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Oi Va Voi’s Brave New Klezmer
The experimental London ensemble Oi Va Voi opens its self-titled third album with a brave new look into the future of klezmer. On lead single “Yuri,” a distorted, distant voice calls out, “I am a rocket, the power of the system/it’s bullet-proof technology/Oh, we’re going to a new world/Going to a better place.” Clarinet and…
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Barack in Brooklyn …
On August 22. Here’s the sign-up. Clinton has been outraising Obama in Brooklyn so far, but lately he’s been gaining ground.
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Jewish Groups Steer Clear of Judicial Fight
So far, the National Council of Jewish Women is the only Jewish group taking up the fight over the nomination of Judge Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Southwick’s nomination has been opposed by a wide array of liberal groups, including organizations representing black and gay Americans. In one past case,…
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What Happens When An Arab Wearing a "We Will Not Be Silent" T-Shirt Boards JetBlue?
According to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU yesterday, Raed Jarrar – an architect of Arabic descent who has lived in the U.S. with his American wife since 2005 – was kept off a JetBlue flight at JFK last August until he agreed to change his t-shirt, which read, “We will not be silent,” in…
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JLC Honors NYC Mayor
BLOOMBERG HAILED AS UNION-FRIENDLY BY JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE “What kind of Republican is Michael Bloomberg? The best kind: a former Republican!” said the Jewish Labor Committee’s president,Stuart Appelbaum (also president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union), at the June 12 Human Rights Awards Dinner. Award recipient Bloomberg declared: “Jews and labor are linked…
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Because It’s Never Too Early For A Little Illinois Mudslinging … UPDATE: Jay Footlik Weighs In
Put this story in your “it’s never too early to go for the low blow” file: The blogosphere has been abuzz this week after Andy Lappin, a supporter of Illinois Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, played the anti-Semite card against the two Democratic challengers vying to take the lawmaker on in 2008. Lappin sent out an…
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Good=Jews and Jews= Politicals, So Politics=Good??
Shmuel Rosner, correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is hosting an online conversation this week with the executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman. So far, it’s been a pretty standard discussion of whether the Dems are truly as pro-Israel as the GOP, etc., etc. But Forman has also provided a very…
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Food Safety Records Add to Woes of Nation’s Largest Kosher Slaughterhouse
The nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, already the subject of allegations about its treatment of workers and the animals it slaughters, has also been chastised by government regulators for its food safety record, according to newly released documents. The AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, received 250 non-compliance records from the United States Department of Agriculture during…
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Rabbi Navigates Polish-Jewish Minefield
Warsaw, Poland – After one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Poland was vandalized last week, the chief rabbi of Poland found an unexpected source of help for the clean-up: 20 Polish art students and the mayor of the town himself, all of whom helped scrub the 100 gravestones spray-painted with black swastikas. The incident,…
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Push for Mideast Peace Plan Gains Momentum Ahead Of Upcoming Summit
Jerusalem – Israeli officials are giving the first signs that they are preparing for negotiations on a final-status peace agreement with the Palestinians. Both Israelis and Palestinians are readying for an international meeting set to discuss the Middle East conflict in November, but until now the Israelis have been wary of looking at this meeting…
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Along Green Line, Both Sides Try To Work It Out
Jenin, West Bank – Just outside this northern West Bank city, the groundwork is being laid for the first Israeli-Palestinian free-trade zone along the route of the security barrier separating Israel from the West Bank. The Israeli and Palestinian officials behind the project say that with enough foreign aid, the industrial zone could generate 10,000…
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