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The 2008 Money-Train
Second quarter fundraising results are in, including for the Jewish freshmen in the House. Here’s the quick summary of year-to-date fundraising totals; Ron Klein: $1.3 million Gabrielle Giffords: $908,494 John Yarmuth: $600,000 Paul Hodes: $550,000 Steve Kagen: $420,000 Steve Cohen: $137,000 While Klein, Giffords, Yarmuth, Hodes and Kagen are part of the DCCC’s Frontline program…
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Happy Birthday B Rapoport!
It’s not every day that someone hits the big 9-0, and when the said person is one of the highest rolling (and most loved) Democratic donors, the pols turn out in droves. Bernard Rapoport, a nice Jewish boy from Waco, Texas who grew up to earn a fortune in the insurance business, was feted at…
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Giuliani Stacks Campaign Staff With a Who’s Who Of Mideast Hawks
As the roster of Republican presidential hopefuls grapples with the seeming implosion of one-time front-runner John McCain’s candidacy, Rudolph Giuliani is taking steps to claim his place as the field’s leading hawk. The former New York City mayor announced last week that he had assembled a team of foreign policy advisers featuring several prominent neoconservatives,…
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In Jerusalem, Where Many Tongues Cleave
Jerusalem – Journalists, like crewmembers on the Starship Enterprise, are not supposed to participate in the events they’re observing. Still, when you’re invited to an international gathering in Jerusalem with an imposing title like the Conference on the Future of the Jewish People, it’s hard to say no. Confused, I phoned a friend who edits…
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New Aid for Palestinians Called a Mirage
Washington – President Bush trumpeted a new aid package for the Palestinians on Monday, but congressional sources and aid groups say that Bush’s proposal is actually just a shifting around of existing funds that will provide almost no new help on the ground. In a broad-ranging speech Monday about the Palestinian situation, Bush promised to…
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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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