Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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Israel News Amid Election Strains and Jewish Divisions, Two Antagonists Debate Israel, Civilly
Before things got underway, Rabbi David Wolpe laid down the law. “I have to both ask and warn you not to be antagonistic,” he told the assembled crowd on Wednesday, November 2. “If you’re really difficult, we’ll remove you.” His stern words were not what one might expect in such a genteel setting — an…
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Opinion Henry Waxman, ‘Lobbyist’s Nightmare,’ Is Now a Lobbyist
When Henry Waxman announced in January of 2014 that he would retire from Congress after 40 years of service, he was rightly hailed as one of the most influential liberals, and one of the most skilled legislators, of his generation. Waxman’s list of accomplishments is astonishing – expanding Medicaid, strengthening of the Clean Air Act,…
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Culture Los Angeles Synagogue Houses Mosque and Church Too
(JTA) — On the first floor of the Pico Union Project, members of the Women’s Mosque of America are preparing the historic sanctuary for prayers, spreading long bolts of cloth on the floor, hanging a banner from the organ loft and placing an open copy of the Koran in the just-vacated Holy Ark. Outside, news…
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Life Meet Ruth Porat, Google’s New CFO
Ruth Porat. Photogprah by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (JTA) — To the business press, the symbolism of Ruth Porat’s move from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to her newly announced perch as Google’s CFO of the future couldn’t be more obvious — it represents a shift in power from Wall Street to…
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Breaking News Meet Ruth Porat, Google’s New Jewish CFO
(JTA) – To the business press, the symbolism of Ruth Porat’s move from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to her newly announced perch as Google’s CFO of the future couldn’t be more obvious — it represents a shift in power from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. And there’s no question that…
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Breaking News Hillel’s Eric Fingerhut Under Fire for Shunning J Street — From Inside the Organization
(JTA) — Hillel President Eric Fingerhut’s decision to withdraw from the upcoming J Street conference has again drawn Hillel into conflict over the boundaries of acceptable criticism of Israel. Some two years after the Open Hillel movement emerged to challenge Hillel International’s guidelines for Israel activities, which prohibit campus chapters from hosting speakers that support…
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Culture ‘Dig’ Is Too Shallow by Far
(JTA) — Last summer, in the midst of the Gaza conflict, the threat of rocket fire forced NBC Universal’s “Dig” to stop production in Jerusalem and move out of the country. If only the show itself were half that dramatic. Instead, “Dig,” which premiered Thursday on the USA Network, is a rather flat amalgam of…
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Food Oregon Couple to Brew Kosher Kegs
Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam are opening a community-supported kosher brewery in their Portland backyard. Photograph by Anthony Weiss. (JTA) — For Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam, the dream is nearly complete. Behind the couple’s tidy Victorian house on a tree-lined street in southeast Portland, Oregon, is a pitched-roof building that vaguely resembles a garage…
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