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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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A Desperate Campaign To Remember Soviet Jewish War Heroes Races Against Time
Toronto — Leonid Shenker likes to greet visitors to his apartment here dressed in his Soviet military ensemble, the jacket heavy with medals and stripes. At 88, the former Soviet veteran needs a walker to move across the apartment, which he doesn’t leave unless accompanied by his daughter. But his voice is clear and proud…
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Ritual Ramadan Dinner Becomes an Opportunity for Muslims to Reach Out
Washington — It has been a busy month for some Muslim Americans. According to Muslim tradition, the holy month of Ramadan is marked by fasting from dawn to dusk, ending each day with a festive meal known as Iftar. According to an emerging American tradition, Iftar is a great opportunity to show respect to the…
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Film Portrays Obama as Friend to Israel
Los Angeles — In the ongoing battle for Jewish votes, Democratic activists are using prominent Israelis to burnish Barack Obama’s Jewish bona fides. A Jewish pro-Obama group and two Israeli-American filmmakers have released “Israelis for Obama,” a three-and-a-half minute video aimed at convincing American Jews that the Illinois senator is a friend of the Jewish…
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Diplomats and Regional Experts Trade Ideas and Barbs About Middle East
Lansdowne, Va. — Shifting political realities in Israel, the United States and the Palestinian Authority have sent Middle East experts and policymakers scrambling to make sense of the new emerging situation and its possible impact on the peace process. For dozens of regional experts and leaders who convened in Virginia on September 19 for a…
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More Controversy-Plagued Holocaust Records Transferred to Museum
A second batch of Holocaust-era documents from the Bad Arolsen archives in Germany has been transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, adding another 8.5 million digital images to the museum’s collection of nearly 18 million. The new batch of documents consists of information about people whom the Nazis drove into forced labor during…
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Averting Kosher Crisis, Meat Giant Hires Long-time Attorney to be New CEO
The country’s largest supplier of kosher meat has appointed one of its lawyers to be its new CEO, saving itself from the threat of losing kosher certification during one of the busiest times of the kosher shopping calendar. On September 18, kosher giant Agriprocessors announced that it had hired Bernard Feldman, a Long Island attorney…
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