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Lost in Translation: Ha’aretz Gives Obama a Bum Rap
Several months ago, Ha’aretz’ man in D.C., Shmuel Rosner, launched a Web feature titled “The Israel Factor.” It essentially amounts to a political beauty contest, with Rosner’s panel of experts determining which presidential hopefuls are the most pro-Israel. Barack Obama opened at the bottom, and remains way behind after several rounds of deliberations. Why? It’s…
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David Duke’s Selective Purim Denial
David Duke and Hillel both have Purim-themed messages pointing to this year’s celebration of the holiday as a time to worry about Iran. For Hillel, this means worrying that Ahmadinejad is another Haman. Your favorite former KKK Grand Wizard, on the other hand, insists that “extremist Jews” seek “a new Purim massacre” to be carried…
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Jewish Republicans Take Aim at Liberal Synagogue Movement
As Nathan Guttman reported several weeks ago, leaders of Reform Judaism are considering a plan to oppose President Bush’s surge plan and call for a phased withdrawal from Iraq. Now the Republican Jewish Coalition is working to derail the effort. It sent out an alert accusing leaders of Reform Judaism of attempting to “undermine U.S….
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More on Obama’s Impending Israel Speech
Check out Lynn Sweet’s preview of Senator Obama’s planned speech before the Aipac crowd in Chicago tomorrow.
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Call for Sudan Boycott Approved
Washington — The decision to launch a divestment campaign against Sudan has once again put the Jewish community at the forefront of the struggle against mass killing in Darfur. Delegates to the annual plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs — 10 national organizations, the synagogue movements and 122 local communities nationwide — passed…
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President Jefferson, Welcome to the Tribe
See why we’d be glad to have him.
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Hillary Has Oscar Envy
Al Gore’s global warming documentary wins an Academy Award and next thing you know Hillary is out with her big new energy video.
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Doug Feith Must be Fed Up…
The former Pentagon officials has launched his own Web site to defend his reputation from a long list of critics.
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Syrian Envoy Rips U.S. and Israel for Rejecting Overtures From Damascus
Washington — Bemoaning what he described as an Israeli lack of vision and the Bush administration’s ideological rigidity, the Syrian ambassador to the United States strongly criticized Washington and Jerusalem last week for rejecting repeated Syrian proposals to help stabilize the Middle East. “I must confess, we are extremely disappointed with the lack of response…
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Bloomberg: The Lieberman-Backed Homeland Security Bill Stinks
Did you hear the one about the Jewish Democrat posing as a Repubilcan who might one day become an independent critcizing the Jewish independent who was a Democrat and might one day become a Republican? Read this article.
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Who Knows Hodes?
In November, Paul Hodes was one of five freshman elected to the House of Representatives as part of the Democrats’ sweep. Since then? Not much to say, according to voters in his home state of New Hampshire. More than a third of Granite state voters did not know enough about him to say whether they…
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