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February 2001

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (JTA) – The following are the winners of the 51st annual National Jewish Book Awards. The awards will be presented by the Jewish Book Council in New York on March 29. FICTION “The Human Stain,” by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) NON-FICTION “Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 28 (JTA) – When you think of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, you don’t often think of Yiddishkeit. Nevertheless, there it was, among the nearly naked women and contagious samba rhythms in the parade for Carnival, a pre-Lenten Catholic festival. The first of the Carnival groups, which are known as samba […]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (JTA) – Would allowing a Christian youth club to meet in a public school be good news or bad news for the Jews? Jewish groups are split over a case heard Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court involving the Good News Club, a local youth group with national support from a Christian […]

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