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Presence of Brzezinski, Scowcroft at White House Meeting Draws Muted Comment
When President Obama dropped in on a meeting of his national security adviser in March, he found him deep in discussion with a number of advisers from past administrations on one of the most sensitive of topics on the ever-sensitive Middle East: whether the United States should at some point lay out its own plan…
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Israeli Ambassador Ends Informal Boycott of J Street
The informal boycott imposed by Israel’s ambassador to Washington on the dovish lobby J Street ended Thursday with a meeting between Ambassador Michael Oren and Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street’s founder and president. Prior to Thursday’s meeting, the Israeli embassy in Washington maintained only low-level contacts with the dovish lobby and ambassador Oren declined an invitation…
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Remembering A President
LAINIE KAZAN: “AN HONORARY ITALIAN” HONORED AT BOYS’ TOWNS OF ITALY GALA “Kutcher’s is the password,” I said to Lainie Kazan at the April 8 Boys’ Towns of Italy “Ball of the Year” Gala, at which she was honored as Celebrity of the Year. We briefly reminisced about Kutcher’s, now the only Catskills resort, where…
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The Forward Roundtable
Forward reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis sits down with colleagues Gal Beckerman, a staff writer, and Larry Cohler-Esses, the news editor, to discuss President Obama’s push for new U.N. sanctions against Iran. They weigh in on which trade-offs will be necessary to get Russia and China to support the sanctions, the coded language that Jewish leaders use…
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Tazria Metzora: Just Another Boring Day
Each day, when I pick up my son up from school, I ask him how his day was, and his answer is always the same: “Boring.” When I then ask him what he did, he tells me about activities he enjoyed, who he played with on the jungle gym, and the new things he learned….
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Jewish Groups Ask Feds To Change Policy and Include Antisemitism
Are Jews an ethnic or a religious group? This perennial question is now at the heart of a Jewish communal effort to get the U.S. Department of Education more deeply involved in probing allegations of antisemitism on college campuses. Thirteen national Jewish organizations have sent a letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan arguing that…
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Why Poland’s Jews Mourn Their President
Two years ago, Poland’s president brought its chief rabbi to the Katyn Forest, where in 1940, 20,000 Polish army officers were slaughtered at the order of Josef Stalin. There, the politician insisted on showing the cleric a memorial plaque erected for Rabbi Baruch Steinberg, the army’s World War II-era chief rabbi, who was murdered with…
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Facebook Now Home to New Kind of Holocaust Remembrance
Anne Frank’s Facebook page looks much like any other teenage girl’s: The profile picture shows Anne leaning against a wall; her hair is tucked behind her ears, and she stares off sideways, daydreaming perhaps, a slight smirking smile lifting up the corner of her mouth. The comments on her “wall” are typical, too. “We share…
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Jerusalem Quartet Draws Discordant Note in Britain
When well-organized hecklers disrupted a recent London performance by the Jerusalem Quartet, the protest resonated far beyond Wigmore Hall, the city’s famous and much loved lunchtime place of pilgrimage for music lovers seeking a break from the hubbub of central London. Not only did the disturbance cause the BBC to pull the plug on its…
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Germans, Survivors Confront Shoah Together
Sam Weinreb and Anna Theresa Bachmann couldn’t be more different. He’s an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor; she’s a 19-year-old German whose grandfather was a member of Hitler’s Waffen SS, which played a leading role in the destruction of European Jewry. Yet, they share a common goal: They have joined together to give talks about the Holocaust…
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Kamm Affair Continues To Roil Israel
In Israel, the most famous name charged with espionage for leaking classified information was nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for providing a British newspaper with information and photos of the Israeli nuclear reactor in Dimona. That is, until Anat Kamm. The 23-year-old former Israel Defense Forces soldier, set to go…
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