Staffer Loses Her Witz
Note to Democratic staffers: “Macacawitz” jokes can be hazardous to your professional health.
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Warning: Your Sukkah could be mobbed this year – by a pack of Jewish artists
From October 9-13 the “Sukkas Mob,” led by performer/director Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works theater group, will be making the rounds in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island. The artists will explore the traditional aspects of the holiday while infusing it with secularism, humor and art – and attempt to trigger some public discussions of…
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Pro-Israel PAC Gives McCain A Pass On Chafee
It doesn’t seem like pro-Israel PACs are getting too riled over Sen. John McCain’s stumping for embattled Senator Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island this week. McCain is a close friend of the pro-Israel community who collected money from several groups in recent years, while Chafee is among the least popular members of Congress for friends…
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Weeks, Not Months
California Congressman Howard Berman, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee set up to investigate the Foley affair, said yesterday that their probe would take “weeks, not months.” Haven’t we heard that one before?
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One of the Jewish Dems Hoping for a Bump: Paul Aronsohn
Paul Aronsohn, a former Clinton staffer who is challenging conservative Republican Scott Garrett in New Jersey’s fifth congressional district, is one of a dozen Jewish Dems challenging for Republican-held seats in the House. Although his race isn’t seen as among the highly competitive cohort, Aronsohn has gained 9 percentage points on Garrett since last March,…
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Ruach She’ainah Meztuyah
in a small spot where shadows once fell from towers a modest succah quietly rises and descends in a space of just over one week the builder expects that it will come down no climate control no alarm system only comfort and security of belief in He who lovingly commanded him to live in it…
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Foley’s (Jewish?) Friend
Here’s a report on the Palm Beach dermatologist and socialite rumored to be involed in a longtime relationship with Mark Foley. UPDATE: More on him here.
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Hastert Puts Pro-Israel PAC in the Hot Seat
As House Speaker Dennis Hastert finds himself in the hot seat over what he knew about Mark Foley and when he knew it, the collateral damage is extending to the pro-Israel donors who consider him a close ally. NORPAC, the pro-Israel political action committee based in the New York area, is scheduled to hold a…
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Hastert: It Was Soros!
Embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert says the Foley scandal is the creation of a George Soros-funded campaign. Read it here.
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Mark Foley: The Gay Jack Abramoff
Andrew Sullivan makes the link… Gay men, of course, went into a defensive crouch. Like Jews watching the Abramoff scandal, we winced at what we knew would be a collective blame-game. It always happens. There is no connection between homosexuality and an attraction to teenage boys–or at least, no more than there is between male…
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Election Roundup … 2008 Edition
As the November 2006 elections approach, there’s really no better time to campaign for 2008, as these presidential hopefuls are proving: McCain rounds up helpers in Iowa, while he stumps for Chafee, and weighs in on the Foley scandal. Mitt Romney recruits a steering committee for his PAC in New Hampshire, and reaches out to…
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