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Vacations with a payoff
Picking a volunteer vacation is a lot like dating: The choices are mind-boggling, but finding the right fit takes work. Treat the search like a job. Opportunities to travel and immerse yourself in a different culture are everywhere. You can enlist...
Tags: Lima (Peru), Geography, Delray Beach, Hotels and Accommodations, Judaism
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The Reading Life: Harvey Pekar's Jewish question
Jacket CopyOn the second anniversary of comic book author Harvey Pekar's death, book critic David L. Ulin looks at the posthumously published "Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me."... -
Is China trying to co-opt the Holocaust?
During his visit to China this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was "one of the few places that opened its gates" to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby,...Tags: Politics, Taiwan, Immigration, Religion and Belief, Lobbying
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Documentaries lead Jewish Film Festival
South Bend TribuneFive of the eight movies that will be screened at the 2013 Michiana Jewish Film Festival are documentaries. The festival runs Monday through Thursday at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Two films are screened each...Tags: Festive Events, Polio, Music Industry, Caves and Caverns, Judaism
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What is Jewish Humor? Justin Timberlake 'Smells a Trap' for Coen Brothers in Cannes
ReutersMay 19 (TheWrap.com) - Justin Timberlake stepped in to save an awkward situation when directors Joel and Ethan Coen were asked at the Cannes Film Festival about Jewish humor by a German reporter on Sunday. "I smell a trap," quipped Timberlake at a news...Tags: Ethan Coen, World War II (1939-1945), Judaism, Justin Timberlake, Religion and Belief
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Cannes: With 'The Congress,' Ari Folman votes for new audacity
CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world’s attention with his combat piece “Waltz...Tags: Politics, Tom Cruise, Movies, Fiction, Golden Globe Awards
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Students recognized for Holocaust art
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- When Washington High School student Jessica Urban told her mother about an art class assignment focused on Holocaust remembrance art, her mother remembered a high school teacher who countered Holocaust deniers by showing the tattoo on her...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Education, Ceremonies, Schools, Students
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Maurice Sendak lit up dark corners of childhood
![Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush," and Maurice Sendak understood that.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-05/69849166-09114446.jpg "Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush,\" and Maurice Sendak understood that.")
Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush," and Maurice Sendak understood that.
Our children understand that, too. Instinctively. That's what makes his books, like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night...Tags: Beatrix Potter, NPR, AIDS, Radio, Fiction
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Lawmakers handed out $9.6 billion in county-level spending -- a $2 billion spike from last year
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Florida's legislative budget-writers went bombastic this week when a business-backed group suggested that with the help of surplus taxpayer cash they had spread more pork throughout the $74.5 billion state budget. But county-level...Tags: Broward College, Colleges and Universities, Education, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Fort Lauderdale
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Annual 'budget turkey' list draws flak
TALLAHASSEE – Florida TaxWatch, the business-backed group that calls itself a fiscal watchdog, has targeted $106.8 million worth of budget projects that it says Gov. Rick Scott should veto. Road projects, public safety initiatives and money for...
Tags: Broward County, Politics, Education, Executive Branch, Financial Aid
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Greek parliament evicts far-right lawmaker for volley of insults
ReutersATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker for insulting rivals in a tumultuous debate on Friday that prompted jeers of "Heil Hitler" from a leftist deputy and bolstered calls to crack down on the nationalist Golden Dawn party....Tags: Politics, Parliament, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Migration
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Don Gaetz goes postal on Florida TaxWatch
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Senate President Don Gaetz is hardly a politician accused of mincing words. But his latest retort to the business lobby-backed Florida TaxWatch "turkey" list is a bombastic display that distinguishes itself in the annals of Gaetz lore....Tags: Politics, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Lobbying, Budgets and Budgeting
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