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A Decade After Rabin’s Killing, Israeli Democracy Is Thriving
When Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I was sitting with friends in a café at the Jerusalem Cinemateque, enjoying some rare time off from my job. It had been a hectic summer for all of us who worked for the prime minister, and such a break was indeed welcome. People at the café who knew I…
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Stemming the Tide
This week, in synagogues around the world, Jews will read about a rapidly rising water table, a torrent that destroys nearly everyone and everything on the planet. In the story of Noah, this deluge is God’s doing. And after the waters have receded, God promises never again to destroy the world by flood. God does…
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Jerusalem, Groups Launch Campaign To Isolate Iran
In an effort to capitalize on the international outrage over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent call to “wipe Israel off the map,” Israel and several American Jewish organizations have launched a coordinated attack to isolate Iran and force Tehran to renounce its nuclear ambitions. Several Israeli officials and Jewish organizational leaders called for Iran to…
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Looking Anew at Bulgaria’s Jews
A must-see documentary, “The Optimists: The Story of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust,” by filmmakers Jacky and Lisa Comforty, premiered October 10 at the Center for Jewish History. It is the most recent cinematic tribute to the Bulgarians for their heroic efforts on behalf of their fellow (Jewish) Bulgarians. The first…
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Supreme Court Pick Presenting Test for Leading GOP Moderate
The confirmation battle over President Bush’s conservative Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, is likely to pose a daunting political test for the GOP chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter. Bush chose Alito, 55, a federal judge on the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals, to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, following…
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TAKING ACTION
TAKING ACTION For information about financial incentives for buying hybrid cars, see www.hybridcars.com/incentives-legislation.html. For more information on how to replicate Congregation Bet Haverim’s One for Each Night program, visit http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/b/cbhdsl/tikkun_olam/cfl/cfl_index.htm. To find out more about financial incentives for installing wind and solar power, check out www.dsireusa.org. To find out if green power is available in…
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LETTER FROM SOUTH FLORIDA: Thousands of Seniors Are Left Stranded in the Wake of Wilma
Life in South Florida on the holiday of Simchat Torah last week came down to lines. Miles-long lines of vehicles waited to purchase gasoline to fuel generators providing the only power to the millions of households blacked out by Hurricane Wilma. Similarly daunting lines of people waited more-or-less patiently at government distribution centers for deliveries…
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Air Force Rules Rile Republicans
Dozens of Republican lawmakers are pressing the Bush administration to relax a set of new restrictions aimed at curbing religious coercion within the U.S. Air Force. In an October 25 letter to President Bush, 70 Republicans and one Democrat urged him to protect the constitutional rights of Christian military chaplains whose freedom of speech and…
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N.Y. Judge Lashes Out as a Hasidic Feud Gets Physical
A New York state judge lashed out at two warring Hasidic factions after they clashed in a synagogue melee during last week’s holidays. New York Supreme Court Judge Stewart Rosenwasser is presiding in a case in upstate New York involving the supporters of two sons of the grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Moses…
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Israel Scores Diplomatically On Two Fronts
In a rare flurry of positive diplomatic developments for Israel, the United Nations this week passed a strong resolution against archenemy Syria and adopted a groundbreaking statement on Holocaust remembrance, the first resolution ever submitted to the world body by Israel. In Switzerland, meanwhile, steps were taken to accept Israel’s Magen David Adom into the…
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Public Policy Group Taps Liberal Activist in D.C.
WASHINGTON — The Jewish community’s main public-policy umbrella organization has tapped a liberal activist and a former volunteer for John Kerry’s presidential campaign to head its Washington office. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national coordinating body made up of 13 national Jewish agencies and 125 local Jewish community relations councils, has tapped Hadar…
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