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Freshmen Lead Record-Breaking Dem Fundraising
As the GOP mounts its campaign to recapture seats in Congress in 2008, the unusually large class of first-term Jewish Democrats is showing fundraising mettle in swing districts likely to be top Republican targets. Rep. Ron Klein, a lawmaker from Florida’s 22nd congressional district, raised nearly $1.3 million in the first half of 2007, the…
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Liberals, Russians Boo Civil-Marriage Deal
Jerusalem – An agreement reached last week between Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi and the state’s justice minister has been hailed for opening the door to civil marriages in Israel, but secular and non-Orthodox groups who have long fought to change the country’s marriage laws say that the deal does little to alleviate the plight of…
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Reform Slams Knesset Plan for JNF Land
America’s largest Jewish denomination is issuing calls for the Israeli Knesset to reverse course on a controversial piece of legislation declaring that Jewish National Fund lands can be leased only to Jews. The legislation, introduced by three Israeli Knesset members, passed last week in a vote of 64-16 in its first reading. In order for…
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Syria Talks Open, But May Soon Close
Last week, Syria and Israel acknowledged that they had held indirect peace negotiations. But a month after the Bush administration lifted its objections to Israeli overtures to Syria, Damascus is signaling a limit to its diplomacy unless the road to Jerusalem goes through Washington. In a July 17 address to the Syrian parliament, President Bashar…
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Sherwin Wine, Founder of Humanistic Judaism
Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, a writer, scholar and community leader who founded the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism, died Saturday. He was 79. Wine was killed in an automobile accident while on vacation in Essaouira, Morocco. He and his partner, Richard McMains, were traveling back to their hotel when a car hit their taxi. The…
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Campaign Confidential: Three’s a Charm, ADL Slams Ellison, Supporting Jewish Refugees
Three’s a Charm How many Jews does it take to run for Senate in Minnesota? The answer is three, according to Democrat Jim Cohen, who recently launched a long-shot bid for the seat once held by liberal standard-bearer Paul Wellstone. Cohen, a public interest lawyer with deep roots in the consumer rights and environmental movements,…
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Al’s Pals
Minnesota Senate hopeful Al Franken is the luckiest kid in the world because: A. He outraised Republican incumbent Norm Coleman during the second quarter of 2007. B. He’s got a ton of grassroots supporters sending him in small donations from around the country – donors he can go back to again and again. C. He’s…
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Alternative Jewelry
Some Jewish kids secretly long for sparkling Christmas trees and candy-filled Easter baskets, but Carlen Altman was always drawn to another, more pious Christian symbol: the rosary. So the 23-year-old stand-up comedian took matters into her own hands and started making Jewish rosaries. “I wanted to create something funny and stylish,” said the New York…
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Yidcore’s Revolution-less Rock
The Ramones, a bunch of mostly Jewish New Yorkers, invented punk rock in 1974. Ironically, then, the only way to see a great, explicitly Jewish punk band today is to hop on a flight to Australia. There, some mohawk-sporting former yeshiva high-school students have been playing in a band called Yidcore for more than half…
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The Heroes Who Aren’t
Like all boringly self-congratulatory hipster parents, I force my children to absorb the pop culture I deem groovy. Maxine, at 2, wears her Coney Island Mermaid Parade shirt; Josie, 5, bops around the house to the Ramones. We avoid eye-singeing tacky microchippy toys in favor of the Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoys of my own childhood….
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The Simpsons: A Jewish Link
While attending a Jewish day school, Noah Gradofsky, a young fan of the long-running cartoon series “The Simpsons,” had a passing idea to turn an episode into a mock page of Talmud. Years later, in rabbinical school, Gradofsky first put the idea on paper or, more accurately, on a Web site. The Simpsons Talmud, based…
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