Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Growing Number of Professionals Turning to a More Holy Pursuit
After spending seven years as an undergraduate and law student at Columbia University, Josh Ratner is certainly no stranger to the Manhattan neighborhood of Morningside Heights. But when the 31-year-old former lawyer reported for his first day of school last week — at the Jewish Theological Seminary, just steps away from his alma mater —…
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News Poll: Americans Like Their Politicians Religious, But Not Too Religious
Americans may require their president to be religious, but not necessarily very religious, according to a new study released last week. The survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, found that voters overwhelmingly link perceived religiousness with a positive assessment of candidates, but that the two presidential frontrunners — Democrat Hillary…
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News No Division of Jerusalem, Hillary Says
In a position paper released to JTA today, Hillary Clinton affirms her belief in Israel’s right to exist with an undivided Jersalem as its capital.
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News Survey Says: Rabbis For Hillary
A survey released by the STAR project (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal) finds that a plurality of rabbis, from all religious streams, name Hillary Clinton as the presidential candidate most supportive of Israel. Asked which candidate is most supportive of Israel, 41 percent said they were unsure. Clinton polled highest, at 22 percent, followed by former…
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News Jewish Dems Forced To Call Out One of Their Own
Jewish Democrats rushed to call out one of their own on Friday, after Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia – who has raised hackles with previous comments about the “Israel lobby” – went at it again in the latest issue of Tikkun. In the September/October 2007 issue of the magazine, Moran is quoted as having said…
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News Kinky Goes Straight to the Democratic Party
After finishing fourth in last year’s gubernatorial race in Texas, provocateur and vehement political independent Kinky Friedman has announced he’s mulling a rematch in 2010 – as a Democrat. “If God was running as an independent (in 2006), he couldn’t have beat Rick Perry,” Kinky recently told the Associated Press.
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News Get Your Obama-kah!
Campaign Confidential is easing back into desk life after 13 days in the wilds of Maine and looking ahead to High Holidays. To wit: Jewish supporters of Obama are pushing the “Obama-kah” to those who may want to wear their politics on their heads while listening to the sound of shofar.
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News Armenian Genocide Debate Exposes Rifts at ADL
It has been a long, hot, difficult summer for Abraham Foxman. Faced with the fight of his professional life, the indefatigable director of the Anti-Defamation League was forced into a rare and reluctant retreat by the unlikeliest of adversaries: an ethnic minority charging one of the world’s most famous Holocaust survivors with suppressing recognition of…
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