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Israeli Judge Moshe Bejski, 86
Moshe Bejski, a former Israeli Supreme Court justice and Holocaust survivor who was saved from the Nazis by Oskar Schindler, died Tuesday at the age of 86. Bejski was born in 1920 in the Polish town of Dzialoszyce, near Krakow. After the Nazis invaded Poland, Bejski’s family was deported to the Belzec concentration camp. He…
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Cheney Slated for Aipac Confab
Less than a week after his former chief of staff was convicted on four counts of perjury, Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to address the most important annual conference of pro-Israel activists. This marks the second year in a row that the vice president will speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s benchmark…
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GOPers Seek To Derail Reform Shuls’ Iraq Pullout Resolution
Jewish Republicans are mounting a campaign to derail a resolution, proposed by leaders of the country’s largest synagogue movement, opposing President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq and calling for a timetable for an American withdrawal. The Reform movement’s 80-person executive committee has slated the resolution for consideration at its March 12 meeting. Last week, in…
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Sports Team Owner Pledges $75 Million to Hadassah
A Detroit businessman and professional sports team owner has pledged $75 million to help build a new hospital tower in Jerusalem. The gift, from glass magnate Bill Davidson, is believed to be the second largest ever devoted to a Jewish cause. Last year, fertilizer executive Ronald Stanton pledged $100 million to Yeshiva University. Davidson’s donation…
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Le Veau d’Or
When I was a boy, I was on Moses’ team, which stands to reason. Clearly, our teacher and the rabbi were on his side, too, and my classmates and I were not only distressed but also puzzled that the Jews should set up a golden calf and worship it, just at the time when Moses…
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Yid, Our Epithet
The New York City Council resolution calling on New Yorkers to stop using the word “nigger” has its comical side, as observers have noted, not only because people do not choose the words they use on the basis of city council resolutions, but because the use of “nigger” is most widespread in the United States…
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So Does Newt Think Libby Got What He Deserved?
Newt Gingrich: “[Y]ou cannot accept felonies and you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials].” So the man that many conservatives would like to see run for president actually thinks Lewis Libby got what he deserved? Actually, Gingrich was talking about Clinton. Now that he might run for president, Newt is trying to explain how…
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Lamm Joins Weinstein’s Crusade
Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm will join the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the group leading the charge against evangelization at the U.S. Air Force Academy, according to an announcement released by the group this week. Here it is: Mikey Weinstein, MRFF’s president and founder, announced this week that Richard D. Lamm,…
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Chuck Hagel: Anti-War Candidate of the Right?
Check out this piece in Esquire.
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Should Obama Watch Out for Emily?
As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton begins a push for support from women voters, it is worth asking if one of her major feminist allies, the Washington PAC Emily’s List, plans to take off the gloves against Clinton’s chief Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama. During the 2006 campaign, Emily’s List came under criticism from some liberal…
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Rep Cohen: U.S. Needs Official Apology for Slavery, Segregation
A recent Politico post outlines separate efforts by Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback to get official apologies from the U.S. government for crimes committed against African-Americans and Native Americans, respectively. Cohen’s efforts are interesting given the tough racial politics he faced during his 2006 campaign, when he beat out several black…
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