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Sharpton Blasts Lieberman
Rev. Al Sharpton has issued a stinging rebuke of Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has criticized his rival Ned Lamont for appearing with Sharpton at campaign events. For months, Lieberman’s camp has attacked Lamont for the company he keeps, but a jibe at Sharpton from Joe himself at an early October fundraising event has apparently prompted…
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Opponent of Muslim Candidate Charged with Domestic Violence in 1995
As we reported earlier in our pages, Democratic candidate Keith Ellison – who is almost certain to win election from his Minneapolis district and become the first Muslim in Congress – has stirred up considerable controversy due to his past ties to the Nation of Islam. His opponent, Alan Fine, isn’t without his own problems…
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McCain Answers Question About Stumping for Chafee
As we reported on this blog last week, Sen. John McCain – known as a strong ally of Israel in Congress – has raised some eyebrows lately by stumping in Rhode Island for embattled Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who has often raised the ire of the pro-Israel community. In response to a question from the Forward…
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The Etrog
The etrog or citron, or esrog, as it is called in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Hebrew, is a curious fruit. Historically the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced into the Mediterranean and into Southern Europe from the East, it is also the least edible, the only way to make a food of it being…
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ABC News Man Shares Notes on How To Win in 2008
Presidential politics in America today is only superficially about ideas or policies. At its most raw and elemental, it is about men and their drives: an animal slugfest fueled by desire and ambition. In recent years, fed by polarization, the rise of more overtly partisan media outlets and the explosion of blogs, politics at all…
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GOP’s Page Scandal Could Boost Dem Candidate in South Florida
CORRECTION: The print edition of this article mischaracterized the view of Jeff Ballabon. He believes that if Republican leaders knew about Mark Foley’s actions and hid them for political purposes, then they should resign. The scandal over a disgraced Republican’s sexually suggestive emails to teenage congressional pages could end up swinging at least one key…
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Jerusalem’s Damascus Conundrum Raises Wartime Memories of Yom Kippur Past
Bashar Assad says he wants peace — but failing that, he’ll take war. The Syrian president has made a point of intoning that message repeatedly of late. In Israel, the question of how to respond — indeed, whether to respond at all — has created a ragged political division that cuts across the usual lines…
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Scholars Debate ‘Israel Lobby’ Article
John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago professor who co-authored a controversial article last winter about the power of the “The Israel Lobby,” met his critics head-on last week for a debate before a rowdy audience on the stage of New York’s historic Cooper Union. It was a vigorous exchange, replete with accusations of antisemitism, conspiracy-mongering,…
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Bronfman ‘Kvells,’ Debuts New Holiday Services
If you’re going to atone for your sins, you might as well do it in comfort. And if you’re Edgar Bronfman, why not do it from the comfort of your own home? As New Yorkers packed into synagogues on the evening of Kol Nidre to reflect on their transgressions of the past year, some 100…
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Federations Secure Funding Pledge for Senior Programs
The Jewish community has scored a legislative victory in its effort to develop programs that allow the elderly to live at home while receiving vital services. Congress passed legislation last week to create a new federal grant program for development of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, the brainchild of United Jewish Communities that provides an alternative…
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Letter from Ukraine: Facing God at Babi Yar
Babi Yar, who has heard about it? It is here, in the suburbs of Kiev, near the old Jewish cemetery, on September 29, 1941 —Yom Kippur day — that the Einsatzkommando headed by Paul Blobel, an SS colonel, with the help of the Ukrainian police, used machine guns to exterminate the Jewish inhabitants of this…
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