A Jewish Republican Grows in California…
… Josh Richman has the scoop on Steve Poizner in this week’s Forward.
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The Moments That Still Live
When Joseph introduces Pharaoh to his father, Jacob, Pharaoh asks him, in the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation of Genesis 47:8, which is here, as is often the case, much closer to the Hebrew than more recent translations: How many are the days of the years of your life? The more recent JPS translation reduces…
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Judas Time on The McLaughlin Group
It was Christmas on The McLaughlin Group last weekend, but things sure felt more like Easter season when it came time for each host to name the “Turncoat of the Year.” They could just as well called it “Judas of the Year” with the picks they were coming up with. No surprise in Pat Buchanan…
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And the White House’s New Point Man on Jewish Issues Is…
Nathan Guttman has the scoop.
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Does Kosher Sex Allow for Lust in the Heart?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach weighs in on President Carter and his new book.
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Does Jimmy Carter Read Tikkun?
It turns out that President Carter still has at least one public defender in the Jewish community: Michael Lerner.
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Lerner Reaches Out to President Carter
While leaders from across the Jewish spectrum have rushed to condemn former president Jimmy Carter and his new book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” at least one prominent Jewish figure has headed in the opposite direction. Michael Lerner, founding editor of the liberal bimonthly Tikkun, wrote in an email to the magazine’s contributors early this month…
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Paying Tribute to Gerald Ford
The Republican Jewish Coalition was first out of the gate with this tribute to President Gerald Ford. Next was the ADL and then the O.U..
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With Pow-wow, Olmert Tries To Bolster Abbas and Himself
When Ehud Olmert stepped outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem and kissed Mahmoud Abbas on both cheeks Saturday evening, he was offering the Palestinian leader a political embrace. Regard it as the embrace of two men flailing in stormy waters — but which man was drowning, which was rescuing him and did the rescue…
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One of Vilna’s Own Trains a Lens on the City (Correction)
An article in the 12/22 issue of the Forward misstated the name of Mira Van Doren’s new documentary about Vilna. It is called “The World Was Ours.”
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Boydem II:Yiddish and Cockney?
We ended last week’s column with the Yiddish expression plotkes, loksh, boydem, politsa, “crappies, noodles, attic, shelf,” or alternately, loksh, boydem, politsa or boydem mit politsa, in the sense of an unrelated hodgepodge, or, as one says in colloquial English, “everything but the kitchen sink.” Why these particular four items were chosen to express the…
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