Rabbi Tames the Fox Man (Not Abe)
Rabbi Irwin Kula recently showed up on the O’Reilly Factor to discuss Tommy Thompson’s recent Jews-Sure-Do-Make-Lots-of-Money gaffe.
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Bush and Sharansky: Now They’ll Have Prague
Shortly after his reelection in 2004, President Bush met in the White House with Natan Sharansky and told reporters that if they wanted to understand his foreign policy they should read the Soviet dissident-turned-Israeli politician’s book “”The Case for Democracy.” The plummeting popularity of his foreign policy has apparently done nothing to harden Bush’s soft…
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Waxman and Ackerman on Olmert Flap: Time to Move On
Congressmen Henry Waxman and Gary Ackerman respond to Nathan Guttman’s story last week on Ehud Olmert and the Democrats…. Joint Statement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Rep. Gary L. Ackerman April 19,2007 As senior Jewish members of Congress, we would like to comment on Nathan Guttman’s article in the Forward, “Dems Warn Olmert About…
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Rockin’ Rabbi Raises Awareness
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are true and I am a member of standing / But I’m undercover as a singer/songwriter down here at the Sidewalk café.” This is the catchy chorus of Rav Shmuel’s new hit video and song, which is being passed around on YouTube like a hot falafel. The irony-filled…
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GOP Hopeful Praises Jewish Culture, Wallets
According to Republican presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson, making money is “part of the Jewish tradition” — not that there’s anything wrong with that. Thompson, a former governor of Wisconsin pursuing a long-shot bid for the White House, made the remark Monday during an address in Washington at the convention of the Religious Action Center of…
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Model Community In Russia Revolts Against Aid Agency
The tsarist capital of St. Petersburg has long been a model for the revival of Jewish life in Russia, but in recent weeks a growing number of Jewish leaders there have come forward to say that the community is being torn apart by the very American Jewish organization that helped build it up. The organization…
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Dems Warn Olmert About Playing Politics
Washington – Israeli officials and Democratic lawmakers are working to mend fences after the fallout between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi following Pelosi’s visit to Damascus. But Democrats are still angry about what they see as Olmert’s desperate attempts to align himself with President Bush even if it means wading into…
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Syrian Dissidents See Prospects Killed by Bloodbath in Iraq
Damascus — When Syrians head to the polls this week to elect a new parliament, Iraq will be on their minds — but not in the way that the Bush administration envisioned four years ago, when it held high hopes that toppling Saddam Hussein would set off a democratic domino effect that would unseat the…
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Rumors Abound as Israel Levels Secret Charges Against Arab Pol
Jerusalem – One of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial lawmakers is under investigation in a case that has caused a national uproar and may have driven him from the country — even as the nature of the charges against him remain a state secret. What is publicly known is that Azmi Bishara, the firebrand leader…
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Bush Babes Bring On the Bling
BUSH BEAUTIES BACK STRANG CANCER PREVENTION CENTER “Cancer is a wildfire… help stop it before it starts,” urged Dr. Richard Rivlin, director of the Ann Fisher Nutrition Center of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, at the center’s March 12 Garden of Hope Gala. Rivlin emphasized, “We are what we eat, and what we don’t eat.”…
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Judge: Evidence Will Be Public in Aipac Trial
Washington – The federal judge in the case of two pro-Israel advocates accused of passing classified documents has rejected the government’s efforts to keep much of the evidence out of the public view. Judge T.S. Ellis III of the U.S District Court in Alexandria, Va., ruled Monday that the government may not use special procedures…
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