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Welcoming a Latter-day de Tocqueville
In his signature black suit — white chemise empesée open to the sternum — and with D’Artagnan-esque flair, French celebrity intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy held court at a January 27 reception in his honor, hosted by France’s ambassador to the United States, Jean-David Levitte and co-hosted at New York’s French consulate by France’s consul general, François…
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Behind Tough Talk, Israel Torn on Hamas
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, visiting Cairo this week, refused to confirm or deny a controversial New York Times report that the United States and Israel were discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government and force new elections. “Stories break every morning,” Mofaz told reporters after his February 14 meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. “I…
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Stem-cell Issue Viewed as Pitfall for Republicans
WASHINGTON — Democrats are seeking to make embryonic stem-cell research a key issue in the 2006 midterm elections, in a move that is underscoring the party’s closeness with the Jewish community on so-called values questions. This week, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a strategy memo arguing that “stem-cell research could define ’06 races.” The…
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Neoconservatives, Evangelicals Join Liberals on Energy
Two pillars of support for President Bush’s Iraq policy — neoconservative foreign policy hawks and evangelical Christians — have begun lining up with liberals and environmentalists in challenging the White House’s energy policy. The issue gained national attention in recent weeks, after President Bush declared in the State of the Union address that the United…
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Concerns Mounting Over Fate of Iranian Jewry
With international tensions at a fever pitch over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the violent reaction in Tehran to the European cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad, concerns are rising about the fate of the Iranian Jewish community after its departing head took an unusual public swipe at the president of the Islamic Republic. Haroun Yeshaya,…
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Vote To Divest Seen Having Little Effect
When the Church of England’s main legislative body voted last week to divest from companies whose products are used by Israel in the “occupied territories,” Jewish groups were quick to offer condemnation. Missing, however, was the sense of alarm that greeted the June 2004 decision by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to start the divestment process…
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Palestinian Americans Push Religious Pluralism in P.A.
WASHINGTON — Palestinian American activists are vowing to lobby Hamas against turning the West Bank and Gaza into an Islamic theocracy. Anxious about the victory of the Islamic fundamentalist group in last month’s Palestinian parliamentary elections, Palestinian American leaders say that they will push for laws favoring American-style church-state separation, pluralism, equality and inclusiveness. “We…
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Shoah Cartoon Withdrawn
An Australian cartoonist said that two of his old works dealing with the Holocaust were entered into an Iranian newspaper contest without his permission. Michael Leunig, whose Holocaust cartoons were rejected for publication in Australia in 2002, said Tuesday that he had discovered they were submitted to Iran’s Hamshahri newspaper. “This is a fraud and…
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Chinese Scholar of Judaic Studies Urges Closer Ties
In the same week that China handed Israel a major diplomatic victory by agreeing to allow the isssue of Iran’s nuclear weapons program to be reported to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions, China’s leading scholar of Judaic studies urged Jews and Jewish organizations to seek a stronger relationship with China. Xu Xin,…
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After a Hiatus, Jewish Life Returns to West Philly
Synagogues used to be a common sight in the historically Jewish neighborhood of West Philadelphia. But when congregation Kol Tzedek opened its doors recently, it was the first time that a synagogue had operated in the neighborhood in more than a decade. West Philadelphia was once a stronghold. Jewish life flourished there until the 1960s,…
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Now Shmear This
Jane Civins of Cranston, R.I., sent me a copy of The Baker’s Catalogue, a mail-order business run out of White River Junction, Vt. The company’s many products include “Spreadable N.Y. Chocolate Blackout Schmear” ($6.95 for a 16 oz. can). This catalog also has a recipe for chocolate blackout cake — made, naturally, with the aforementioned…
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