Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Opinion The Jewishness of Joseph Lieberman
Joseph Lieberman may have held on to his Senate seat, but it’s safe to say that there were plenty of Jews who weren’t celebrating with him on election night. Indeed, Lieberman — one of the greatest political path-breakers in American Jewish history — has long been a controversial figure among his fellow Jews. This has…
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News In Nasty Brooklyn Fight, Candidates Vie To Be Russian Trailblazer
Since the fall of communism, immigrants from the former Soviet Union have transformed the ethnic landscape of southern Brooklyn. Radiating out from Brighton Beach, known as “Little Odessa,” Russian-speaking immigrants — most of them Jewish — are a major presence in many areas of the borough. But one area in which the immigrants have yet…
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News Liberal Churches Slam Israel
As Israel presses for more time to pursue its military campaigns against Hezbollah and Hamas, liberal American churches are pushing hard for a cease-fire and are criticizing Israeli actions in Lebanon and in Gaza. Late last week, officials representing some dozen mainline Protestant and other, mostly liberal denominations sent a pair of letters to President…
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Israel News From Rocker to Immigration Posterboy
With the immigration debate roiling the nation, Carnegie Corporation of New York weighed in this independence week with a full-page advertisement in The New York Times, titled “Immigrants: The Pride of America.” Praising immigrants “who have made, and continue to make, our nation strong and vibrant,” the July 3 ad featured photos of 39 famous…
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News Moderate Muslims Seek Foothold in U.S.
What happens when you call a mass demonstration and only a few dozen people show up? That’s more or less what happened when Free Muslims Against Terrorism organized a Washington rally last month. The group’s founder, Bethlehem-born Kamal Nawash, had hoped that the May 14 rally would send “a very clear message to the Arab…
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Culture Missing Rap Song Sparks Suspicious Musings
A fiery song by a popular rapper lashes out at “quasi-homosexuals” who run the hip-hop industry — drawing jeers from reviewers. The song also appears to take a shot at a prominent music executive, citing his Israeli background — and evoking for some the tensions that occasionally have surfaced over the prominence of Jewish executives…
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Israel News Preparing To Protest As the Republicans Come to Town
Leslie Cagan learned to challenge authority when she was just 5 or 6 years old, as she and her mother joined other fed-up residents of their South Bronx, N.Y., neighborhood in blocking traffic at a dangerous intersection to demand a stoplight. More than five decades later, Cagan, 57, is still challenging authority. This week, the…
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News IN OTHER WORDS…
Neoconspiracy Theories: The notion that neoconservatives are “Jews who serve the interests of Israel” has been embraced “with varying degrees of delicacy” by political actors ranging from Patrick Buchanan to European news outlets, writes Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. It is, Boot…
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