More than a thousand young activists were flown here earlier this week (at government expense) for a conference on “the Islamic Awakening,” Tehran’s effort to re-brand the popular Arab uprisings of the [...]]]> 0