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Civil Rights Legend Stumps for Obama Among Brooklyn, New Jersey Jews
On June 29, Brooklyn showed that New Hampshire is not the only place for unity these days. Coming fast on the heels of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s show of Democratic Party solidarity in Unity, N.H., dozens of Orthodox Jews joined elected officials from both the Jewish and African-American communities on the final Sunday in…
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Prisoner Deal Scrambles Jewish State’s Politics
Haifa, Israel – As Israel awaited final word on its prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, the country was torn by an unusual debate reflecting the painful dilemma facing the government. Rather than pitting right vs. left or government vs. press and public, like most political disputes, the prisoner swap has pitted the government and the press…
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Israeli Prime Minister Turns Tables, Asks Diaspora: What Can We Do for You?
Ehud Olmert’s appearance at the annual meeting of the Jewish Agency for Israel in late June was a boilerplate appearance for a prime minister, but what came out of his mouth when he got to the podium was anything but a standard stump speech. Olmert used his appearance to tackle the fraught relationship between Israel…
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David vs. Goliath on Lower East Side: Yiddishist Challenges N.Y. Powerbroker
This September, residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the cradle of Yiddish culture in America, will be able to choose between not one but two Yiddish-speaking candidates for political office. In one corner is one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state. In the other is a 33-year-old former employee of the…
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Tensions Mount Over Lithuanian Probe
A meeting between Jewish communal officials and Lithuania’s prime minister did not dispel increasing tension over Lithuania’s investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Jewish partisans during World War II. During a visit to New York, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas made stops at both the American Jewish Committee and the YIVO Institute for Jewish…
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Troubled California Campuses Get New Chief
Los Angeles – Less than two weeks after assuming the presidency of the University of California system on June 16, Mark Yudof departed for a nine-day trip to Israel. In a higher education system long plagued by reports of Israel-bashing on a handful of its 10 campuses, Yudof’s swift departure for the Jewish State is…
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Obama’s Faith Initiative Wins Praise
Senator Barack Obama’s proposal to expand federal funding for faith-based organizations is drawing a warm response from some Jewish communal groups who deal with church-state issues. Obama’s speech on July 1 was building on the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. That program has drawn fire from a number of Jewish groups who…
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Survey on Mideast Conflict Finds That Most Oppose Taking Sides
A new survey of international opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict found that respondents in most countries favor their governments not taking sides. The survey, conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a consortium affiliated with the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, found that in 14 out of 18 nations, people say their governments should…
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Zionists Win Effort To Keep Seats, Sway
A number of Zionist groups have won a battle to keep their influence at the American branch of a prominent Jewish organization. The American branch of Jewish National Fund, a storied organization that played a critical role in building the State of Israel, recently took steps to add board members. The move would have had…
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Attack Raises Questions About East Jerusalem
Jerusalem — The deadly terrorist attack by an Arab bulldozer driver on a crowded street here Wednesday raised questions anew about how Israeli authorities can protect against attacks by lone assailants from eastern Jerusalem. At least three people were killed and dozens injured in the noontime attack on Jaffa Road. Husam Duwayat, a 30-year-old father…
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Israeli Star Shines on the New York Stage
If Americans carry a national stereotype about Israelis, it probably revolves around images of a tough-talking, hummus-fed group of cynics. Tel Aviv-born actress Meital Dohan did little to disabuse American audiences of that notion during her weekly appearances two years ago on “Weeds,” the acerbic Showtime series in which she played Yael Hoffman, a rabbinical…
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