Ami Eden
By Ami Eden
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News Leader of Reform Steps Out Against Bush and Sharon
MINNEAPOLIS — After two years of relative silence, the leader of America’s largest synagogue movement has returned to the policy stage with a full-bore attack on the policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon government. In a major policy address here last week, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the newly renamed Union for Reform…
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News Same Union, Different Name at Biennial
MINNEAPOLIS — In recent years, the leaders of Reform Judaism have instituted a slew of changes geared toward transforming worship in their synagogues and strengthening the religious observance of their followers. But, until last week, one thing had remained the same, the name of the movement’s congregational arm: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations. At…
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News Groups Rap Mahathir, ADL Rips Chirac
With Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad standing by his claims that Jews rule the world, Israeli leaders and Jewish groups say they are stepping up efforts to organize a “global rejection” of the Asian leader’s remarks. Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky issued a statement Wednesday announcing that the night before he…
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News Cubs, Red Sox Fans Long To Enter Promised Land
Call it a quirk in the calendar or a dose of divine inspiration, but each year as Jews turn the page on a spiritual year and complete the annual Torah reading cycle, one baseball team is finishing the final leg of its march to a World Series championship. It could be argued that in both…
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News Rabbi Presses the President On Rise in American Poverty
President Bush got an earful from one of the 16 rabbis he invited to the White House Monday. Made up mostly of Orthodox clergymen, the group focused on issues related to Israel and the war on terrorism, according to several participants. Two rabbis urged Bush to consider clemency for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. But, during…
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News Israeli Fighter Jets Over Auschwitz Cause Controversy
More than half a century after his grandmother was killed at Auschwitz, Israeli Brigadier General Amir Eshel helped spark an international controversy last week by flying over the adjacent Birkenau death camp in an F-15 fighter jet. Two other Israeli aircraft, also piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors, took part in the fly-over, timed to…
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News Debates on Gays Link Anglicans, Conservative Jews
Debates over homosexuality have produced national headlines throughout the summer, with much of the attention focused on the Episcopal Church and its groundbreaking decision to appoint an openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson. Yet an equally impassioned debate is raging within Conservative Jewish circles, as its top law-making body, the Committee on Jewish Law and…
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News IN OTHER WORDS…
In God He Trusts: Writing in the September issue of GQ, Guy Lawson takes a stab at retracing President Bush’s religious transformation from hard-drinking oil man to God-fearing president. Titled “George W.’s Personal Jesus” and accompanied by an illustration depicting Bush as the Christian messiah, the article is packed with worthwhile tidbits regarding Bush’s religious…
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