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Women’s Groups Split Over Texas Governor’s Vaccination Plan
In a surprise move, certain pro-choice women’s organizations — including the largest Jewish one — are joining Christian conservatives in criticizing the governor of Texas for requiring sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease. Governor Rick Perry, who is generally seen as a staunch ally of the Christian right, last week…
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Marty Peretz Has Found a New Reason to Pick on George Soros
We’ve already noted Marty Peretz’s obsession with George Soros. Now the New Republic big cheese has broken new ground in Soros-bashing: blaming the billionaire financier for airline mishaps. Really, though, our main gripe with Peretz has nothing to do with Soros, and everything to do with the TNR chief’s calling our deputy Web editor “Arthur.”…
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Speaking of Florida … McCain is Also Heading South
McCain will be stumping in Vero Beach on Monday. Here’s the information in a press advisory from the campaign: VERO BEACH, FLORIDA WHO: Senator John McCain WHAT: Media Availability WHEN: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 5:10 p.m. EST Press Set Up Time: 4:50 p.m. EST WHERE: The Community Church of Vero Beach Fellowship Hall 1901…
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Cult Readopts Swastika The Raelian movement, an atheistic cult making the claim that humans were created by aliens, has reverted to its original symbol: a swastika inside a Star of David. The movement, established by former French racing-car driver Claude Vorhilon, says its swastikas are an ancient symbol of peace. The group stopped using the…
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‘Kangaroo Congressional Hearing’
That’s the title of M.J. Rosenberg’s dispatch on the meeting Wednesday of the House’s Middle East subcommittee, which dealt with the Israeli-Paesltinian conflict and featured a great deal of criticism of the recent Hamas-Fatah unity government deal. We have a story about the hearing that should be up soon. For now, read Rosenberg’s critique.
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Romney Pushes Hard in the Sunshine State
With help from Jeb Bush, former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is gunning for support in Florida, which is considering moving its primary to February 5 or even late January.
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Franken Franken Franken
Franken’s hitting the road in Minnesota, and we’re hitting a few fun internet links: Franken’s family background. Franken’s Air America heir. Franken’s number one issue. Franken’s big mug on his campaign site.
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Window Shopping
Finding the right synagogue can be a tiresome task for even the most devout of Jews. Every synagogue — be it Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or Reconstructionist — has a style, a tone and a rabbi all its own. Paying personal visits to each establishment to determine where you fit could take months or even years….
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Virtual Sanctuary
Temple Beth Israel is truly a global synagogue. Its members come from all over the world — from the Netherlands, Israel, Brazil and Germany, to name just a few countries. On Fridays, Temple Beth Israel is so popular that it holds five candle-lighting ceremonies. Then again, Temple Beth Israel isn’t exactly a traditional synagogue, at…
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Weaned on a Pickle?
And these are the rules that you shall set before them. (Exodus 21:1) The ghosts of two gentlemen walk together through an olive grove near the Temple. One, Hillel, takes a deep breath of the fresh air and smiles for that reason, or for no reason at all. The other, Shammai, walks with hunched shoulders,…
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Uri Dan’s Famous Phrase
I srael, as you may have heard, has a new justice minister, law professor Daniel Friedmann, who has replaced acting justice minister Tzipi Livni, who replaced former justice minister Haim Ramon, who was just convicted by a Jerusalem court of an “obscene act” for kissing a young female soldier against her will. Ramon had charged…
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