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Saudis Push Bush Team On Peace Plan
Washington – Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to make its peace initiative — based on a quick Israeli return to the 1967 borders and prompt establishment of a Palestinian state — a key plank in American foreign policy. According to American and Arab diplomatic sources in Washington, the Saudis have been pressing for a…
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Arab Cabinet Pick Stirs ‘Zionism-Racism’ Debate
Jerusalem – When Knesset member Esterina Tartman opened her mouth on Israel Radio last week to attack the Labor Party for naming Israel’s first-ever Muslim Arab Cabinet minister, she did more than just rattle Ehud Olmert’s shaky coalition. She opened up a raging national debate on the taboo topic of where Zionism ends and racism…
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The Secret Behind a Rocker’s Election to Congress: Hasidim
Rep. John Hall has plenty of supporters to thank for his transformation from rocker to congressman. But his most important — and seemingly most unlikely — backer may have been Abraham Wieder, mayor of Kiryas Joel, an insular Hasidic enclave in New York’s Orange County. Hall first gained a degree of fame as a founding…
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Pa. Lawmaker Short-circuits GOP Grab
In some ways, Pennsylvania State Rep. Joshua Shapiro, 33, had a low-key New Year’s Eve. Married, with children ages 1 and 5, he did the “lame parents” thing with his wife: Chinese food, kids to bed early, hanging out in front of the TV. Then, before midnight, Shapiro — a moderate, second-term Democrat who took…
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Carter To Speak at Brandeis
Pro-Israel activists are gearing up for a showdown with Jimmy Carter next week at Brandeis University, where the former president will field questions on his controversial new book on Israel. The visit, scheduled for January 23, was recently announced after weeks of contention between Carter and university officials, who previously proposed that he appear in…
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Campus Coalition Split Over Progressive Union
As members of a coalition of pro-Israel organizations debate whether to oust a dovish Zionist student group accused of bringing Israel-bashers to American campuses, at least one national Jewish organization has already pulled out of the coalition in protest of the dovish group’s activities. The American Jewish Congress recently tendered its resignation from the Israel…
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Groups Head to Emirates, as Worries Grow Over Iran
The main umbrella group of American Jewish organizations is set to visit Dubai and Abu Dhabi next month in a sign of the growing concern among Sunni regimes over Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions. The trip, by a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to the main power centers of…
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Heart Attack Ends N.J. Homeless Woman’s Free Fall
Montclair, N.J. – Nights were uncertain for Carol “Hannah” Brenner. She slept on benches, on the grass, at the Salvation Army shelter, sitting up in an all-night copy shop. On a good night she might have had an overhang to protect her from the elements. A bad night brought danger and worse. One particular morning…
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Grandma, 106, Had Hundreds Of Descendants
Maryasha Garelik, a Lubavitcher Hasid who survived pogroms, Soviet persecution and the Nazi killing machine, died in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights last Wednesday. The progenitor of more than 560 direct descendants, she was 106. Garelik, who was known in her community as Bubbe Maryasha, was born in tsarist Russia. Her father and her…
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Journal Inks Tikkun Exiles
Just a few weeks after their departure from Michael Lerner’s Tikkun magazine, the bimonthly’s two former top editors have signed on to work for a relative newcomer in the field, the independent Jewish journal Zeek. The announcement came this week from Zeek editor in chief and co-founder Jay Michaelson, a regular contributor to the Forward….
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Laughs Online
How many Jews does it take to produce an Arab American and Muslim American comedy show? Only one, provided that the Jew in question is Mel Brooks’s son. From the folks who brought you “Springtime for Hitler” (well, folks descended from those folks, anyway) comes a new Web broadcast on Comedy Central’s Web site (www.comedycentral.com),…
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