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Poll: Americans Like Their Politicians Religious, But Not Too Religious
Americans may require their president to be religious, but not necessarily very religious, according to a new study released last week. The survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, found that voters overwhelmingly link perceived religiousness with a positive assessment of candidates, but that the two presidential frontrunners — Democrat Hillary…
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GELT COMPLEX: Funds End Strange Trip, ADL Still in Hot Water, Living on a $21 a Week, Peacenik Internship
Funds End Strange Trip In 1921, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helped to establish a bank in Vilnius, Lithuania, to assist local Jewish communities reeling from World War I. Now, the JDC is in the unusual position of assisting the remaining Jews of Lithuania with accounts recovered from the bank it helped to establish…
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Punk Rocker’s Holy Debut
His face is peppered with multiple piercings, his neck is normally padlocked with a thick metal chain, and his dreadlocks are dyed bright orange and blood red. Bram Presser cuts an archetypal punk rock figure — but he does not blend into your average Sabbath-morning crowd. Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped an Orthodox synagogue in Australia…
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Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey
Yom Kippur is a day different from all others. It, alone in the Jewish calendar, is a “Day of Death,” a time when all the normal teachings about honoring the body are, for one day, reversed. On this day, the sanctification of ordinary life and the celebration of the body and the world are undone,…
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A ‘-palooza’ for the Rest of Us
What can you say about a Jewish music festival that rounds up nine eclectic musical acts, puts them on the same 9-hour bill and then holds the festival the Sunday before Rosh Hashanah? Ambitious, to say the least. When you attract over a thousand people to a festival that combines the Do-It-Yourself aesthetic of the…
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No Division of Jerusalem, Hillary Says
In a position paper released to JTA today, Hillary Clinton affirms her belief in Israel’s right to exist with an undivided Jersalem as its capital.
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Survey Says: Rabbis For Hillary
A survey released by the STAR project (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal) finds that a plurality of rabbis, from all religious streams, name Hillary Clinton as the presidential candidate most supportive of Israel. Asked which candidate is most supportive of Israel, 41 percent said they were unsure. Clinton polled highest, at 22 percent, followed by former…
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Jewish Dems Forced To Call Out One of Their Own
Jewish Democrats rushed to call out one of their own on Friday, after Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia – who has raised hackles with previous comments about the “Israel lobby” – went at it again in the latest issue of Tikkun. In the September/October 2007 issue of the magazine, Moran is quoted as having said…
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AJC Honors Muslim Zionist
COURAGEOUS BANGLADESHI HONORED BY THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE “I am proud to be a Muslim Zionist, proclaimed Salah Choudhury at the American Jewish Committee’s August 2 luncheon, held in his honor. Choudhury is publisher and editor of Weekly Blitz, the largest tabloid English-language weekly in Bangladesh. In 2003, after attempting to go to Israel for…
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Kinky Goes Straight to the Democratic Party
After finishing fourth in last year’s gubernatorial race in Texas, provocateur and vehement political independent Kinky Friedman has announced he’s mulling a rematch in 2010 – as a Democrat. “If God was running as an independent (in 2006), he couldn’t have beat Rick Perry,” Kinky recently told the Associated Press.
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It wouldn’t be Rosh Hashanah without it. Here is President Bush’s greeting for the new year
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