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Will McKinney Attempt a Green Comeback?
The former Georgia Democratic representative considers a switch to the Green Party …
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Dressed To Impress
One look at Isacco Azra, and it’s pretty obvious that he’s a more than suitable public relations man for his single-label clothing shop, Eredi Pisanò. With a relatively fluent command of English, the Italian businessman clearly loves his label’s high-end men’s clothing. Showing a reporter around his store on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue, he excitedly folds…
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Growing Pains: Lit for Tweens
We Are SO Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah! By Fiona Rosenbloom Hyperion Books for Children, 224 pages, $15.99. When Stacy Friedman and her best friend, Lydia, return from camp to find that their formerly tubby other best bud, Kelly, has morphed into a cool, thin, beautiful blonde over summer break, they couldn’t be happier for her…
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Law & Order: Israel
Fred Thompson says it’s time to let Israel take care of business.
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In Praise of Small Schools
I have written so many letters lately, it is as though I have become a neurasthenic Victorian shut-in. I should be wearing a bed-jacket. Ordinarily I correspond in all-lowercase spews of e-mail strewn with run-on sentences; I am slightly too old to use “l8r” in closing, but only slightly. So when I get involved in…
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Dovish Groups Mull Mega-Merger In Bid To Build Peace Powerhouse
Washington — Merger talks are heating up among three leading dovish Israel advocacy groups in a development that proponents hope will produce a new mega-organization with greater political clout and more money to push for a two-state solution. Leaders of Americans for Peace Now, the Israel Policy Forum and Brit Tzedek v’Shalom are weighing the…
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Amid Rockets and Civil War in Gaza, Israelis Sour on Peace Prospects
Amman, Jordan – Israeli leaders are now scrambling for a strategy to deal with the potential civil war erupting in the Palestinian territories and Hamas rocket attacks on the southern town of Sderot. But even before the latest round of violence, Israeli public opinion was souring on the land-for-peace formula, with Israelis concluding that the…
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Just Say ‘No’: O.U. Pushes Abstinence, Pans Condoms
Borrowing a page from Christian conservatives, the country’s largest Orthodox Jewish organization has launched an “abstinence” Web site warning teenagers of the physical and psychological dangers of premarital sexual activity, and challenging the effectiveness of various forms of contraception. The National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the youth department of the Orthodox Union, recently unveiled what…
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America’s Muslims Get a Survey of Their Own
The Jewish and Muslim communities share many characteristics as minority religious groups in America — but until this week, American Muslims have had nothing like the Jewish population surveys that have documented the size and shape of the Jewish community for the past 40 years. That changed Tuesday when the Pew Research Center released what…
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Church-State Crusader Takes Aim at ROTC
In the latest battle in his war against proselytizing in the ranks of America’s military, Air Force veteran and church-state separation activist Mikey Weinstein is taking aim at the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Weinstein, who sued the Air Force in 2005 for religious coercion, is calling attention to a passage in the Junior ROTC’s curriculum…
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With Islamic Militancy Rising, Syria’s Baath Regime Finds Religion
Damascus – While Israel and America rank high on the list of Syria’s enemies, it is the rising tide of militant Islam within the country that ultimately might pose the greatest challenge to the staunchly secular, Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad. For decades, the Assad family and other members of the Alawite minority —…
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