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Franken Gets Primary Foe
Trial lawyer Mike Ciresi has jumped into the Senate race in Minnesota.
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Al Franken: Laughing for Dollars
Franken: Norm Coleman has “Big Tobacco” and “Big Oil,” I have “Big Comedy.” See report on how Tom Hanks, Larry David, Jason Alexander, and other funny men come through for their buddy in Minnesota.
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The Tommy Thompson Backlash
The former Wisconsin governor is already feeling the heat over his comments on Monday to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Check out these editorials in the Appletton Post-Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Israeli Lecturer Killed Shielding Virginia Tech Students
An Israeli lecturer killed in Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech saved the lives of several students by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman. Students of Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering and mathematics lecturer at Virginia Tech for 20 years, sent e-mails to his wife that told of how he blocked the…
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Tommy Thompson: "Earning Money" Is "Part of the Jewish Tradition"
Tommy Thompson – a former governor of Wisconsin and potential Republican presidential contender in 2008 – made a damaging verbal gaffe while addressing Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center earlier today. “I’m sort of a reform public servant, 38 years in the government,” said Thompson, according to a transcript provided to the Forward by the Religious…
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Controversial Envoy to Belgium Vows More Campaign Giving
Sam Fox, President Bush’s controversial recess appointment as ambassador to Belgium, is vowing to continue donating to political candidates during his time in Brussels while forgoing contributions to 527s, the campaign vehicle that sparked the recent political firestorm that derailed his Senate confirmation. The decision to remain involved in the 2008 campaign on any level…
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Detente Is the Talk of Town In Damascus
Damascus — While Republicans and Democrats in Washington trade blows over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria last week, officials and pundits in this ancient capital describe the political feuding as a distraction from a more important truth. From their viewpoint, Pelosi’s visit was not a freelance bid for American-Syrian thaw but rather the…
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Swaths of Color at Brain Trauma Gala
MAHARAJA TURNS HEADS AT BRAIN INJURY GALA TO AID VICTIMS WORLDWIDE It was glitz, pageantry and royalty in service of lifesaving at the March 7 Royal Rajasthan Gala to benefit the Brain Trauma Foundation. With sitar players and drummers providing background music, the event’s general chairman, His Highness Maharaja Gajsingh II of Marwar-Jodhpur, in a…
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Billionaire Boychiks Battle for Media Empire
When Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate mogul and soon-to-be media magnate, was a junior counselor at a Jewish summer camp, he regularly transfixed his campers with tales of his family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Poland. The Zell family traveled through Russia and Japan, pretending to be tourists at the Bolshoi Ballet so as not to…
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‘Bell Curve’ Scribe Mulls Roots of Jews’ Brainpower
One of the most controversial and influential public intellectuals in American life is weighing in with a new theory on the roots of Jewish intelligence. Charles Murray, famous for “The Bell Curve,” his book on the racial basis of intelligence, has published an article in this month’s Commentary, titled “Jewish Genius.” In the essay, Murray…
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For Many Palestinians, Right of Return Is Primarily Theoretical
Hussein Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan – With spiky hair propped up by loads of gel, and a goatee with shaved vertical strips, Khaled Jamal would make a hip hair stylist in any Western metropolis. But Jamal, 22, is a Palestinian refugee, born in Amman to a family from Jaffa and Kafr ’Ana. His life centers…
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