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Gay Barbecuers Say Missouri Mayor Wants To Run Them Out of Town
In the halcyon years of Rockaway Beach, Mo., thousands of Midwesterners descended on the Ozark resort town each summer to amble along the boardwalk, ride the Ferris wheel and swim off the sandy beach that hugged the shores of the White River. But like so many American communities once prized for their small-town charm, Rockaway…
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Pro-Israel Activists Upset With Berkeley Paper, Santa Cruz Mayor
OAKLAND, Calif. — Two recent controversies in Northern California cities have Jewish communal leaders protesting what they describe as a local embrace of anti-Israel rhetoric. In Santa Cruz, the mayor gave a visiting Palestinian ambassador a key to the city, just before the diplomat declared that “Hezbollah is an amateur in terrorism compared with Israel.”…
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Report: Iran Teaching War
WASHINGTON — A comprehensive study of Iranian textbooks shows that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory anti-Western, anti-American and antisemitic rhetoric is well rooted in his country’s educational system. The study, an analysis of 115 Iranian school textbooks and teacher’s guides published in recent years, concludes that Iran has devised “an educational system that prepares school children…
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Publishing CEO Must Fill Founder’s Shoes
When Google’s founders — two computer scientists with scant business experience between them — brought in a computer industry veteran to serve as CEO just three years after the upstart Internet search engine was launched, the move was seen as the result of pressure from outside venture capitalists. The original visionaries, while still involved in…
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An Education on Good Education
I remember hobbies. I used to go to the pottery studio and the gym. I’d find furniture on the street, then strip and repaint it in crazy colors and patterns. I tutored newly arrived immigrants in English. I baked. I read things. Things with more pages than Entertainment Weekly. These days, not so much. For…
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Matisyahu Plugs In
From under his thick beard, Jewish reggae rock star Matisyahu uttered a single word: “Crap.” His New York Rangers were being beaten across the ice by Brandon from Oregon. Matisyahu, whose real name is Matthew Miller, played fans last Tuesday in quick games of NHL 2K6, a popular Xbox 360 video game. The Lubavitch Hasid,…
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Cruel and Unusual
The modern imagination feels at home with the moral question raised by the Job story: Why do bad things happen to good people? It is a question that does not arise in Deuteronomy, which foresees punishments of spectacular awfulness in retribution upon a nation disobedient to God’s law. What type of disobedience will these calamities…
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Camp Massad
In response to my August 18 column, Marcel J. Silberman writes in an e-mail from Oklahoma City: “I was taken back when in your last column — about Katyusha — you mentioned that you had gone as a boy to a Hebrew-speaking camp. I too attended such a camp. It was Camp Massad in the…
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Cardin-Mfume Roundup: The Debate
Matthew E. Berger filed a report this week on the Democratic primary between Rep. Ben Cardin, a prominent Jewish lawmaker from the Baltimore area, and Kweisi Mfume, a former congressman and former head of the NAACP. A few notes from the campaign trail… Viewed as the frontrunner, Cardin was the main target at the recent…
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Bill Clinton Heads to the Show Me State
To [stump][1] for Democrat Claire McCaskill this Saturday. McCaskill, Missouri’s state auditor, is challenging Republican Jim Talent for his Senate seat, and current poll shows them in a dead heat, with 47% backing McCaskill versus 46% for Talent. Two percent supported Libertarian Frank Gilmour, while the remaining 5 percent were undecided. McCaskill drew Republican ire…
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Lieberman-Lamont Roundup: Joe Says He’s Ahead
Lieberman’s campaign releases poll that puts its guy way ahead. Team Lieberman pulls down link to a doctored photo of Osama bin Laden with a Ned Lamont bumper sticker. Lamont and Lieberman at it over Iraq. New Lamont ad asks: “Why do we listen when George Bush and Joe Lieberman tell us they know how…
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