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She Done Him Wrong
In Deuteronomy 25:11-12 we read: “If men are struggling together, a man and his brother, and one’s wife has approached to rescue her husband from his attacker’s grasp, and has put out her hand and taken hold by his privates, then you shall cut off her hand: Your eye is not to look with compassion.”…
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Kosher Pot Bust
Just the facts from the Reading Eagle (Hat tip: Failed Messiah): “Federal agents arrested about a half-dozen people and seized 700 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million at a kosher poultry processing plant in Exeter Township, authorities said Thursday.”
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Santorum: Pressure Iran
Senator Rick Santorum’s statement on Iran’s latests moves: “While I am disappointed in the failure of Iran’s government to comply with the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1696, the failure to suspend nuclear enrichment activities is not unexpected. The United States and other nations of the world gave Iran an opportunity to terminate these…
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Hawks and Doves
Israel’s former military chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, told The Jerusalem Post that his successor, Dan Halutz, and Defense Minister Amir Peretz should resign. Yaalon has been a consistent and frequent critic of the Gaza pullout and the concept of unilateral disengagements, arguing that they only serve to embolden Islamic fundamentalists. Much of the credit…
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Lieberman-Lamont Roundup
Ned Lamont’s campaign has hired a prominent Democratic blogger, David Sirota. Senator Joe Lieberman says he’s expecting a cold reception from some of his Democratic colleagues when he returns to the Senate next week. Lieberman is calling for a five-person debate. Connecticut Rep. Christopher Shays, a Republican facing a tough reelection fight, says that the…
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Allen’s Mom
Forward contributing editor E.J. Kessler couldn’t get any response from Senator George Allen’s office when we were working on a story about his mother’s Jewish roots. But Allen’s campaign spokesperson, Dick Wadhams, recently told the Washington Jewish Week that mother, Etty Allen, was “raised in a Christian home” — but didn’t know which denomination.
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Maher: Bush Best on Israel
Duing a recent interview with Larry King, erstwhile Bush basher Bill Maher had some backhanded praise for the president: I mean can you imagine if there was a terrorist organization that took over the country on our northern border, which would be Canada, and they started shelling us in our northern cities and Minnesota and…
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Sunrise, Sunset
Alison Solomon writes this week in the Forward about the importance of “Fiddler on the Roof” – but she missed at least one angle: its emergence as a factor in the Lamont-Lieberman race.
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Wonder If He’ll Catch Lunch With Joe
Ned Lamont will be in D.C. next week for meetings with Democratic Party leaders and supporters.
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Harris Unhinged?
If this Forward article and editorial leave you wanting more on Katherine Harris, check out this story in The New Republic: It’s gratifying to see Republicans acknowledge that Harris is a batty, irrational megalomaniac who’s in way over her head…. And yet, it seems that the full historic implications of this new consensus have not…
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Conservative Rabbis Predict Gay Ban Will Fall, Canadian Shuls Weigh Split With Movement
With leaders of Conservative Judaism predicting an end to the outright ban on gay ordination and same-sex marriage, some of the movement’s more traditional Canadian synagogues are threatening to form a breakaway coalition. Several movement leaders, speaking at an August 24 meeting in New York, said that the ordination of gay rabbis and the sanctioning…
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