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Obama Campaign Taps New Arab Outreach Director
A few weeks after Barack Obama’s first Arab-American outreach person resigned amid controversy over past connections to an imam, the campaign has tapped attorney Rashida Tlaib to be its outreach director in Michigan, where Tlaib just won a state primary, the Forward has learned. Ben LaBolt, an Obama campaign spokesman, confirmed the appointment for a…
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Is Carter’s Convention Role a ‘Backward Compliment’?
UPDATED 7:02 p.m. Mountain Time Much has been made of the balancing act that Barack Obama’s campaign has had to walk as it tries to honor and respect Bill and Hillary Clinton without detracting from what should be Obama’s moment during this week’s Democratic National Convention. But the role of another former president is proving…
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Bagels, Lox and Barack
Supporters of Barack Obama readily acknowledge a lingering reluctance among many Jewish voters to embrace the presumptive nominee. The campaign has recently stepped up its outreach to Jewish voters and the Jewish community at large, including naming long-time adviser Daniel Shapiro to a formal role in the Obama campaign. Jewish and political leaders say the…
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Yid.dish: Tomato Times Two
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s tomato season. Our CSA specializes in Heirloom tomatoes, so this means at this time of year, we usually get three different varieties in our weekly box: usually grape tomatoes, heirlooms and one other variety like Romas. While the temptation is always there just to eat them fresh with just…
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Democrats Put Faith in Religion(s)
It sounds like the start of a joke: A Jewish rabbi, a Muslim imam, a Catholic and a Buddhist stood up at the Democratic National Convention. Such a scenario was unthinkable just four years ago. But as Democrats begin their national nominating convention here in Denver, such a scene was not only non-fiction, but representative…
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The Jewish To-Dos at the Democratic Convention
Democratic delegates and party leaders have begun streaming into the Mile High City for a week of parties, fundraisers, concerts, panel discussions and, oh yes, the very much scripted convention itself that will culminate with Barack Obama becoming the Democratic nominee Thursday night. Here’s a rundown of some of the events that might be of…
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Campaign Confidential Returns (Just in Time for the Conventions)
There’s nothing quite like diving right in. That’s what I’ll be doing in Denver, where I’ll be for the start of my new post as the Forward’s political correspondent, just in time for the week-long Barack Obama infomercial also known as the Democratic National Convention. Along with Nathan Guttman, the paper’s Washington correspondent, I’ll be…
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Olmert Accuser Faces FBI Probe Into Allegations of Money Laundering
Washington — A New York businessman who is at the center of a corruption scandal that brought down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now facing an FBI investigation into alleged money laundering and tax evasion. A federal grand jury was convened in Brooklyn last month and has begun subpoenaing witnesses and documents involved in the…
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Rabbi To Give Invocation on Obama’s Big Day
Washington — Presidential historians and convention observers believe this year’s Democratic convention will be the first time that a rabbi gives an invocation before the presidential nominee’s acceptance speech since the advent of modern American political conventions nearly a century ago. Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, will be…
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Last Call for Landsmanschaften? Aid Societies Fold as Old-Country Ties Fade
For the members of a century-old Jewish fraternal society, the organization’s breakup has literally turned into a fight over graves. The Rohatyner Young Men’s Society is one of the last of the landsmanschaften, benefit societies formed at the turn of the past century by groups of townsfolk who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. Thousands of…
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Rehab Programs Counter Substance Abuse With an Infusion of Judaism
Los Angeles — Four recovering addicts celebrated their sobriety “birthdays” on a recent Friday, in keeping with an Alcoholics Anonymous tradition. But the celebration occurred during a Sabbath service, and the prayer expressing gratitude for recovery from addiction was recited alongside the Shema. The venue was Beit T’Shuvah, so far the country’s only Jewish residential…
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