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April 7, 2006

If you go to a seder these days in the United States, you may hear the Four Questions read in Yiddish as a sop to the Old Country. At an annual model seder in lower Manhattan this week, everything was in Yiddish.The event sponsored by the Yiddish Artists and Friends ñ Actors Club was held, […]

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The grand rebbe of the Satmar chasidic sect, who presided over its huge expansion and its split into two factions, lay near death in Mount Sinai Hospital this week with his two contending sons at his bedside. Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, who assumed leadership of the world’s largest chasidic sect in 1980, was rushed to the […]

An entire high school sat shiva, symbolically, this week. The 250 high school students at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in Hartsdale observed a week of mourning for Lital Gamliel, 18, a senior living in Riverdale. Ms. Gamliel was killed Saturday night when the car driven by her boyfriend, who was drag racing in […]

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