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Out to Eat: A Restaurant Guide
Everyone has a kids-in-restaurants horror story. My friend Lily watched two grade schoolers methodically finger-painting with ketchup all over the walls and window of her local diner. My friend Idit watched two boys loudly playing catch with packets of jelly in front of the swinging doors to the kitchen. At a family-owned fish place in…
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Supreme Court Hobbles Taxpayer Church-State Suits
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to church-state watchdogs this morning with its ruling in the Hein v. Freedom From Religion Case. In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Alito, the Court ruled that the Freedom From Religion Foundation does not have the legal right to challenge the use of government funds by the White…
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House Republicans to Aipac: Don’t Take Our Vote Personally
Thursday’s House vote on the foreign operations bill provided Democrats with an opportunity in the latest round of the never-ending “who is better for Israel” debate. Having been bashed on this issue in the past, House Democrats now came up with a winning card. It all started with a memo distributed by the Republican leadership…
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Hamlisch Hits The Keys at ISEF Benefit
ISEF OFFERS ISRAELI YOUTH A CHANCE AT A FUTURE Marvin Hamlisch, guest artist at the May 14 International Sephardic Education Foundation benefit, told the black-tie crowd at New York’s Mandarin Oriental that as a graduate of the Juilliard School, he’d landed a job as rehearsal pianist for “Funny Girl,” which starred Barbra Streisand. This led…
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Union Boss: Bloomberg "Sure Sounded Like He Was Thinking About" Running
Those are the words of Joseph Hansen, the international president of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, who spoke with the Forward at a dinner put on by the Jewish Labor Committee in NYC last night. According to Hansen, Bloomberg met with top union leaders, including the Teamsters’ general president, James P. Hoffa,…
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Footlik v. Seals
It turns out that Jay Footlik, the former Clinton aide running for Congress in the 10th district of Illinois, will have a primary opponent. Dan Seals, who nearly upset U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk in last year’s election, announced today that he will run again. Meanwhile, Josh Kraushaar of the Politico has a post up about…
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Calls for Quick Aid To Embattled Fatah Eyed Cautiously by Israel Allies in D.C.
Washington – In the wake of this week’s tête-à-tête here between Ehud Olmert and George Bush, a high-stakes debate is shaping up in Washington over just how much American money should go to the troubled Palestinian leadership. During the visit, Olmert and Bush made a joint call for immediate American aid to bolster the new…
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Just Who Was Daniel Pearl?
Asra Nomani should have loved “A Mighty Heart,” the new feature film about journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder in Pakistan five years ago. Pearl’s onetime Wall Street Journal colleague was, after all, a consultant on the film and a central player in the story itself. It was her Karachi home that became the headquarters…
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U.N. Chief Shows Readiness To Side With Washington On Middle East
United Nations – When he was elected secretary general of the United Nations last fall, Ban Ki-moon struck veteran Middle East hands as having a rather limited grasp on the volatile region. But less than a year into office, the former foreign minister of South Korea has raised more than a few eyebrows at the…
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Talk of British Boycott Silences Voice of Scientific Cooperation
For the better part of four decades, theoretical physicists Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg proved that science can bridge cultural divides. When they won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1979, their children danced together in Stockholm, and the Pakistani Muslim and the American Jew stayed friends until Salam’s death in 1996. It was only…
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Quebec Jews Rethink Traditional Ties to Province’s Liberal Party
Montreal – The 90,000-strong Montreal Jewish community, long a dependable source of votes and cash for Quebec’s ruling Liberal Party, is suddenly putting its political allegiance up for grabs. A dozen of the community’s major political fundraisers, unhappy with Liberal Premier Jean Charest over a host of issues large and small, recently had dinner with…
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