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Fla. Congressman: Sarah Palin Comment ‘Not Smart’
Days after telling a group of Jewish Democratic leaders that “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks,” Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings is apologizing for his not so smart comments about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during last week’s National Jewish Democratic Council’s Washington…
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Pastors Endorsements to Test IRS Politics at the Pulpit Prohibition
If the Northminster Church that the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy leads in Monroe, La. were to endorse a presidential candidate, the decision would cause a deep and irreparable rift within the Baptist congregation. Instead of being known for their religious denomination or community works, churches, synagogues and mosques like Northminster would become Red, Blue and…
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Survey Numbers Show American Jews To Be Less Religious on Many Measures
Religiously speaking, Jews are joiners but not necessarily believers, according to a new look at the data from a massive survey of religion in the United States. Compared with the major Christian denominations in the United States, American Jews are affiliated but remarkably secular, according to a report that draws on figures from the U.S….
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Israeli Human Rights Group Becomes First of Its Kind To Set Up Office in D.C.
Washington — A new and unusual player is joining the Israel advocacy scene in the nation’s capital. B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights watchdog organization, launched its Washington operation September 24, aiming to spread information regarding Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians to the crowd of Capitol Hill policymakers and Middle East think tanks, and to…
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Orthodox Rabbis To Link Kashrut, Ethics
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 business practices and will ask members of the kosher food industry to sign on. The Rabbinical Council…
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Obama Still Struggling With Jewish Voters
Democrat Barack Obama enjoys a nearly 2-1 advantage among Jewish voters over Republican John McCain, yet his support continues to lag well-behind historical levels that Democrats have enjoyed from the Jewish community, according to a new survey of Jewish voters. The American Jewish Committee’s 2008 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion shows Obama leading McCain…
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Hillary Speaks at Israel Event
HILLARY A HIT AT ISRAEL BONDS DINNER Shouts of “We love you!” greeted Senator Hillary Clinton, keynote speaker at the September 18 National Labor Division State of Israel Bonds dinner honoring Stuart Appelbaum, president, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UFCW. “I’m told more [Israel bonds] money was raised tonight than at any other labor…
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As Holidays Near, Rabbis Debate the Limits of Politics From the Pulpit
Washington— Intense interest in the presidential election, combined with the desire among many rabbis to speak out when pews are packed for the High Holy Days, has left many Jewish clergy grappling with what they can say from the pulpit as they navigate the legal thicket of church-state regulations. The Internal Revenue Service has recently…
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Wall Street Woes Challenge Shuls To Confront Crisis
On September 17, as the financial markets teetered on the brink of outright collapse, a networking group of financial executives gathered in a conference room at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn., to talk things over. Matthew Bud, a synagogue member who organizes the group, recalled that the mood was grim as participants practiced their networking…
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Demand for Jewish Eggs Attracts Israeli Donors
A small but growing number of Jewish Israeli women are traveling to the United States to donate their eggs to infertile Jewish couples undergoing in vitro fertilization — a trend that some say strengthens Jewish continuity but also raises serious moral questions about the commercialization of fertility. There are at least three egg donor companies…
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Even With Fewer Voters, GOP’s Jews Outspend Democrats
Washington — During a recent conference call in which Ira Forman decried what he considered to be misleading ads by the Republican Jewish Coalition, he was asked whether his organization planned to counter with ads of its own in a state like Minnesota. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said he didn’t think…
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