That’s right – former President Bill Clinton gives one major speech on the fifth anniversary of 9-11 and it is before United Jewish Communities’ International Lion of Judah Conference. The match-maker was none other than Susie Stern, chair of the board of directors of the UJA-Federation of New York, and veteran of Bill’s ‘92 campaign…
We thought it was a bit odd when we received an invitation (pasted below) from the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation that seemed to imply that the Congressional Black Caucus was co-hosting a one-sided “Middle East Briefing” as part of the CBC’s Annual Legislative Conference. The Sept. 9 event, it turns out, was unofficial, and…
Apparently in response to the candidacies of Tennessee state senator Steve Cohen and New York City Councilman David Yassky, the Congressional Black Caucus has reiterated its position that only African-American legislators may be counted as full, voting members in the organization. Both Cohen and Yassky are seeking to serve majority-minority districts in the U.S. House…
Lieberman says there’s plenty of room up on the debate stage. Candidates in other races are playing the Lamont-Lieberman card. More fighting over Iraq. Ooops. It looks like Ned Lamont forgot that he really did think Senator Lieberman was right to scold Bill Clinton about Monica Lewinsky. Compare that Lieberman, who is standing firm on…
Now that the war has ended, the next battle is over how to pay the bills. “The budget I am presenting today is not the one I intended to present… before the war,” said Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson, sounding remarkably tired as he described his proposal for next year’s annual budget to the media on…
WASHINGTON — An influential Jewish lawmaker appears to have the upper hand in Maryland’s Democratic senatorial primary, but liberal observers worry that he could lose African American voters when he runs up against a well-known black Republican in the general election. The Democratic race pits one of Baltimore’s best-known Jewish figures, Rep. Ben Cardin, against…
The evening of August 30 was a dark one for the kosher food industry. First, a group of rabbis in New York discovered boxes upon boxes of nonkosher meat in the warehouse of a major kosher meat distributor. At roughly the same time, in Pennsylvania, federal agents seized 726 pounds of marijuana at a kosher…
WASHINGTON — With the Palestinian government on the verge of a complete breakdown, pressure is mounting on the ruling Hamas movement to form a unity government with its Fatah rivals, who support a two-state solution. In the past, the Bush administration has advised Fatah’s leader, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, against a formal partnership with…
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…
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.”…
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…
