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British Pol Reaches Out on Climate Change
In a further indication of its willingness to challenge the Bush administration on its home turf, the British government of Tony Blair is pushing its advocacy to combat global warming by reaching out to state and local authorities, the business community and even religious groups in America. While Blair has stuck with the White House…
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Vitriol Proliferates on Jewish Blogs
When Richard Silverstein, a liberal Jewish blogger, claimed credit for shutting down an extremist right-wing Web site that listed the names of thousands of left-wing Jewish activists, the cyber-retribution was swift and harsh. Days after his blog posting went up in late March, Silverstein received an e-mail directing him to a defamatory Web site purporting…
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Singer Ends Career at Claims Conference
In a move that will likely end one of the most high-powered careers in the Jewish communal world, Rabbi Israel Singer announced this week that he would step down from his post at the top of the world’s leading Holocaust restitution body, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The Claims Conference announced Tuesday…
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Hollywood Goes Hillary
According to the Nation which blogged about her $1.1 million swing-through last week.
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Excessive Pride
When I was in the fourth grade, my Brooklyn yeshiva held a Torah fair. My partner — a girl whom I fancied a close friend but who was to move to California two years later, never to be heard from again — and I quickly decided on a parsha that had fascinated us since we’d…
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Notes on Camp
My little girl is starting “real” day camp this summer. Last summer she went to the 14th Street Y for part of the summer, and to Central Park’s Zoo Camp for a week. (I particularly enjoyed her telling me after a day at Zoo Camp, “Boy peacocks have big fancy tails so they can wave…
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Malibu Bubbe: The Real Gidget
Before the Beach Boys, before Frankie and Annette, there was Gidget
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WJC Hopes Lauder Election Will End Scandals
With the election of Ronald Lauder as its interim president, the World Jewish Congress is hoping to put aside years of turmoil from political infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement. Lauder, the president of the Jewish National Fund, defeated Mendel Kaplan, 59-17, in a vote Sunday of the organization’s board of governors. Earlier in the…
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Steve Cohen Gets Set for Racially Charged Rematch
His chief opponent from 2006’s race, Nikki Tinker, just filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC, the Hill reports.
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Al Franken’s New BFF: Amy Klobuchar
Al Franken — or whoever becomes the eventual Democratic nominee for Senate in Minnesota — will likely want a helping hand from freshman Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who just won a coveted leadership spot in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Meanwhile, that Democratic field just gained one more candidate — tax lawyer Bob Olsen.
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Power Couples Offer Advice
HOW POWER COUPLES JUGGLE WEALTH, FAMILY LIFE AND YIDDISHKEIT “Wisdom from the wealthy” would be an apt description of the 92nd Street Y’s May 8 sold-out lecture, “Power Couples: How They Live and Work.” Moderated by TV journalist-cum-diplomatic inquisitor Lynn Sherr, it put on the marital hot seat Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Daryl and Steve…
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