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All Through the Night
Here’s how parenting works: Something is the biggest problem in the world. It will never pass, and time stops (exactly as if you’re the Japanese guy in “Heroes”) and then suddenly the problem passes (exactly as if you’re the Japanese guy in “Heroes” when time starts again) and then you totally forget that there was…
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Spiritual Sounds
Last year, on a recent evening in December, the Villa-Lobos Brothers, three virtuoso violinists from Veracruz, Mexico, made their main-stage debut at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Their path to that venerated concert hall, however, was rather unusual. The brothers are members of the Shul Band, a folk rock octet that performs Hebrew liturgical songs…
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The Subversion of Myth
A major finding of modern biblical scholarship is the extent to which the narrative in the book of Exodus is informed by the ancient Israelites’ knowledge of Egyptian culture, religion and literature. The birth story of Moses in Exodus 2:1-10 provides an excellent illustration of both the extent of and the transformation involved in such…
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Nadler Raises the Ante
Rep. Jerrold Nadler has introduced a bill stipulating that no American funds can be used in Iraq except to protect our troops or bring them home. “It has been wrongly asserted that Congress cannot force the President to de-escalate or withdraw from Iraq because it cannot use its only real power — cutting off funds…
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Dissing the Carter Center Part II
The Anti-Defamation League has taken a lead role in the Jewish community’s counter-offensive against Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (see here and here). Now the organization has released a statement praising the decision of 14 members of the advisory board of the Carter Center to resign. In their letter to Carter explaing…
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Dissing the Carter Center (First the Rabbis, Now the Board Members)
Jennifer Siegel has a story up about the rabbinical arm of the Reform movement cancelling a trip to the Carter Center in protest of the former president’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” and comments he has made during the publicity tour. Today 14 members of the center’s board of councilors announced that they were…
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Bush: I Listen to Democrats (Named Lieberman)
By our count, in his address on Iraq last night, President Bush mentioned only one lawmaker by name: Senator Joe Lieberman. Acting on the good advice of Senator Joe Lieberman and other key members of Congress, we will form a new, bipartisan working group that will help us come together across party lines to win…
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Coleman Cold on Surge
Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican likely to face a tough fight in 2008, took to the Senate floor to oppose sending more troops to Iraq. “A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem,” said Coleman, a Minnesota Republican and White House…
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The O.U. Fights for Private School Funding
On Monday night, the Maryland Non-Public Schools Legislative Coalition – which the O.U.’s Institute for Public Affairs helped found – held 17 hearings across the state for more public funding and benefits for private schools. Meanwhile, Maryland’s Montgomery County public school system just approved a new gay-inclusive sex education curriculum.
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Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave
A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native homeland despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial and anti-Israeli speeches. In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so…
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Mark Your Calendars: Hillary at Aipac
Hillary Clinton will be featured at Aipac’s annual Northeast regional dinner on February 1 in NYC.
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