Chuck Hagel: Anti-War Candidate of the Right?
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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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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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Obama’s Pre-Shabbos Call to His Pastor
The New York Times has an article about Senator Obama’s last-second decision not to have his spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, deliver the invocation at the launch of his presidential announcement…. “Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,”…
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The Chelsea Butterfly Effect
When I was wide-eyed and dewy, I lived in a ramshackle apartment building on West 22nd Street. Chelsea was just becoming Chelsea. There was Big Cup, the psychedelically painted coffee shop full of tasty gay boys and Rice Krispies Treats. There was the fabulous Salvation Army thrift store on Eighth Avenue. There was the scary,…
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Why Bloggers Can’t Let Go of Joe…
The Hartford Courant wants to know.
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Is Senator Inhofe Proud of Being Called a Holocaust Denier?
The Washington Post has a great run-down of the Conservative Political Action Conference, held last Friday. One particularly interesting tidbit: “Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) got the crowd cheering early in the day. “I have been called – my kids are all aware of this – dumb, crazy man, science abuser, Holocaust denier, villain of the…
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Books Writing the Book on Klezmer
In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I’m personally indebted to Yale Strom. I keep a hardcover copy of his reference work “The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore” (Chicago Review Press, 2002) on the bookshelf that rings the ceiling in my apartment. Whenever I need to check a…
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Books Hasidic Authors Offer Readers a Thrill
The Internet contains scores of Hasidic-dominated Yiddish sites, including chat rooms, blogs, bulletin boards and a separate version of Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia. Reading one of the Yiddish bulletin boards, I came across the following dismissive comments of an anonymous critic: “Give a look and you’ll see that nowadays all [ultra-Orthodox] Yiddish newspapers and…
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Mamaloshn: Why the Gay Connection?
On a chilly Monday evening in January, Yugntruf, a New York-based not-for-profit designed to promote Yiddish, assembled a panel to address the question “What Attracts Us to Yiddish?” Mostly in Yiddish, but with occasional forays into English for the benefit of the uninitiated, the evening’s seven panelists gamely tackled the question with a range of…
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