Should the U.S. Shun Abbas?
Depending on how you read it, a letter being promoted by AIPAC calls for the U.S. to cut ties to all members of the P.A., including moderates who favor a deal with Israel.
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Cheney: Take My War, Please…
The vice president’s opening line in his speech today to Aipac delegates: “Thank you very much. Karl Rove finds out about this, he won’t let me out again.”
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Peace Now: Too Much Ahmadinejad on the Brain
About 6,000 pro-Israel activists are in D.C. this week for the annual AIPAC policy conference. Among other things, they’re pushing for tougher sanctions against Iran. At the same time, the dovish Americans for Peace Now is out with a new statement calling for engagement with Tehran. The contrast to the typical line from AIPAC activists…
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Aipac Urges U.S. To End Contacts With Palestinian Authority
Thousands of pro-Israel activists in Washington this week are expected to urge lawmakers to sign a letter to the Bush administration calling for an end to all American contacts with members of the Palestinian Authority. Observers who favor a more intense American role in the peace process are criticizing the letter — which is being…
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’Do It Yourself
Daniele Sullivan has made a career out of creating wigs, but even she confesses that up close she can’t tell a lace front creation from a real head of hair. So that’s what she teaches her classes. Sullivan, an Orthodox Parisian who moved to Israel two years ago with her husband and their 10 children…
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Knowing When The Fight Begins
PETE HAMILL PRAISES LATE, GREAT NEW YORK CITY CHAMPION MOYNIHAN “As a writer [Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan] did not need rented fingers to shape a major speech. He wrote it himself,” stated author and journalist Pete Hamill at the February 5 Citizens for NYC New Yorker for New York Awards Gala, held at The Waldorf-Astoria….
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Barack Obama Steps Up Bid for Jewish Backing
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama stepped up his outreach to potential Jewish backers this week, with an address to pro-Israel supporters in Chicago and the announcement of a fundraising push in South Florida. Speaking at a policy forum held by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Chicago on March 2, the Illinois senator delivered…
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Defense for Aipac Duo Says Groups Refuse To Testify
Washington – Several Jewish organizations are refusing to cooperate with the defense in the case against two men accused of passing classified information while working for the main pro-Israel lobby. According to sources close to the defense team, three major Jewish organizations are telling their employees not to testify on behalf of Steve Rosen and…
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Ex-Pentagon Official Unveils Cyber Weapon In Fight To Restore Reputation: DougFeith.com
A prominent former Pentagon official and advocate of the Iraq War has launched a Web site to rebut the waves of criticism leveled against him for several years. Douglas Feith, who was under secretary of defense for policy until July 2005, is offering a spirited defense against allegations that, during the buildup to the American…
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West Coast Seminary Opens Doors to Gays
In the wake of Conservative Judaism’s historic vote to permit the ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis, the movement’s West Coast seminary has accepted its first openly gay students. Two gay applicants — one man, one woman — have been accepted for the fall by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of…
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‘No Donuts, No Peace,’ Cry Kosher Protesters
What does it take to spark a Jewish protest movement? Sometimes nothing more than a good cup of joe and a doughnut. Over the past month, Dunkin’ Donuts has faced a wave of protest after news got out that a Washington-area franchise was being pushed by its corporate parents to serve the company’s bacon-heavy sandwiches…
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