Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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Israel News Power Duo To Headline Church-State Fundraiser
An activist leading the charge against the influence of evangelical Christians in America’s military is sizzling up his latest fundraising gala with some heavy-hitting Washington star power. Mikey Weinstein, an Air Force veteran turned church-state gadfly, has signed up Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame to headline a soiree he is set to throw September 9…
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News Gay Barbecuers Say Missouri Mayor Wants To Run Them Out of Town
In the halcyon years of Rockaway Beach, Mo., thousands of Midwesterners descended on the Ozark resort town each summer to amble along the boardwalk, ride the Ferris wheel and swim off the sandy beach that hugged the shores of the White River. But like so many American communities once prized for their small-town charm, Rockaway…
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News Publishing CEO Must Fill Founder’s Shoes
When Google’s founders — two computer scientists with scant business experience between them — brought in a computer industry veteran to serve as CEO just three years after the upstart Internet search engine was launched, the move was seen as the result of pressure from outside venture capitalists. The original visionaries, while still involved in…
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News Showdown Set in ‘Genocide’ Debate
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is threatening a confirmation fight in an effort to press the Bush administration to reverse America’s longstanding policy of avoiding the use of the word “genocide” to describe the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote…
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News Antisemites Hit in Tacoma After Messianic Raises Flag
On July 12, the day that two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah, setting into motion Israel’s war in Lebanon, Rebecca Yale lowered the commemorative 9/11 flag she had flown alongside her Stars and Stripes and replaced it with the flag of the State of Israel. It was only a matter of weeks…
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News Conservative Rabbis Predict Gay Ban Will Fall, Canadian Shuls Weigh Split With Movement
With leaders of Conservative Judaism predicting an end to the outright ban on gay ordination and same-sex marriage, some of the movement’s more traditional Canadian synagogues are threatening to form a breakaway coalition. Several movement leaders, speaking at an August 24 meeting in New York, said that the ordination of gay rabbis and the sanctioning…
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News Is Intermarriage the Answer?
At one point in the 1970s, genetic counselors adopted a radical stance on the issue of intermarriage: They routinely advised Jews who carried the genetic mutation that leads to a rare neurological genetic disease found in the Ashkenazic population to marry non-Jews. Their logic was that if a carrier bore offspring with a non-Jew, the…
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Israel News Rabbis: Israel Too Worried Over Civilian Deaths
As international human rights organizations decry the high toll of civilian deaths suffered in the Lebanon war, America’s main organization of Modern Orthodox rabbis is calling on the Israeli military to be less concerned with avoiding civilian casualties on the opposing side when carrying out future operations. Following a solidarity mission to Israel last week,…
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