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Run, Ari Run?
Speculation is building that Ari Fleischer, the Whitehouse speechwriter-turned-Jewish speaking circuit regular, could end up running for Congress in 2008.
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The White House Decider Splits the Difference in Ancient Hanukkah Argument
For centuries rabbis have debated whether the greatest Hanukkah miracle was the Jewish victory against the Greeks or the oil that lasted eight days. President Bush says: both.
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Heads Up to Adam Sandler: Howard Dean Lights the Menorah
Howard Dean released a Happy Hanukkah message over the weekend, reminding us that he does hold a candle to the RNC’s Jewish outgoing chief Ken Mehlman. Yes, Dean, who would have given the country its first Jewish First Lady, lights the menorah: “Tonight, as my family and I light the first candle of the menorah,…
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Conservative Rabbis Pledge Groundbreaking System for Monitoring Working Conditions at Kosher Plants
Leaders of Conservative Judaism are planning to create a new ethical certification system for kosher food in response to the findings of a special commission that investigated working conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. The five-person commission, formed by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly, was created following an investigative…
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Boydem
My French Vietnamese friend Sabine Huynh, a poet and professio sraeli, sent me the following e-mail: “When I told the Israeli friend who came for dinner last week that there was no storage room in our Tel Aviv apartment and that we’ll need to consult with a carpenter to find a solution to this problem,…
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Overseas Seminaries Set To Reject Gay Ordination
While gay activists and their supporters are hailing last week’s vote permitting the ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis and the sanctioning of same-sex unions within Conservative Judaism, many of the movement’s far-flung branches — including most overseas branches — appear likely to reject the options. In Los Angeles, the rabbinical school of the University…
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Doctors Say Circumcision Ritual Still Not Safe
A long-simmering dispute over a controversial circumcision procedure with allegedly life-threatening risks will land like a hot potato on the desk of incoming New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer this January, after the administration of outgoing Republican Governor George Pataki reached an agreement with Hasidic leaders on precautions that medical experts say will do little…
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Iran Denies Visa to an Arab Shoah Scholar
Khaled Kasab Mahameed waited until the very last moment, hoping that his visa would come through. A Muslim lawyer from the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, he had reserved a seat on an afternoon flight December 10 from Amman to Tehran, expecting to address Iran’s international conference on the Holocaust. His bag was packed. His…
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As Washington Studies Iraq Report, Jerusalem Frets Over Tehran Talk
While the release of the long-awaited Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq policy has produced an outpouring of protest from Jewish groups opposing its calls for talks with Iran, Syria and the Palestinians, insiders say that the real target of Israel’s anxiety is neither Syria nor the Palestinians, but Iran and its nuclear program. Earlier this week,…
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Tensions Divide L.A.’s Iranian Jewish Community
Los Angeles – By now, the large Iranian Jewish influx into this city — giving it the nickname “Tehrangeles” — is no secret. But, perhaps as with any growing community, fault lines are emerging. And since almost nothing reveals differences as sharply as an internationally broadcast controversy, the brouhaha over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s apparent antisemitism…
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Watching Rabbis Making Human Rights History, an Embattled Soldier on My Mind
Doron Almog is one of Israel’s toughest soldiers — the first onto the tarmac in Entebbe in 1976, the first into Beirut in 1982, field commander of the mid-1980s desert exodus from Ethiopia, chief of the Southern Command during the worst years of the second intifada. Retired in 2003, he was called back this past…
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