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Democrat Jim Davis: Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Should ‘Get to the Back of the Line’
Florida Democratic Rep. Jim Davis – who is still trailing in his gubernatorial race against the state’s attorney general, Charlie Christ – summed up his views on immigration policy on a conference call this morning arranged by the National Jewish Democratic Coalition. Proclaiming U.S. immigration policies “broken,’ Davis called for stronger enforcement, better border control,…
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Back to the Beach
Block Island doesn’t have a synagogue. But that doesn’t stop the island’s tiny Jewish community from observing Yom Kippur — on the open deck of the Catholic parish center, with a breathtaking view of the Atlantic Ocean, facing Jerusalem. Too small for even one traffic light, rustic Block Island is a lamb chop-shaped bit of…
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Golan Cipel: N.J. Jews Betrayed Me
Golan Cipel, who continues to deny former N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey’s claims that they had an affair, told the New Jersey Jewish News that he felt abandoned by the Jewish community in the Garden State… “I was part of the NJ Jewish community, and I helped a lot of people, and in my time of…
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GOP Push for Sectarian Public Prayers in Military Opposed by Orthodox Group
In their fight to pass legislation allowing military chaplains to offer sectarian prayers at public services, conservative congressional leaders have lost an erstwhile ally: the Orthodox Union. The O.U., an organization that represents about 1,000 congregations and often joins Christian conservatives in their fight to lower the wall separating church and state, has weighed in…
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On Second Thought, Mary …
The Weekly Standard notes that just a few months ago Mary Matalin had this to say about Senator George Allen… “He’s just authentic,” Matalin said. “We’re in the era of authenticity. He’s serious, but he’s comfortable. He doesn’t get rattled. He doesn’t tap dance.”
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Jerry Falwell: Hillary is the Devil (Just Kidding!)
Nearly 2,000 Christian activists attended the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. this weekend, an extended pep rally organized by Focus on the Family and other organizations on the religious right. The event, and several others like it around the country, are intended to motivate a key segment of the Republican base in advance of…
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Giffords Looks Good
This recently released poll shows the Democratic state senator, who is vying for the seat of retiring Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe in Arizona’s eighth district, has a near 13-point lead over Republican opponent Randy Graff. Showing further confidence, the DCCC cancelled planned ad buys on Friday, following a similar move by the NRCC on Thursday.
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Remembering Babi Yar
Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko reads his renowned poem, “Babi Yar,” in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the massacre in Kiev at a ravine called Babi Yar. On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 30,000 Jews — along with Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies and underground fighters — were murdered by the Nazis. The event,…
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Islam and Fascism
Although the terms “Islamic fascism” and “Islamo-fascism” have been around for quite awhile, the public debate over both has been heightened by President Bush’s use of them in an August 7 press conference in Washington, D.C. At one point in this conference, the president mentioned “the jihadist message [of] Islamic radicalism, Islamic fascism.” In another,…
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A Tribe of Candidates Leads Drive To Retake House for Democrats
More than a half-century ago, when Akiba Hornstein, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi, made his way from New York to the sunny desert of southern Arizona, he found himself, like many Jews in the hinterlands, in need of a name change. Soon, the state had a Gifford Hornstein. When, presumably, that moniker failed to…
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Democratic Hopefuls Find Religion on Campaign Trail
In an attempt to woo religious voters, Tennessee’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate has filmed a campaign commercial in his childhood church, with a large white cross looming over his right shoulder. “I started in the church the old-fashioned way… I was forced to,” said Rep. Harold Ford Jr., sitting in a glossy wooden…
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