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States to Watch: PA, FL, OH, VA, CO
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida – all key traditional presidential battlegrounds and all traditional battlegrounds for the Jewish vote will likely be critical once again in this year’s contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Two other states to watch though will be Virginia, where 1.3 percent of the population is Jewish, and Colorado,…
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U.S. Mounting Effort To Counter Limits on Speech Critical of Islam
The Bush administration, European governments and advocates of freedom of speech are ramping up efforts to counter what they see as a campaign by Muslim countries to suppress speech about religion, especially Islam. The debate focuses on a United Nations resolution called “Combating Defamation of Religion,” sponsored by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference….
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The Ibos of Nigeria: Members of the Tribe?
Lagos, Nigeria — Efraim Uba was born and raised Catholic in southeastern Nigeria, the homeland of the Ibo ethnic group. He spent 17 years as a Pentecostal preacher before joining a messianic congregation where members wore yarmulkes and tallits but praised Jesus. In 1999, one congregant traveled to Israel and came back claiming that the…
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Orthodox Rabbis To Set Voluntary Guidelines for Kosher Businesses
In the wake of a widely publicized initiative by the Conservative movement to link kashrut with Jewish ethics, the largest umbrella organization of Orthodox rabbis has announced that it will devise its own set of ethical guidelines for the kosher food industry. On September 23, the Rabbinical Council of America, which serves as the rabbinic…
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Cool and Dashing, Paul Newman Was a New Kind of Jewish Star
While in high school in the early 1960s, my older brother bore a fleeting, flattering resemblance to Paul Newman. Any movie buff could see it. Like Newman, he was fair-skinned, with curly light-brown hair and striking aqua-blue eyes. And like Newman, he was cool. Hipster cool. Shades-wearing cool. But there was something else, something subliminal,…
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Haredim Begin Confronting Pedophilia
After years in which the issue of pedophilia has been quietly dealt with among ultra-Orthodox Jews, a number of leaders in the community are speaking out publicly on the topic, spurring anger and debate over this sensitive issue. Sexual abuse of children has periodically arisen in the ultra-Orthodox community through high-profile cases like that of…
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Chabad Pushes Big Development in L.A.
Los Angeles — The ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement is famous for multitasking, with its religious services, schools and museums, but a new development in Los Angeles is taking Chabad in an unexpected direction: the commercial and residential real estate business. Chabad of California is angling to build a massive, mixed-use development that would include a girl’s…
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Secular Israelis Accept Orthodox Services
Haifa, Israel — Until recently, the tradition on Yom Kippur at Kibbutz Nachshonim, a secular kibbutz in central Israel, was a barbecue — in defiance of the somber religious tone of the day. But times have changed. Five years ago, to the dismay of some elderly and ardently secular members of the kibbutz, younger kibbutz…
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Meditations on Forgiveness
A few days ago, Josie slapped her frenemy. They were playing a board game and there was an Issue about whether the other girl, with whom Josie has the kind of thorny torturous love-hate relationship I didn’t experience with another girl until high school, was cheating. Matters escalated, there was screaming, and Josie hauled off…
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The House of Rothschild: A Memoir
When Matthew Rothschild was 8 years old, his grandfather told him a story about a little boy from Chelm who lost his name down a hole. “He was walking along the road,” his grandfather told him, “and shouted his name into the hole. It wasn’t until he got home that he realized it was gone…
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Charlie Rose, Friend of France
BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY AND CHARLIE ROSE DEBATE ABOUT FRANCE’S NEW LEFT “The man to my right writes about ‘the Left’… his history is a stand for freedom, liberty,” said TV journalist Charlie Rose of Bernard-Henri Lévy, whom he interviewed at the September 15 luncheon hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française in its Le Skyroom. Rose,…
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