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Rep. Rothman: End the War
Upon being named to the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Defense, Democratic Rep. Rothman of New Jersey issued a release stating that “no issue is more important to me or my constituents than ending the war in Iraq while continuing to strengthen our military to protect our country.” Oh, and in case the message wasn’t…
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Jewish Republicans to Wesley Clark: Apologize
The Jewish Republicans issued a statement today blasting Wesley Clark over his allegedy saying that if America strikes Iran it would be the result of “pressure being channeled from the New York money people.” Below is the group’s full statement. … Clark Should Apologize for “Blatantly Anti-Semitic Remarks” January 8, 2007 Washington, DC… The Republican…
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Will We Bomb Iran? Wes Clark Says Follow the (New York) Money
Arianna Huffington says this column has Wes Clark certain that Israeli talk of U.S. strikes against Iran is a good harbinger of what’s to come from the Bush administration. “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press,” Huffington quotes the former NATO commander and Democratic presidential candidate as saying. “The Jewish community is…
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McCain Lines Up N.Y. Money Men, Raising Pressure on Rudy Giuliani
Arizona Senator John McCain has scored an early victory in the battle between GOP presidential frontrunners by locking up support from several New York-area Republican moneymen also coveted by his northeastern rival, former Big Apple mayor Rudy Giuliani. McCain’s stable of national finance co-chairs includes Lewis Eisenberg, a multimillionaire financier from Rumson, N.J. who previously…
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The Sabbath Planet
Ze’ev Orzech writes from Corvallis, Ore.: “I am intrigued by the connection between the Hebrew name for the planet Saturn, shabtai, which comes from Shabbat, and the word ‘Satur’ or ‘Saturn’s day.’” How, he asks, are we to explain this? That there is indeed a connection seems beyond doubt. The question is what came first….
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Israeli Experts Say Middle East Was Safer With Saddam in Iraq
Jerusalem – Although few tears were shed in Israel over Saddam Hussein’s death last week, a small but growing chorus — including government officials, academics and Iraqi émigrés — is warning that Israel could find itself in more danger with him gone, and that it might even regret having welcomed his toppling. “If I knew…
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U.S., Israel Seek To Boost Abbas With Prisoner Swap
Washington – Israeli and American officials are seeking ways to credit Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with any Israeli-Palestinian deal on a prisoner swap reached in the coming days. Israel and the United States are expected to agree to the release of leading Fatah activist Marwan Barghouti as part of the deal, viewing him as…
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Annan’s Legacy Debated as Term Ends
Israeli officials and most Jewish communal leaders would agree with the following: Kofi Annan took unprecedented steps to make Israel a full member of the United Nations, combat antisemitism and make sure that the Holocaust was paid proper respect within the world body. They would, however, also subscribe to the point of view that Annan…
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Mysterious Murder in Peru Goes Unsolved
Lima, Peru – She fought with all her might. Myriam Fefer even broke her red, acrylic fingernails trying to fend off her attacker. But in the early morning hours of August 15, 2006, the assailant succeeded in wrapping a computer cord around Fefer’s neck and strangling her to death in the bedroom of her home…
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Rapist’s Escape Further Erodes Israel’s Faith in Leaders
Jerusalem – A few weeks ago, Rachel Iscove, a 27-year-old lawyer in Tel Aviv, joined the other female workers in her office and approached her employer with what normally would be an unacceptable request. “We asked our boss if we could leave early every day so we could get home before sunset,” said Iscove, a…
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Police Clash With Hasidim in Tel Aviv Suburb
Security officers were assaulted this week by dozens of Orthodox Jews as they attempted to enter a Hasidic-owned hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of B’nai Brak to track down a Jerusalem man under house arrest there, after the homing device on his court-ordered electronic bracelet went dead, according to a report in the daily…
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