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Yid.Dish: So strange, it might just be good
The evil mad scientists at evilmadscientist.com created a faux tiramasu recipe for Passover, called Tiramatzah. They swear that matzah + coffee + mascarpone = “without doubt, the best tiramasu I’ve ever made.” Will some brave soul please make this before Passover ends, and let us know how it tastes? Recipe copied below: Tiramatzah is a…
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California Campuses Gain a Reputation as Hotbeds of Anti-Israel Rhetoric
The lecture topic was “The Threat to Israel’s Existence.” The speaker was Daniel Pipes, a Middle East analyst known for his hawkish pro-Israel views and sharp denunciations of Islamic extremism. The setting was the University of California, Irvine, a campus with a national reputation as a hotbed of anti-Israel rhetoric. Students wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs clustered…
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Ellison In Israel
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has a story up about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the Middle East. The article includes a conversation with Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress. “I can get behind a foreign policy based on diplomacy and negotiation,” Ellison reportedly told JTA. “Nancy Pelosi…
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Don’t Discount a Fox
Defying Senate Democrats, President Bush gave a recess appointment yesterday to major Republican donor Sam Fox, a St. Louis businessman who recently stepped down as head of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Fox, who was appointed as ambassador to Belgium, had come under fire for contributing to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Senate Foreign Relations…
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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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