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For his first book, “The Know-It-All” (Simon & Schuster, 2004), Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs tasked himself with reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica — from “a-ak” to “zywiec” — to become the smartest person in the world. When it came time for him to pen a second work, he wanted to immerse himself in something even…
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Singing the Gospel for Obama
The Obama campaign is announcing the launch of an “unprecedented gospel concert tour” in South Carolina as part of the campaign’s grassroots “40 Days of Faith & Family” effort. The concerts, which will be next week, will feature Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin and Hezekiah Walker, Grammy Award winners all, as well as gospel quartet the…
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Foxman Pens New Tome
A MYRIAD OF GOLDAS AND A FOXMAN BOOK PARTY It’s raining Goldas! First came Sholem Aleychem’s Golda, Tevye the milkman’s wife. In 1982, Ingrid Bergman portrayed Golda Meir in the TV bio-film “A Woman Named Golda.” In 2003, Tovah Feldshuh channeled Meir in William Gibson’s Broadway hit “Golda’s Balcony,” and she also portrays Meir in…
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GOP Candidates Use Jewish Forum To Knock Bush’s Push for Peace
Washington – In an appearance before Jewish voters Tuesday, all five Republican presidential candidates expressed skepticism about the Bush administration’s current push for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The event, hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, featured the leading contenders for the GOP nomination: Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred…
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Turkish Jews Decry Armenian Genocide Bill
In its bare-knuckled lobbying to defeat a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, Turkey has gained a valuable ally: its own Jews. Last week an advertisement from the “Jewish community of Turkey” was published in the conservative Washington Times and was quickly passed around the capital by Turkey’s lobbyists. The ad warned that the overwhelming…
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Atheistic Denomination Struggles To Fill Void Left by Founder’s Death
When hundreds of practitioners of Humanistic Judaism convene in Michigan this weekend, the absence of their movement’s founder, Rabbi Sherwin Wine, is sure to be deeply felt. For nearly a half-century, Wine was the leader and public face of Humanistic Judaism, a tiny, mostly American movement that celebrates Judaism as a culture, while eschewing a…
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Bay Area Artists Fight Over Framing of Mideast Conflict
Oakland, Calif. – Over the past few months, the City by the Bay has become the city in the fray. Driven by three separate incidents, a communitywide debate has emerged over the Middle East conflict — and, specifically, how it is expressed artistically, in both public and private spaces. Last August, San Francisco State University…
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Battle Forming Over Jewel of Yiddish Stage
For the past decade, the Yiddish theater district of Manhattan’s Second Avenue has been dark, save for one tiny flicker of activity in a four-story building on East 7th Street. Every few months, the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club would take over the second-floor banquet hall of the Hebrew Actors Union, located on the…
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Navigating the Wake of Ann Coulter’s ‘Perfect’ Storm
Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter ignited a firestorm last week, and she did it with a single word. In an October 8 appearance on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch, the ever-provocative Coulter said that what Christians ultimately want is for Jews to be “perfected” into Christians. “That,” she said, “is what Christianity is….
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Groups Fight for Affordable Housing as Number of Jews in Poverty Rises
Washington – With record-high house foreclosures driving up demand for affordable public housing, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and B’nai B’rith International are launching an intense lobbying effort to increase government funding for low-income units. The main focus of the month-long advocacy campaign is to push forward the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act,…
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L.A. Jewish Groups Focus on Silver Screen
Los Angeles – Mark Jonathan Harris steers clear of attending synagogue services and claims membership in not one Jewish organization. But the filmmaker says that he expresses his identity in another very essential way: through his work. In fact, two of Harris’s three Oscars were for Holocaust-related documentaries, and he cites the mantra of “Never…
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