Ami Eden
By Ami Eden
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Culture One Nation Under God?
As Senator Dianne Feinstein wrapped up her opening remarks during the hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, she offered an apparent plea for preserving a robust separation of church and state. “During the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and even today,” the California Democrat said, “millions of innocent people have…
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Opinion Is Roberts a Lemon?
The battle over Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is coming to a head, and though the deck is stacked against them, his liberal critics seem ready for a nasty fight to the finish. As Ori Nir reports on Page 1, one liberal advocacy group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, issued a 19-page…
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News Gaza Journal; Crowds Confront Soldiers
With the sun setting on Gaza Tuesday night, historian Michael Oren stood in the Gush Katif settlement bloc as Israeli soldiers received orders for the next day’s forced removal of Jewish settlers. A senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based center-right Shalem Center think tank, Oren wrote a highly praised book on Israel’s capture of Gaza and…
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News Israel Denies Orthodox Allegations of Profiling
Israel is denying claims that it has adopted a policy of ethnic profiling aimed at Orthodox Jews. In a July 28 letter to leaders of the New York-based Orthodox Union, the deputy chief of mission of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Rafael Barak, said that he “can say with full confidence that the State of…
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Israel News Coach Picked, Stereotypes Roll
It was all hugs and smiles last week at the press conference where New York Knicks General Manager Isiah Thomas introduced the team’s new $10 million per year head coach, Larry Brown. Generally the media joined in the fun, hailing the return of Brown, a Brooklyn native who grew up on Long Island idolizing the…
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Israel News Coach Picked, Stereotypes Roll
It was all hugs and smiles last week at the press conference where New York Knicks General Manager Isiah Thomas introduced the team’s new $10 million per year head coach, Larry Brown. Generally the media joined in the fun, hailing the return of Brown, a Brooklyn native who grew up on Long Island idolizing the…
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Israel News Spielberg Shooting Mossad Film, Media Smells Blood
Audiences have been flocking to Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds” since last month, but some media eyes are already trained on his next film — and the possibility that it could anger Jewish and Israeli audiences. The still untitled film will tell the story of a squad of Mossad hit men ordered to hunt…
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News Critics Charge JTS Board With Power Play in Search
Board members of the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism have executed what critics are describing as a power play aimed at limiting the say of the faculty and other arms of the movement in selecting a new leader. Movement insiders say the maneuvering could tilt the selection in a more traditionalist direction. Last month, the…
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