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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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A Shabbos Iraq Vote!?! What Will Joe Do?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has reportedly set a cloture vote for Saturday on the debate over President Bush’s Iraq policy.
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Attention All Vulnerable Dems, Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Your Back
The Democrats already putting the GOP on notice that they’re not taking anything for granted in 2008: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida will head the campaign to protect the party’s vulnerable members in the next elections, according to this press release sent out yesterday by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Wasserman is chairing the…
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Obama: Looking for a Jewish Groove
James Besser reports this week that Barack Obama is stepping up his Jewish push. Obama might end up delivering a major address later this month at the plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and has tapped Dan Shapiro, a former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration, to work on Middle East…
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Abu Mazen Losing a Friend in Congress
In another sign that the Hamas-Fatah unity deal is not going over well in Congress, Rep. Gary Ackerman, chair of the Middle East subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, says he no longer supports U.S. aid to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmound Abbas (aka Abu Mazen). Check out his speech at a meeting Wednesday…
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Jerz GOPers for Guiliani
As big states like New York, California, New Jersey and Florida consider moving their primaries up to February 5 or even earlier, pundits are predicting that such moves would give a boost to the field’s best known contenders in general, and to New Yorkers Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in particular. At this very early…
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