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Jewish Allies Quarry Support for McCain and Obama in Granite State
New Hampshire may only have 10,000 Jews, but the state’s primary election had a Jewish stamp on it. Senator John McCain’s surprising win in the Granite State came just days after he received backing from Joe Lieberman, the Senate’s most famous Jew, while Barack Obama got help from Paul Hodes, one of New Hampshire’s four…
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Kashrut Certifiers Fight Over Slaughterhouse Turf
A conflict between supervising rabbis at an embattled kosher slaughterhouse has become public, opening a window into the usually closed world of kashrut certification. Rabbis who represent K’hal Adath Jeshurun, a small ultra-Orthodox community based in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, have announced that they will not continue to certify products at the huge…
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With Detroit Economy Sputtering, Federation Offers Housing Help
With the city’s population reeling from a battered economy and a plunging housing market, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit has begun offering housing assistance to Jewish families to help stave off the threat of foreclosure. For the past month, the Jewish Housing Assistance Program has been providing loans, advice and negotiating assistance to community…
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Kosher Meat Company Loses Legal Fight to Union
It has not been a good week for AgriProcessors, the world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. In addition to a falling-out between two of its kashrut certifiers, the company recently lost an appeal in federal court and continues to field attacks from the slaughterhouse workers’ union. Last week, a federal court of appeals rejected AgriProcessors’ claim that…
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Activists Push for New Religious Politics
A coalition of Jewish activists is working to inject the presidential race with “values voters” — from the left. Dubbed the “Righteous Indignation Project,” the newly launched campaign has Jewish social justice groups in 10 cities trying to mobilize liberal Jews to participate in broader voter education and registration drives in 2008. Organizers say they’re…
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JNF ‘Greens’ Its Tree-Planting Program
It seems, at first glance, like an obvious idea for the Jewish National Fund: Take the organization’s signature program — tree-planting in Israel — and repackage it for a new generation and a new historical moment, as a way to combat global warming. (Trees absorb the primary greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and transform it into…
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GELT COMPLEX: Foundation’s Plans Foiled by Success, Biggest Jewish Gifts Elude Jewish Causes, Court: Chabad May Boot Rebels From 770
Foundation’s Plans Foiled by Success The Avi Chai Foundation has the sort of problem most people dream about: It’s making too much money. Founded and endowed by a successful financier, Avi Chai has made it a policy objective to spend itself out of existence by 2020. But despite its best efforts, the foundation keeps growing….
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Gender Matters: The Bell Curve of Girliness
When Josie was 2, I wrote a column about my bafflement at her girly-girlness. How could I, a person unburdened by mascara or a blowdryer, have spawned someone who so loved nail polish, frills and Hello Kitty hair accessories? At the time, I expressed shock. Today, older, wiser, and most importantly, the mother of two…
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Reading Ron Paul’s Old Newsletters: ’93 WTC Bombing a Mossad ‘Set-Up’?
The New Republic’s James Kirchik reads the political newsletters that Ron Paul was busy putting out in the decades before he became a national political figure. In the future presidential candidate’s newsletters Kirchik finds crazy conspiracy theories, hostility to blacks in general (and Martin Luther King Jr. in particular), anti-gay remarks and some unkind words…
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Larry David Thinks Obama Would Make a Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good President
Barack Obama has a surly nebbish stumping in the Dartmouth College dorms for him — “Seinfeld” co-creator and star of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David. “Haven’t we had enough with Bushes and Clintons and Bushes,” David told students. “The country needs a shower, a good, long, hot shower. That’s what Obama is, a hot…
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NJDC: Huckabee Is an ‘Extremist’
The National Jewish Democratic Council doesn’t approve of the choice of Republican caucus-goers. In a statement, the NJDC dubbed the former Arkansas governor an “extremist”; called his record on church-state issues is “frightening”; rapped him over his opposition to dual citizenship, pointing to Americans who vote in Israeli elections; and said that he “has not…
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