Eric Fingerhut (JTA)
By Eric Fingerhut (JTA)
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Breaking News Health Care Bill Could Mean Election Battles for Some Jewish Dems
A window was shattered by a pellet gun in an apparent vandalism attack at her Tucson district office. Sarah Palin has put her on the list of Democratic lawmakers she is targeting this fall. Arizona Tea Party activists are pledging to help defeat her bid for re-election. All this because Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) voted…
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Breaking News Spielberg To Produce Reality Show at Jerusalem Hospital
Steven Spielberg and the producer of “Everybody Loves Raymond” are producing a reality television series set at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital. The Jerusalem Post reported that “Raymond” producer Phil Rosenthal was in Israel this week to check out Shaare Zedek and hold discussions with the Israeli producers of the show, which is scheduled to air…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Fight Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Bill
Several Jewish groups are fighting a controversial measure in health reform legislation that would have the effect of eliminating insurance coverage for abortion for millions of women. At issue is the Stupak Amendment, a measure included at the last minute in the health care bill passed Nov. 7 by the U.S. House of Representatives. Several…
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Breaking News Palin Among GOP Prospects Criticizing Obama on Israel
As Sarah Palin embarked on a tour for her just published book “Going Rogue,” she became the latest prospective Republican presidential candidate to criticize the Obama administration’s policy on Israel. In an interview with ABC News last week, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate told Barbara Walters that Jewish settlements “should be allowed…
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Breaking News Obama: New Sanctions on Iran Are Forthcoming
President Obama said that within the next few weeks, the United States and other world powers would be formulating new sanctions on Iran. “They have been unable to get to ‘yes,’ and so as a consequence, we have begun discussions with our international partners about the importance of having consequences,” Obama said Thursday at a…
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Breaking News Obama’s Approval Rating Is 64 Percent, Among American Jews
Sixty-four percent of American Jews approve of President Obama’s job performance, the highest of any religious group surveyed in a new Gallup poll. The Jewish job approval number was also signficantly higher than the national average of 52 percent approval for Obama. The 64 percent is down from 83 percent job approval among Jews in…
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Breaking News Poll Shows Majority of U.S. Jews Back Iran Strike
A new survey shows that a majority of American Jews would support a U.S. military strike on Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons – a significant increase from a year ago. Fifty-six percent of American Jews would support the “United States taking military action against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons,”…
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Breaking News Kennedy Remembered for Role in Soviet Jewry Movement
No American politician had ever personally met with refuseniks in the former Soviet Union – until U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. “It was late at night, they had all gathered, he gave the driver the address and the KGB didn’t have time to stop it,” said legendary Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, recounting the 1974 meeting. “He…
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