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Baker Panel To Avoid Calls for Peace Push
The bipartisan study group on Iraq co-chaired by former secretary of state James Baker will likely call for American engagement with Iran and Syria, but sources familiar with the process say there are no plans to push for a stepped-up role of the United States in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli officials have been privately…
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Best Case/Worst Case for November 7
The astute political blog from ABC News, The Note, has a great summary up today of the best and worst-case scenarios for both parties, and what each needs to do before November 7. Here’s their quick summary at the top: “The back-of-the-envelope best case for Republicans is holding the House and Senate — losing a…
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Tell George Allen’s Mother…
Katherine Harris: “We’re all sort of Jewish wannabes.”
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Worker Cited for Election Violation Campaigning for Lieberman
Here’s a last minute mini-scandal for Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who has a wide lead on Democratic nominee Ned Lamont after losing to him in the party’s primary last August. According to today’s Hartford Courant, a “Hartford Democrat who was fined and barred from involvement in absentee ballot activities last year is working for a company…
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Wyoming Could Get First Jewish Representative
According to this article in yesterday’s Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Democratic candidate Gary Trauner is now in a statistical dead-heat with Rep. Barbara Cubin for Wyoming’s single House seat. Down in Kentucky, where Democrat John Yarmuth also has the potential to make history as his state’s first Jewish member of the House, polls are showing that incumbent…
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Lieberman’s Cheer
One week before Election Day, Sen. Joe Lieberman is riding high.
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French Dressing
From Raphael Rothstein comes an e-mail query: “I am curious about the Hebrew slang expression la-lekhet franji, [literally, “to go franji”], i.e., to dress fancily. I believe it comes from the Middle Eastern word for Frenchman, European, or stranger. Is this so?” It is, indeed. Franji is the Arabic word for a European or European-like…
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Norman Salsitz, 86, Chronicled Holocaust
Norman Salsitz, Holocaust survivor and co-author, with his wife, of “Against All Odds: A Tale of Two Survivors,” died of pneumonia October 11 in Springfield, N.J. He was 86. Born Naftali Saleschutz in Kolbuszowa, Poland, Salsitz defied death many times — first as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis in the Polish forest and then…
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Report: FBI In Expanded Aipac Probe
An explosive new report claims that the federal investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, has been expanded to include suspicion of meddling in affairs of the House Intelligence Committee. The report comes immediately on the heels of two new surveys that shine a critical light on Israel and on…
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Pelosi Works To Shore Up Image
When the news broke last week that former President Jimmy Carter is set to release a book highly critical of Israel, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi quickly issued a statement denouncing the views of her fellow Democrat. “With all due respect,” Pelosi declared in a written statement, “he does not speak for the Democratic Party…
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Minister to Israeli Expats: You Can Come Home Again
On a recent Sunday afternoon on New York City’s Upper East Side, several hundred Big Apple residents gathered to hear from the Israeli government why they should consider immigrating to the Jewish homeland. But the targets of the pitch for life in Israel were not the usual crop of American Jews with Zionist leanings. They…
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