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Quartet Stands Firm on Sanctions Against the P.A.
Washington – As Palestinian leaders left this week for Saudi-brokered talks aimed at reconciling the Fatah and Hamas factions, the Bush administration was sending a tough message, making clear that a Palestinian national unity government will not necessarily pave the way to international recognition. Stepping up its own involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the administration…
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Report Funded by U.S. Group Triggers Debate Over Arab Autonomy
Washington – The fierce debate over a report calling for greater autonomy for Israel’s Arab population and questioning the Jewish character of the state is spilling over to the American Jewish community. The report, titled “Future Vision,” was issued by Israel’s National Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities. Funding came from the New…
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Left-wing Critics of Israel Launch Blog To Combat Alleged Intimidation
In the wake of an increasing flurry of attacks leveled against left-wing Jewish groups by their right-wing counterparts, one dovish group is fighting back. Jewish Voice for Peace, a San Francisco-based organization, recently launched a blog to track what it describes as a growing epidemic of intimidation and harassment from fellow Jews seeking to stifle…
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Longtime Leader Breaks Glass Ceiling at Reform Seminary
In the late 1980s, Barbara Benioff Friedman sat in a meeting of the UJA-Federation of New York’s distribution committee and was appalled by what she heard: During a heated debate over which summer camps the charity should fund, a Reform Jewish woman stood up and argued that it was Orthodox camps that merited the dollars,…
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New Study Affirms Jewish Population Above 6 Million
A study that posits itself as the new authority on Jewish demographic data says that the American Jewish population is between 6 million and 6.4 million, and potentially as high as 7.5 million. The new figures are the latest and most powerful refutation of the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey, which found a Jewish population…
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Summers’s Successor
Is Harvard’s first female president, Drew Gilpin Faust. You know what they say – as goes Harvard, so goes America. Anyone calling Hillary for a statement?
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More on Enviro vs. National Security
I have an article up today about how member groups of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs are debating the exact language of a proposed resolution in support of reducing America’s dependence on oil: Some would like to see more of a focus on the environment and global warming, while others are more focused on…
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Biblical Discontinuity
Isaac Hirshbein of La Mesa, Calif., wants to know why, in all English translations of the Bible, four of the Five Books of Moses, or Pentateuch, have Greek names — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy — while a fifth bears the English name of Numbers. “Why the break in continuity?” he asks. “And what is…
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Dating Dilemmas
Seth Weiss, 26, a consultant from Chicago, once got set up with two cousins within a two-week span. Alison Rodin, 24, a programming assistant from New York City, once was out to dinner with four friends when it occurred to her that three of the women at her table had gone out with the same…
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My Niece Has Two Daddies
This column will once again be devoted to the gays. If you’re really sick of me (or hey, Conservative Jews in general) talking about the gays… well, too bad. Next month I promise to write about Nascar, Girls Gone Wild DVDs, Mickey Spillane novels and those hard hats with drainage systems you can attach beer…
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Looking for Love In All the Right Books
For the involuntarily single and the recently dumped, Valentine’s Day has long been an opportunity to mope, feel sorry for oneself, and lick the wounds that others are salting with their roses and chocolates. However, three of this season’s new books may help keep hope alive. Aimed at the unattached, the single mother and the…
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