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Nadler Calls Out Gonzales
Rep. Jerry Nadler issued a statement saying that he’s still waiting for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to answer questions about America’s policy of handing terror suspects over to other countries to be tortured, a practive known as rendition. On the bright side for doves who favor diplomacy in the Middle East, it’s at least one…
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Pulling a Fast One on the GOP in Pa.
A young Jewish Democratic lawmaker to watch in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, helps turn the tables on Republicans in the State House.
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More Tributes to Ford
Shimon Peres praises the late President Ford. And, a little late compared to other Jewish groups, today the Reform movement’s liberal Religious Action Center issued a statement on the passing of President Ford: In response to today’s funeral of former President Gerald Ford, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,…
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Jackie Mason: Obama Oy!
Jackie Mason has issued his verdict on Barack Obama. Let’s just say he’d rather eat a prune danish than see the Illinois senator in the White House (Hat Tip American Thinker): “If he was a tall white man or a short Jew, do you think after two years in the Senate having accomplished nothing that…
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Carter Can’t Win (Now He Has a Palestinian Angry at Him)
President Carter has been insisting that the “Apartheid” in the title of his new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” refers to Gaza and the West Bank – NOT Israel. Carter’s defense may allay the concerns of a few Jewish detractors (doubtful), but now he’s got at least one Palestinian upset (Hat Tip Indybay.org).
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Borat’s Buffoonery
Among readers of the Forward, I may be the last on the block to see Sacha Baron Cohen’s film, “Borat”; in Israel it started showing only two weeks ago. Actually, I had been waiting for it impatiently. After all, how many box office hits are there that have Hebrew as their secret language? All the…
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Senators Visit Damascus, Push For Syrian Talks
Washington – As the Israeli debate over engaging Damascus intensifies, several influential American lawmakers have defied the White House with visits to Syria and calls for talks between the United States and the Baathist regime. This week, the issue heated up in Israel as the country’s Mossad spy agency and military intelligence sparred over the…
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Founder Retakes Reins of Liberal Mag, Plans Less Israel Coverage
As two of his top editors leave to work on other projects, Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish bimonthly Tikkun, has indicated that he is looking to redirect his magazine’s energies away from Israel and toward a greater focus on interfaith matters. In a December 4 e-mail to writers for the magazine, and in…
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Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum
“As opposed to the dense and demanding discourse of scholarship, students crave instant gratification,” complained outgoing Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Ismar Schorsch in his fiery farewell address last May. “The way to the heart is not through the circuitous and arduous route of the mind but the rhythmic beat of the drums.” Although framed in…
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Kabbalah Centre Scion on the Defensive at Jewish Mysticism Parley
San Diego – With Hollywood starlets donning red-string bracelets and toting the Zohar around as if it were the latest fashion accessory, serious proponents of Jewish mysticism find themselves struggling over the commercialization and popularization of Kabbalah. In particular, students and teachers have been trying to figure out whether they should be ecstatic or despondent…
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A Failed Search for a Neturei Karta Defender
It was a rumor too juicy to ignore: A teacher at a mainstream Orthodox high school in New York City, the story went, was prepared to defend the six ultra-traditionalist rabbis who attended the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran earlier this month. The story seemed to be the perfect counterweight to the current uproar surrounding…
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