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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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Obama Meets With Jewish Leaders
Barack Obama met with Cleveland Jewish leaders in a private meeting Sunday a few hours before his chief Jewish surrogate, Florida Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, took questions from a crowd of 500 at a local synagogue. Obama suggested in his meeting that a driving force in his Jewish campaign was fighting back against an Internet…
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American and Moldovan Groups at Odds Over Property
A piece of land in Kishinev, Moldova, that was once home to a synagogue and is the place where a Jewish community center now sits has become the focus of a legal battle between American and Moldovan Jewish organizations. According to officials at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Association of Jewish Organizations and…
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St. Petersburg University Clashes With City Officials
Russia’s only graduate program dedicated to Jewish studies is caught in the crossfire between its parent university and St. Petersburg city officials, who closed the university last week over fire code violations. Critics say the closure was a politically motivated response to a university course in election monitoring. The European University at St. Petersburg, which…
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His Path: From Jewish Camp to the Oscars
Often, the biggest question at the Oscars besides “Who’s going to win?” is “Who is that?” followed by the thought: “Wonder what he’ll be doing next year.” Turns out, one of the men who stood with Al Gore to accept the 2007 Oscar for best documentary had already been the key creative force behind several…
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An Unlikely Love Story
It doesn’t seem like Mutsuyo the Japanese dancer and Norman the Jewish businessman have much in common at the start of Kyoko Yokoma’s documentary, “Dancing With Lives.” Yet there they are onscreen, getting married. In a few minutes time, their stories unfold and all becomes clear. Mutsuyo lost her entire family in 1995 in a…
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Obama, Farrakhan, Russert and Us
I confess, as a Jew, I was left squirming in my seat as I watched Tim Russert grill Barack Obama last night about what one TV commentator later casually referred to as “the Jewish issue.” How did Jews wind up being a campaign “issue”? In part, it’s Russert’s fault. The “Meet the Press” host and…
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Cartoons Counter Swastika Shock
Not everyone would look at Scotch Tape and think of snails, but Sam Gross did and came up with the most popular cartoon in his 50-year career. One snail looks at another and says, “I don’t care if she’s a tape dispenser. I love her.” It’s a high concept sight gag and it’s all in…
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Blind Rabbi Picks Up Steam in Race
Rabbi Dennis Shulman is gaining ground in his Democratic congressional bid to unseat Rep. Scott Garrett in northern New Jersey’s fifth congressional district. If elected, Shulman, a nationally known clinical psychologist who has been blind since adolescence, will become the only rabbi to serve in Congress. While Garrett, a conservative Republican first elected in 2003,…
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Costa Rica Opens Official Ties With ‘State of Palestine’
Seizing upon the Bush administration’s recent push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, the Palestinian Authority has been working to expand the number of countries that recognize Palestine as a country. The effort received a major boost when Costa Rica, one of the first countries to recognize Israel and, until recently, one of the very few…
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