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Inside Noah’s Ark
Two by two they’ve come, birds and beasts and lizards of every imaginable kind, to board the gigantic wooden ark now docked inside Los Angeles’s Skirball Cultural Center. There’s the rooster wrought of shiny red cowboy boots; the kiwi crafted from a boxing glove; the alligator melded from a car tire and a violin case,…
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Giuliani Flexes His Israel Muscles
With a one-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday. As we covered back in January, the former New York City mayor is duking it out with Arizona Senator John McCain for Jewish donors. Looks like he shouldn’t count on the support of the Jewish Firefighters’ Union.
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Specter Shmoozes in NYC Tomorrow
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania will be hosted at a breakfast tomorrow by pro-Israel powerhouse NORPAC. The event is early – 7:30 a.m. at the Regency Hotel – but well worth it: It’s a good change to suss out how pro-Israel politicos are feeling about their respective candidates of choice – Norpac co-chair Dr. Ben…
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A New Rahm?
Jay Footlik announced he is running for Congress against Republican incumbent Mark Kirk in the 10th district on Illinois. A Special Assistant in the Clinton White House, Footlik served as the president’s liaison to the American Jewish community. In 2004, he served in the Lieberman campaign and then as an advisor to Kerry/Edwards. Footlik would…
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Yivo Honors Kati Marton
YIVO HONORS A LITERARY DIPLOMATIC DUO “Thank God for YIVO” declared Kati Marton, who, along with her husband, Richard Holbrooke, was honored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at its May 9 benefit, held at the Center for Jewish History. A journalist, author and human rights advocate, Marton mused about the Hungarians she profiles…
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Congress Warned That Global Warming Is Threat to Israel and Moderate Arab States
Washington — Proponents of tough legislation against greenhouse gas emissions are seizing on a new argument in their attempts to talk lawmakers into taking action: the threat that global warming will lead to instability in the Middle East and endanger Israel’s security. In a series of briefings last week on Capitol Hill and with Jewish…
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GOP Slams Effort To Study WWII Internment Camps in U.S.
A plan to study the treatment of Europeans interned by the United States government during World War II is languishing in the Senate following unexpectedly strong opposition from GOP lawmakers. A narrow majority of Republican senators, led by Jeff Sessions of Alabama, rejected a proposal to form a congressional commission examining the wartime experiences of…
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WJC Looks to Cosmetics Heir for Image Makeover
Bigwigs from six continents gathered in New York last weekend to elect Ronald Lauder the new president of the World Jewish Congress. The vote took place Sunday in midtown Manhattan, just above the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and brought together an unusual collection of top representatives from most of the largest Jewish communities in the…
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Messianic Jews Find Fertile Ground in the Bible Belt
Oxford, N.C. — Ellen and Tim Pitts say they aren’t the kind of Jews who go around preaching about Jesus Christ. Although they are self-described “messianic Jews” — the term of art preferred by those who accept Christian theology and assert a Jewish identity — the couple, who live with their three young children in…
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Burg’s Comments in Interview Make Waves
A stalwart of Zionism caused an ideological earthquake last week when he stated that defining the State of Israel as Jewish is the key to its end. In an interview published in Ha’aretz, Avraham Burg, a former head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a former Knesset speaker, argued that Israeli society has elements…
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Israel Drawn Into Debate on Missile Defense
Washington — Israel is being drawn by the United States into Washington’s dispute with Russia over the deployment of missile-defense systems in Europe. In attempts to make the case for placing missile interceptors and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, American officials have argued that the initiative would improve Israel’s security and help…
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