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News Florida Democrat Chosen To Testify at Alito Hearings
Highlighting their concerns with privacy issues, Democrats tapped a freshman congresswoman from Florida to testify Thursday at the Senate hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of two new Jewish members of the House of Representatives, was chosen by the ranking Democratic member of Senate…
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News Nonprofit Used in Lobbying Scheme
Disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff reportedly used a Jewish nonprofit organization as a conduit for money in a scheme to try to influence a top aide of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The organization, Toward Tradition, headed by South African-born Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin, received $50,000 from two Abramoff clients, which it used to hire…
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
What’s in a name? According to Jews for Jesus, plenty. Last week, the Messianic Jewish organization filed a lawsuit against Internet titan Google in U.S. District Court in New York City, citing trademark infringement. The subject of the complaint is jewsforjesus.blogspot.com, the blog of an anonymous individual self-identified as Whistle Blower. The lawsuit demands control…
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Israel News Pundits Follow Old Script on Spielberg Film
The debate over Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” continues to rage, often along predictable political lines. The Zionist Organization of America, which strongly opposed Israel’s Gaza pullout, issued a statement condemning the film — which tells the story of Israeli reprisals after the 1972 massacre of the country’s athletes at the Munich Olympics — and urging people…
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News Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel
In sharp contrast to the growing consensus of Jerusalem’s security and political establishment, President Bush argued this week that Israel’s safety depends on democratization of the Arab world. “If you’re a supporter of Israel, I would strongly urge you to help other countries become democracies,” President Bush declared Monday, in a major address defending American…
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News California Pol Passes on Pro-Rice Letter
Influential Democratic Rep. Howard Berman of California has refused to co-sponsor and sign a letter praising Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for brokering the recent Israeli-Palestinian agreement on the Rafah border crossing. “I was fine with everything about the letter except the last paragraph,” Berman, a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, told…
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News Newsdesk November 25, 2005
Russia: Rabbi Can’t Return Moscow’s chief rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt, will never be allowed to return to Russia, the country’s Internal Affairs Ministry said. The news came in a letter from the ministry publicized Tuesday. The letter cited an article in Russian legislation that prevents foreigners who are deemed threats to Russian national security from entering…
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News Bernard ‘Red’ Sarachek, Y.U. Coach
Bernard “Red” Sarachek, former Yeshiva University basketball coach, died November 14 after a long illness. He was 93. Sarachek coached the Y.U. team from 1942 to ’43 and from 1945 to ’69. He is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame and the New York City Hall of Fame. He worked…
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