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Activists Up Efforts To Cut Circumcision Out of Bris Ritual
A few months before his son was born, Thomas Wolfe of Wheeling, W.Va., consulted the rabbi of his Reform congregation to discuss plans for the baby’s circumcision. “I had the perception that a circumcision was just an innocuous procedure, with no risk,” he later told the Forward. After the rabbi had recommended that Wolfe find…
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Pro-Israel Christians Mobilize in D.C.
Washington – At this week’s gathering of pro-Israel Christian lobbyists, it took an unscripted moment for the most passionate sentiments to emerge. Instead of delivering an introduction to Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor, Evangelical leader and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer delivered a passionate appeal against any Israeli territorial compromise to the Palestinians. “Tell the people…
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New Eruv Reopens Old Church-State Debates in Palo Alto
Oakland, Calif. – Some lines, it seems, cannot be crossed. In 1999, Rabbi Yitzchok Feldman and his synagogue, Congregation Emek Beracha, approached the city of Palo Alto — an urbane community of tree-lined lanes that some of Silicon Valley’s and Stanford University’s finest minds call home — about creating an eruv, a delineated area in…
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Pope’s Statements Raise Concerns About Interfaith Relations
Two separate documents issued by the Vatican last week are raising concern among liberal Catholics, Protestants and Jews that Pope Benedict XVI is turning back the clock on four decades of ecumenism. On July 10, the Holy See reiterated a controversial statement from 2000 that the Protestant and Christian Orthodox denominations are not “true” Christianity….
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Antisemitic Attitudes on the Rise in Europe, Survey Finds
Negative attitudes toward Jews in Europe have increased overall since 2005, according to a newly released survey by the Anti-Defamation League. The survey of six European countries — Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Holland, Switzerland and Britain — showed that fully half of its respondents believe that Jews are not loyal to their country, and more than…
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Panel on Islamophobia Includes Conservative Voice of Dissent
The Council on American-Islamic Relations does not lack for critics — but usually they’re at a greater distance. This week, the Washington-based advocacy group, which has long been dogged by charges that it is an ally of Islamic extremists, invited American Conservative Union chairman David Keene to participate in a panel discussion on “Islamophobia” with…
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Gelt Complex: Protest in Front of U.N., WJC Official Aids Hillary, Aliyah Feud, UJC To Fund Evacuees
Protest in Front of U.N. An estimated 4,000 people protested in front of the United Nations on Monday, calling for international action to free three Israeli soldiers who were captured last summer by Hamas and Hezbollah. The event marked the one-year anniversary of the abduction of soldiers Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. The…
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At Least McCain Will Always Have the RJC
Floundering presidential contender John McCain is scheduled to speak at a breakfast of the Republican Jewish Coalition in New York a week from Friday. Apparently, a $1,000 donation to the RJC buys a picture with the much-fallen front-runner… As one Republican operative has snarkily observed to me: “Why would he waste his time raising $$$…
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U.N. Allegedly Rethinking Status of Disputed Border
United Nations – As the first anniversary of last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah approaches, the United Nations’ recognition of Israel’s full withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 reportedly may be revoked, threatening to provide new ideological ammunition to the militant Shi’ite group. The U.N. cartographer in charge of delineating the Israeli-Lebanese border is scheduled…
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The Sholem Aleichem Bobblehead Doll
He is a central figure in Yiddish literature and one of the most beloved — and prolific — Yiddish writers of all time. And now he is available in miniature form. The Sholem Aleichem Bobblehead Doll is a 7-inch, full-color, “fabulously packaged,” wobbly-headed replica of the man who wrote such masterpieces as “Motl, the Cantor’s…
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Playing Politics
Although former president Bill Clinton fooled around with, among other things, a tenor saxophone, politics and music are nonetheless strange bedfellows. But Danny Ross doesn’t care. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter, who just released his first album, “Introducing Danny Ross!” also works as a staffer for New York City Congressman Jerrold Nadler. “I run the office operations,”…
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