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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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Bolton: U.N. Role in Quartet a Mistake
Washington — In a January 5 conference call with members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bolton said that it was “probably” a mistake to allow the U.N. to assume a lead role in the Quartet, the diplomatic entity sponsoring the road map peace plan. Bolton was addressing the recent assertion by the new…
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Wesley Clark: Dear Abe…
In an effort to calm the mounting Jewish communal furor over this mess, Wesley Clark sent the ADL’s Abe Foxman the following letter: January 9, 2007 Abraham H. Foxman National Director Anti-Defamation League New York, NY Dear Mr. Foxman: I really enjoyed our conversation yesterday and look forward to our continuing relationship. As we discussed,…
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Finding Religion: A 5-Step Program
The Orthodox Union’s man in D.C., Nathan Diament, has a piece up over at Beliefnet in which he lays out five steps that Democrats could take to build support among religious voters.
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Who Says Only the Zionists Care About the Killing in Darfur?
The Arab American Institute, James Zogby’s outfit, is also calling for action, in a new television ad on Arabic-language stations. Money quote from the ad: “Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq – Darfur. We must pray for them all.” Money quote from Zogby: “Just as the Arab American and Muslim American communities have spoken out against the violence…
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