Ron Kampeas (JTA)
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Angling for Fixes to Health Care Bill
Repair the world? Jewish groups would be happy just to fix health care legislation. For months, Jewish groups have been at the forefront of lobbying the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for health care reform, framing their support within the Talmudic mandate of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. The National Jewish Democratic Council even…
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Fast Forward Carter Says Apology Not Tied to Grandson’s Senate Bid
Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness ? and insists it?s not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career with a run for the Georgia state Senate. Jason Carter, 34, an Atlanta-area lawyer, is considering a run to fill a seat covering suburban DeKalb County should the incumbent, David…
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Fast Forward Carter Offers Jewish Community ‘Al Het’ Forgiveness Prayer
Jimmy Carter asked the Jewish community for forgiveness for any stigma he may have caused Israel. In a letter released exclusively to JTA, the former U.S. president sent a seasonal message wishing for peace between Israel and its neighbors, and concluded: “We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a…
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Fast Forward Obama’s Outreach to Muslim World Cited in Nobel Win
The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee cited President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world and his push for Israeli-Arab peace in explaining its decision to award him the prize. “One of the first things he did was to go to Cairo to try to reach out to the Muslim world, then to restart…
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Fast Forward Columnist William Safire, Former Nixon Speechwriter, Dies at 79
William Safire, the conservative speechwriter turned columnist who made an art of at once embracing and poking the Washington establishment, died at 79. Safire died in a hospice in Maryland on Sunday, just before Yom Kippur, his former employer, the New York Times, reported. He had pancreatic cancer. Safire was an adman visiting Moscow in…
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Fast Forward New Revelations Bring Iran’s Nuclear Threat to Forefront
With Iran, it always comes back to the nuclear issue. The revelation Friday that Iran has a second, secret uranium-enrichment plant — with a “configuration” inconsistent with peaceful intent, according to President Obama — placed the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program front and center, knocking out headlines about the G-20 summit of industrial nations in Pittsburgh….
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Fast Forward Obama to Bibi, Abbas: Success Depends on Acting With Urgency
The meetings ran overtime, and Mahmoud Abbas wouldn’t stop arguing even after he stepped into a room full of cameras. Reporters could not make out exactly what was exercising the Palestinian Authority president in his exchange with President Obama, but fist pounding isn’t usually a sign of things going well. Abbas confronted Obama as the…
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Fast Forward In Jewish Critiques of U.N. Report, Goldstone Nowhere To Be Found
Looking for Justice Goldstone? You’re not likely to find him in critiques of his report. The retired South Africa judge who headed the U.N.-mandated fact-finding inquiry into last winter’s Gaza war tends to get lost in the flurry of reactions from Israel and Jewish groups excoriating his report for accusing Israel of war crimes and…
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