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J.D. Hayworth: "A More Observant Jew" Than You
A Jewish representative of Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona said the lawmaker “is a more observant Jew” than the audience members at a candidates’ forum in Scottsdale on Tuesday night. Apparently, roughly 70% of the attendees then walked out jeering. According to Hannah Kaplan, the co-president of the National Council of Jewish Women, the…
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Answering a Reader Who Tried and Tried Again
Doris Gahler does not give up easily. Like many of you, she found that her first e-mail to me received no answer. There are good reasons for this when it happens. They include: 1) Laziness; 2) Procrastination; 3) Lack of space in my next columns; 4) Not knowing the answer to your question; 5) Having…
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Charity Hits Back in Feud Over Arab Aid
The head of the largest Jewish charitable federation in the country is taking right-wing groups to task for arguing that philanthropic dollars raised for Israel during the recent war with Hezbollah should not have been used to aid Arab citizens of the Jewish state. Controversy surrounding the issue erupted in recent weeks when the hawkish…
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Latest Game Show Entry: Moms Vying for ‘Hottest’
They’re sexy, and they know it. They wear tight jeans and high heels, and they’re more than happy to shake their booties for the camera. Meet the moms of America! On the morning of October 14, nearly 1,000 women turned up at a midtown Manhattan studio, each hoping to land a spot on “Hottest Mom…
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Olmert Pal Seeks Tough-guy Regime
Avigdor Lieberman, head of the rightwing Yisrael Beitenu party, wants Israel to have a chief executive with broad new powers. And there’s little doubt about whom the Russian-born lawmaker would like to see in that job. Achieving that goal may elude him. But in recent days, Lieberman has been wielding inordinate power over the country’s…
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Immigrant Pol Seen as Backing ‘Putin’ Model
How, the joke goes, do you say “Putin” in Hebrew? Answer: “Lieberman.” That’s one implication emerging from the recent discussion in the Hebrew press of Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal for a change in Israel’s system of government. “Lieberman isn’t dreaming of the American model, but rather, the Putin model,” leading pundit Nahum Barnea wrote recently in…
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Sharansky To Resign From Politics
The former dissident who became the symbol of the struggle for Soviet Jewry and whose ideas on democracy in the Middle East were hailed by President Bush is quitting Israeli politics. Natan Sharansky announced last week that he would resign his post in the Knesset after 10 years, a time period in which he went…
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Titans Take Over ‘Jewish Davos’ as Rape Allegations Sink Katsav
Back before he was facing indictment on rape charges, Israeli President Moshe Katsav hitched his star to the creation of a body of Jewish intellectuals and politicians that was to confront what he called the “crisis situation” facing the Jewish people. The gathering — initially referred to as a World Jewish Parliament — was originally…
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GOP Group Outspending Rivals on Jewish Ads
A national Jewish Republican group is outspending its Democratic counterpart by a margin of four-to-one or more on advertisements targeting Jewish voters, political insiders told the Forward. The Republican Jewish Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy group, announced last week that it would continue running a series of controversial advertisements, attacking the Democrats’ commitment to Israel, in…
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Indiana Lawmaker in Bid for GOP Post
An Indiana Republican lawmaker best known for his lead role in the congressional investigations of Bill Clinton is reaching out for Jewish support in his campaign to head the House International Relations Committee, arguing that he has proved he is “tough enough” to stand up for what he believes is right, regardless of the opposition….
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Groups Fear New Security Funding Process
WASHINGTON — Changes in how homeland security dollars are distributed to not-for-profit organizations are likely to put Jewish federations in direct competition with one another for a small pot of funds. After a year with no allocation of funds to not-for-profit sites, the Department of Homeland Security is again gearing up to distribute $25 million…
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