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Bully for You
Adventures in sibling conflict, installment #3,121: Three months ago, at the Sacred Ritual Changing of the Toothbrushes, it was Josie’s turn to choose a brush. She chose the pink My Little Pony version with lavender bristles, leaving the purple one with blue bristles for Maxie, who wailed in thwarted fury. (If I could get the…
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Eating (Jewish) in India
The candles were lit just before sundown, and the Sabbath meal was about to be served. Instead of challah, though, we started off with tapioca chips. And there was no sign of brisket anywhere. For we were in Kochi, India (formerly known as Cochin), and the setting for Friday dinner was at one of the…
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Evangelical’s Endorsement Spurs Debate
Jewish leaders are divided over whether Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain should reject a recent endorsement from the Rev. John Hagee, with one prominent rabbi taking the leader of the Anti-Defamation League to task over his refusal to criticize the GOP candidate. Hagee, an evangelical Christian minister from San Antonio, Texas, has long courted controversy…
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In Wake of Movement’s Shift, California Conservative Rabbis Rally Behind Same-Sex Marriage Rights
Los Angeles — In 2005, when a Jewish gay-marriage activist first pressed California rabbis to sign a statement supporting full marriage equality for gays and lesbians, only a handful of Conservative rabbis lent their names. Over the course of the past two months, however, more than a dozen Conservative rabbis here have signed on to…
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Barack Obama’s Jewish YouTube Campaign
Barack Obama’s campaign is taking its Jewish outreach strategy to YouTube with a pair of videos of him talking about Israel. The first video is a recorded message to the people of Sderot, which was shown at the recent “Live for Sderot” fund-raiser in Los Angeles: The second features excerpts of his recent remarks to…
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Top Pro-Palestinian Lobbyist Ousted
The executive director of America’s leading pro-Palestinian advocacy group was ousted recently, following allegations of financial misconduct. Rafi Dajani, who was the American Task Force on Palestine’s second-ranking official and one of the country’s most visible speakers on Palestinian affairs, was fired in late January due to an “apparent breach of his fiduciary responsibilities,” according…
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Spotlight on Women’s Health
KATI MARTON AND NOBEL LAUREATE MUHAMMAD YUNUS HONORED AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH COALITION GALA “In my travels, I have learned that if the world is going to be saved, it will be women who will do the saving,” said Kati Marton, who, with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, was honored at the February…
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Long-Silenced Iranian Jews Find Their Political Voice
Los Angeles – When Beverly Hills’s Iranian Jewish mayor, Jimmy Jamshid Delshad, ran for office in 2007, he faced an uphill battle. But contrary to conventional wisdom, his biggest challenge wasn’t persuading skeptical non-Iranians to rally behind him. Instead, Delshad’s toughest fight was convincing his natural constituency — the city’s roughly 8,000 Iranian American Jews…
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Farrakhan Casts Long Shadow on Campaign Trail
Washington – Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and icon of black antisemitism in America, is emerging once again as a prominent factor in the political arena, causing trouble not only for Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama but also for a number of other political candidates. In a February 24 speech in Chicago…
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Israelis Fume Over Smoking Ban on Army Bases
Tel Aviv – Mutiny is brewing in the Israeli army. The protest isn’t political, like past incidents of disobedience by hard right-wingers who refuse to evacuate settlements, and hard left-wingers who refuse to serve in the Palestinian territories. This rebellion is bubbling up across the political spectrum. The anger is directed toward the Knesset and…
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McCain Absent From Jewish Debate
What was supposed to be a bipartisan debate among the three major presidential campaigns turned into a Democratic showdown, as the McCain campaign pulled out at the last minute from a scheduled debate of surrogates before a gathering of Jewish leaders. With the McCain camp absent, Jewish representatives of the Clinton and Obama campaigns vied…
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