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Super Tuesday: Snapshots From Across the Country
California San Francisco Surrogates Tussle A week before Super Tuesday, campaign representatives for the three leading Democratic presidential contenders — and former Alaskan senator Mike Gravel, who remains in the race — took turns selling their candidates to San Francisco Jewish Democrats. In a lively forum at the Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club, a group…
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Olmert Spared as Winograd Report Labels Lebanon War a ‘Missed Opportunity’
Despite a damning report stating that Israel’s summer 2006 war with Hezbollah “failed to achieve its objectives,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government seem to be emerging politically unharmed. The report of a national commission headed by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd was expected to send shockwaves through the Israeli political system. But the commission’s…
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Methodist Church Renews Drive For Divestment From Israel
Washington – Tensions are re-emerging between Jewish organizations and some mainline Protestant churches in the wake of a renewed drive for churches to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The United Methodist Church opened discussions last Friday on a resolution calling for divestment from Caterpillar, the tractor manufacturer, because the company supplies Israel with…
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Joe Rides Shotgun as McCain’s Straight-Talk Express Rolls On
In more than a quarter-century of public life, John McCain has been called a lot of things. But this week, on the cusp of what proved to be a pivotal win in the Florida Republican primary, one of his leading supporters bestowed upon the Arizona senator a new title: “Maccabee.” “McCain is definitely part Maccabeean,”…
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As Campaign Surges, Obama Working to Quell Jewish Fears
Mere minutes before he was inducted into Camelot, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama shifted his attention from the Kennedy clan to the Jewish tribe. Immediately prior to accepting the endorsement of Senator Edward Kennedy on Monday afternoon in Washington, Obama conducted a conference call with Jewish reporters in an effort to dispel concerns on a…
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Claiming Discrimination, Lawyer Sues Own Firm
A former associate in the New York office of one of the world’s largest law firms has sued his old employer, claiming he was harassed, and ultimately fired, for observing the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Norman David Schoenfeld filed a complaint in federal court last month against Allen & Overy, a London-based firm that, according…
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Kaufman Center’s Curtain Raiser
A NEW ARCHITECTURAL FACE FOR THE KAUFMAN CENTER The details of the eight-month, $17 million renovation of the Kaufman Center — located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and home to the Merkin Concert Hall — by the New York firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects are daunting. What I can say of its January 8 mazel…
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Novel Illuminates Memories of Lost Shtetl
In 2002, an unknown young writer named Jonathan Safran Foer published his first novel, “Everything Is Illuminated.” The book, a fictionalized account of a young man’s search for his grandfather’s Ukrainian shtetl, was released to wild critical acclaim, propelling the title to the top of best-seller lists and its author to instant literary fame. Less…
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Passport Crunch Nixes Travel Plans for Expat U.S. Citizens
A passport crisis is forcing hundreds of American citizens living in Israel to cancel travel plans to the United States. Since the summer, the American consulate in Jerusalem and the American embassy in Tel Aviv have ceased providing services to all visitors except those who have managed to schedule an appointment, resulting in an average…
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In Negev Town Buffeted By Rocket Fire, Wireless Networks Flourish
Free to play the very latest educational computer games on state-of-the-art laptops, the 33 children at Eshel kindergarten would appear to be some of the luckiest around. With Eshel’s teachers able to use a townwide wireless network to plan programs using all the resources the Internet has to offer, the school is among the most…
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Up From the Ashes: A Family Story Unearthed
I never had the religious identity crisis that strikes so many Jewish adolescents and young adults. Never, that is, until last year, when my great-grandparents were disinterred from their graves and summarily dismissed from a Jewish cemetery. The saga started when my great-uncle Bobby died in March, just before his 88th birthday. His will stated…
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