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Olmert Aides Say Pelosi Botched Message to Assad
Jerusalem — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew public objections from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week, after she reportedly relayed a message to Damascus that Jerusalem was ready to open peace talks with Syria. Pelosi was reported to have delivered the message Wednesday during her meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,…
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Is Your Pharmacist Judging You?
The New York Civil Liberties Union has a release out this morning about a complaint the group is filing today on behalf of a health care provider at Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson. The NYCLU is charging that a Rite Aid pharmacist who refused to fill a patient’s prescription for refill doses of Emergency Contraception should…
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Pelosi Goes to Syria
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is meeting with President Bashar al-Assad in Syria today, a move that has raised the ire of the Bush administration. Interesting for Forward readers, Pelosi’s delegation includes representatives Tom Lantos and Henry Waxman of California, as well as Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota.
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Happy Passover from Bush and Clinton
As Jews across the country prepare to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt, here are a couple of goodwill messages, from the Commander in Chief and New York’s junior senator: From President Bush: Passover, 5767 This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout…
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DeLay: Too Many Voters Ruins the Senate
In his Monday column, Paul Krugman argues that today’s Republican Party is dedicated to a strategy of disenfranchising poor voters in order to protect the gains of the ultra-wealthy. Wonder what Krugman would make of this plank contained in Tom DeLay’s political manifesto: “Senators should again be elected by state legislatures, as they were until…
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Olmert Talks Up Peace, as Domestic and International Pressure Mount
Jerusalem — Facing mounting pressure from international powers and from members of his own party, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is warming publicly to the Saudi peace initiative, going so far as to call on Arab leaders to meet with him so that a regional peace plan can be discussed. Israel initially shunned the plan…
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Money Money Money
First quarter fundraising numbers are coming in, and things look good for Senator Hillary Clinton.
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Cops Grill Top Olmert Ally On Auschwitz ‘March’ Funds
Jerusalem – Israel’s finance minister, Avraham Hirchson, was interrogated by police for eight hours straight this week about the apparent transfer of more than $1 million to his personal accounts from a labor union he once ran, and of another sum, which is undisclosed, from the March of the Living, the international Holocaust education program…
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Conservative Judaism’s Flagship Seminary Opens Door to Gays and Lesbians
Ending nearly two decades of debate, the flagship seminary of Conservative Judaism announced this week that it would now accept gay and lesbian students into its rabbinical and cantorial schools. But a subsequent declaration from the movement’s Israeli seminary upholding the ban on gay rabbinical students made clear that the issue was far from settled…
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‘Apartheid’ Book Exposes Carter-Clinton Rift
For months, the controversy over former president Jimmy Carter’s book has generally been fueled by bitter criticism from the Jewish community. In recent weeks, however, the debate has shown signs of evolving into a personal clash between the country’s last two Democratic presidents. Earlier this month, former president Bill Clinton spoke out against Carter’s book,…
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Secret Briefing by Zinni Seen as Key In Aipac Duo Trial
Washington – New details are emerging about a secret 2003 briefing that could play a key role in the defense of two pro-Israel advocates charged with passing classified information. Until now, the identities of the participants were not publicly known, except for one of the defendants, Steve Rosen, then policy director of the American Israel…
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