Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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Israel News Rather Drops Anchor at the AJC
Apparently, Dan Rather has some free time on his hands. Not only could the erstwhile anchor, who left his post at CBS in June, be seen on Comedy Central last Tuesday, co-hosting election night coverage with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but just a few days prior he could be found lending his imprimatur to…
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News Opponents of Pro-Israel Lobby Releasing DVD
Seeking to capitalize on the publicity swirling around a high-profile report attacking the role of the “Israel Lobby” in shaping American foreign policy, an advocacy group that opposes America’s close relationship with the Jewish state is hocking a DVD on Amazon.com of two recent public debates involving one of the paper’s authors. The Council for…
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News Flap in Illinois Over GOP Threat
A vulnerable Republican incumbent battling for re-election in suburban Chicago is facing criticism this week — including a call for a federal investigation — over an e-mail message in which an aide seemingly threatened to punish Tel Aviv University because one of its top American donors was backing the Democratic challenger. The incumbent, Rep. Mark…
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Culture Left Out?
Over a seven-month period in the fall of 2004, filmmakers and activists Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer crisscrossed America, crashed on people’s couches and interviewed more than 60 of their fellow Jewish social activists working outside of the mainstream. The resulting documentary, “Young, Jewish and Left,” explores the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, Zionism and…
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News Minister to Israeli Expats: You Can Come Home Again
On a recent Sunday afternoon on New York City’s Upper East Side, several hundred Big Apple residents gathered to hear from the Israeli government why they should consider immigrating to the Jewish homeland. But the targets of the pitch for life in Israel were not the usual crop of American Jews with Zionist leanings. They…
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News Immigration Cuts Likely To Be Reversed
The Israeli minister in charge of immigration is predicting that the recent proposal to drastically cut the number of Ethiopian Jews allowed into Israel will be reversed when it comes before parliament. “I told the prime minister that before we pass this, we will put it before the parliament to be reconsidered,” Israel’s Minister of…
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News Charity Hits Back in Feud Over Arab Aid
The head of the largest Jewish charitable federation in the country is taking right-wing groups to task for arguing that philanthropic dollars raised for Israel during the recent war with Hezbollah should not have been used to aid Arab citizens of the Jewish state. Controversy surrounding the issue erupted in recent weeks when the hawkish…
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News Rightists Set To Honor Pullout Booster
A hawkish Jewish organization that helped lead the charge against the Israeli pullout from Gaza is bestowing its top honor on one of the most vocal proponents of disengagement from the once-disputed territory. The Zionist Organization of America, which has harshly criticized the American-backed peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is giving its…
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