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Harold Ford, Jr.’s Church Commercial
The campaign of Rep. Harold Ford Jr. – the Democratic nominee for Bill Frist’s Senate seat – has released a commercial filmed in the sanctuary of Ford’s childhood church. Notice how it is shot so that the cross in the corner, which starts off in the distance, winds up looking like a parrot on Ford’s…
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Ford Family Connections Motivate Pro-Israel Fundraiser
Rep. Harold Ford Jr., the Democratic nominee in Tennessee for the Senate seat being vacated by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, heads to Englewood, N.J. this Sunday for a fundraiser hosted by the pro-Israel political action committee NORPAC. NORPAC’s boosterism is interesting because while Ford Jr. has built up a staunchly pro-Israel record in Congress,…
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The Republicans Want to Hear Your Story
The Republican Jewish Coalition is looking for a few good Democrats-turned-GOPers to tell their stories. Here’s the e-mail that the group sent out … The RJC is challenging Jewish Democrats to re-examine today’s Democratic Party and see if it’s right for them. Many of them are finding that they are no longer comfortable with the…
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The Bride Is Too Pretty
Forward reader Harold H. Rotman writes to ask: “My mother, of blessed memory, used to use an expression that describes an absurd, impossible, preposterous circumstance, as, for example, that a prayer was too long, or that a great hockey game was going into a third overtime, or that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony took forever. The expression…
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Israeli Rightist Calls for Transfer of Arabs
CORRECTION: The print version of this story gave an incorrect figure regarding the Kach Party. Rabbi Meir Kahane was its only member to be elected to the Knesset. Effi Eitam, a leader of the joint Knesset faction aligned with Orthodox Zionists worldwide, drew swift condemnation this week from secular American Jewish organizations because of his…
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Allies Press U.S., Israel To Talk With Hamas-Fatah Coalition
The American and Israeli governments will face growing international pressure to engage with a Palestinian unity government — even one dominated by the terrorist organization Hamas, foreign diplomats in Washington said this week. The new government has yet to be formed, but Palestinian officials this week were publicly saying that Hamas, the ruling Islamic fundamentalist…
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Ethiopian Immigration Cut To Pay For Conflict
JERUSALEM — Israel is planning to halve the rate of Ethiopian immigration to pay for the recent Lebanon war, in a move that critics say would violate the government’s pledge to American Jewish charities to double the rate of new arrivals. The government, in a draft of the 2007 state budget that was approved by…
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Liberals Cheering at JTS, Crying Foul Elsewhere Over Gay Debate
Even as the incoming liberal chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary appears to be solidifying his control over Conservative Judaism’s flagship institution, the movement’s congregational union is being accused of sidelining vocal supporters of gay rights. For Arnold Eisen, chancellor elect of JTS, the school year began last week with two standing ovations and the…
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Filmmaker Hopes Passion for Esther Puts Jews and Christians in the Seats
“Touch your neighbor’s hand and say ‘destiny,’” Matthew Crouch implored the crowd, a microphone pressed to his lips. “We’re all Christians here,” he proclaimed, with the rousing cadence of a megachurch preacher. On a recent Friday afternoon some 200 churchgoers, seated in a movie theatre at the AMC Empire 25 multiplex in Times Square, did…
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Minnesota Winner Poised To be First Muslim in Congress
Overcoming concerns about his past association with the Nation of Islam, Democratic front-runner Keith Ellison prevailed Tuesday in a crowded Minneapolis primary to put himself in a strong position to become the first Muslim member of Congress. Speaking via telephone the morning after his victory, the newly minted Democratic nominee in Minnesota’s fifth district told…
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Harold Ford Sr. Pushes For Jake
It increasingly looks like State Sen. Steve Cohen, who last month captured the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s ninth district, will be facing a serious independent challenge from the scion of the Ford political dynasty. Cohen, who beat out a deep field of African-American candidates in the primary, now faces Jake Ford, son of Harold Ford…
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