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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’s That Time of Year
It wouldn’t be Rosh Hashanah without it. Here is President Bush’s greeting for the new year
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Yid.Dish: The Search for the Perfect Pomegranate Chicken (and Seitan) Continues
When I last left you, I had just placed approximately 4 1/2 pounds of chicken into a large zip-lock bag to marinade in some lovely pomegranate juice with a cinnamon stick….This marinating went on for 2 days (I kid you not). Each day I would turn the bag to make sure that the chicken pieces…
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Shining Light on Celan’s Dark Words
What do you do after pioneering Barbez, a combination Slavic cabaret and Jewish New York punk band? If you’re Dan Kaufman, Barbez’s frontman, you set aside anything pop-oriented or melody-bound and fling yourself over the avant-garde bridge. “Force of Light,” a series of compositions reinterpreting Paul Celan’s poetry, makes no effort to be listener-friendly. Paul…
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Top Reform Rabbi Gives Watershed Address to Largest U.S. Muslim Group
The head of America’s largest Jewish denomination last week became the first top Jewish communal leader in recent memory to address a major American Muslim organization. At the 44th annual conference of Chicago’s Islamic Society of North America last Friday, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, called for an end to…
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Ban on Political Junkets to Israel Deals Blow to Lobbying Efforts
Washington – In a challenge to one of the most powerful lobbying tactics used by the Jewish community, a county in Maryland decided last week that local legislators could no longer go on sponsored trips to Israel. Montgomery County’s ethics commission decided last month that council members are prohibited from traveling at the expense of…
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Calls Grow for Creation of Standing U.N. Army
United Nations – With the unchecked violence in Darfur exposing the United Nations’ continued inability to respond quickly to unfolding crises, several members of Congress have joined an international coalition of nongovernmental organizations in calling for a standing emergency peacekeeping force. The envisioned U.N. Emergency Peace Service would be 15,000 to 18,000 strong and include…
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CNN Comes Under Unprecedented Attack
A CNN documentary about religious extremists has prompted an unprecedented outcry from the organized Jewish community, including a call to advertisers to pressure the network
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