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Translating the Audience
Five times in this week’s portion, Bo, the reader, is told to tell the story of the Exodus to a family audience. But who exactly is to be told? The word ben (offspring, traditionally son) functions as something of a refrain in the Hebrew. At its beginning (Exodus 10:2), midsection (12:24, 26) and conclusion (13:8,…
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Michael Ciresi: "Very Strongly Leaning" Towards a Run
Michael Ciresi – a wealthy trial lawyer who narrowly lost Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary in 2000 – told the Forward that is he “very strongly leaning” towards making another run in 2008. As we reported this week in our pages, the 2008 Minnesota race is shaping up to be an exciting affair: Comedian-turned-pundit Al Franken…
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AJCongress Reverses Stance
The saga of the American Jewish Congress’s resignation from a pro-Israel campus coalition took a bizarre turn this week when the organization partly retracted its retraction of the resignation. After telling the Forward last week that a letter of resignation tendered to the Israel on Campus Coalition had been written by an assistant regional director…
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Read the Whole Edwards Speech
We’ve already posted a few times on the Edwards speech at the Herzliya Conference. But you need to read the whole thing to see just how hawkish a chord he struck (Iran must be stopped from getting nuclear weapons, the regime cannot be trusted, the Europeans are too soft on the issue, the U.N. resolution…
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Good Thing Edwards Doesn’t Need Canadian Liberals
John Edwards’ hawkish remarks at the Herzliya Conference on Iran has drawn liberal criticism – in Canada.
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Did Condi Rice Call Hamas a ‘Resistance Movement’?
Yes. During a press briefing last week in London.
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Franken for Senate: A Rural Minnesota Dem Weighs In
If Al Franken runs for Senate, can he appeal to the state’s rural voters, as well as the Democratic base in the Twin Cities? In this week’s Forward, we took at look at the possibility of an emerging Al Franken-Norm Coleman match-up, and found that at this very early date, Democratic insiders are far from…
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A "Get" Law for Maryland?
Also on Aguthath’s agenda: A “Get Law” for Maryland, which would require men filing for civil divorce to also file an affidavit stating that all barriers to remarriage – including religious barriers like the need for a get, or Jewish divorce – have been removed by the seeker of the dissoluton.
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Allies on Airport Security: Agudath Israel and the ACLU
Here’s another item for the Forward’s compendium of strange bedfellows: The American Civil Liberties Union is joining forces with the ultra-Orthodox organization Agudath Israel of America to protest the introduction of X-ray scanners at U.S. aiports. The scanners beam low level x-rays through people’s clothing, and although “cloaking” software is supposed to introduce a level…
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Norm Coleman’s New Job
As Jennifer Siegel reports this week, Senator Norm Coleman appears to be bracing for a tough reelection campaign in 2008. He has joined Democrats in criticizing President Bush’s proposed troop surge in Iraq. So it’s worth watching to see how he operates as the newly named ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on…
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If You Need Some Campaign Cash…
Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban, a friend of the Clintons, is the top money man when it comes to contributing to American political campaigns (see this report).
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