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Christie Brinkley Goes Organic
OLDER THAN THE STATE OF ISRAEL, TEL AVIV MUSEUM CELEBRATES CALDER GALA In 1930, Tel Aviv’s first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, gave his home over to the city to be transformed into the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, with the injunction: “Guard it, for it bears a blessing, for it is destined to become an honor…
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McCain, Obama Turn Aipac Event Into Battleground for Mideast Views
Washington – Despite a concerted effort by the pro-Israel lobby in Washington to maintain a spirit of bipartisanship in this election year, this past week’s annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee turned into a charged campaign battleground between Republican John McCain and the newly nominated Democrat, Barack Obama. In front of some…
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As Olmert Totters, Kadima Looks to Livni for Clean Break From Past
Haifa, Israel – As Ehud Olmert’s premiership appeared to be crumbling this week, all eyes in Israel were turning to his likely successor, squeaky-clean Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is widely viewed as the ruling Kadima party’s much-needed antidote to the corruption-dogged leader. Signs that the end is near for Olmert are surfacing on every…
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As Battle Over Dead Oligarch’s Fortune Rages, American Lawyer Languishes in a Belarus Jail
The fate of a Soviet-born American lawyer withering away in a Belorussian jail has taken a decidedly bizarre turn in recent weeks. The government of Belarus is pressing new charges against him. The American government, meanwhile, is calling for his immediate release. And to top it all off, in several countries a spate of legal…
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News From Postville May Be Treyf, but Kosher Consumers Keep Buying
The news of the massive immigration raid on the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States has triggered national headlines and outrage among a group of vocal Jewish activists, but the raid seems to be having little impact on consumers’ appetite for kosher meat. Based on conversations with kosher butchers, rabbinic authorities and consumers across…
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Ahmadinejad Faces Intra-Party Challenge
With one year to go before Iran’s next presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing an open and increasingly pointed challenge from rivals within his own conservative camp. On June 1, Ahmadinejad’s archrival and likely 2009 opponent, Ali Larijani, was elected to the powerful post of speaker of parliament for one year. Within hours of Larijani’s…
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Will Conservative Day Schools Survive?
If a newly proposed Hebrew-language charter school opens in Brooklyn, its longest shadow may be cast on a nearby school that is, in some respects, already the borough’s Little Engine That Could. Several years ago, the East Midwood Hebrew Day School — a kindergarten through eighth grade academy that is Brooklyn’s only Conservative day school…
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Kosher Industry Lacks Contingency Plan
In the wake of a massive raid at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, kosher authorities acknowledge that they have no contingency plan that could replace the company’s kosher meat production. Since the raid at Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, the company has struggled to ramp up production in a factory that has supplied more than…
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Clinton Donors Line Up for Obama
For those who have been wondering for months if and when Jewish Clinton loyalists would throw their weight behind Barack Obama, let June 4 be known, henceforth, as the date for coming out from behind the furniture. One day after Obama, the 46-year old freshman senator from Illinois, completed his long, hard slog from a…
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The Aipac Conference: Olmert Takes a Break, Right Turn for Agenda, Hagee Wins Applause
Olmert Takes a Break Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, under fire at home for a deepening corruption scandal, left behind his political trouble in Israel for a two-day visit to hear Senators Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton speak to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Saying he was “deeply impressed” by all the candidates’…
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Longest Running Salon, Still Going Strong
You could call it New York City’s longest-running soiree. For more than 60 years, a German-speaking salon has gathered each Wednesday, attracting artists, intellectuals and literary types — Jews and non-Jews, mostly to the left of center, who’ve sought to maintain their ties to Germanic culture despite disaffection for the political extremism of the 1930s….
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