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In Defending Court Pick, Backers Cite Miers’s Faith
As the Bush administration scrambles to counter conservative opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, White House allies are citing her membership in an evangelical Christian church as a key credential. Many conservatives have attacked the selection of Miers, currently White House counsel, as Supreme Court nominee, saying she lacks experience in constitutional…
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Creole Matzo Balls and Other Southern Treats
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South By Marcie Cohen Ferris The University of North Carolina Press, 344 pages, $29.95. * * *| Like the gumbo of its title, Marcie Cohen Ferris’s new book offers a rich stew to savor. In this case, that’s an entirely satisfying mix of Jewish American history, personal…
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The Yom Kippur Pedicure
How can it be, you might ask, that such a travesty came to pass? How is it, I mean, that a woman like me, born and bred of preening Orthodox German-Jewish stock, came one evening two years ago to usher in Yom Kippur, the Holiest of Holy Days, in the most faithless way imaginable: by…
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Holocaust Lawyer Fights Accusation He Hired Underage Austrian Hooker
A prominent Holocaust restitution lawyer, Ed Fagan, is planning a trip to Austria to defend himself against published accusations that he hired an underage prostitute. Several Austrian publications have reported that the state prosecutor in Vienna is looking into contacts that Fagan and other individuals allegedly had with a prostitution ring that involved underage girls…
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‘Values’ of Women To Blame for Low Birthrates, Says Conservative Scholar
As the flagship seminary of Conservative Judaism searches for a new chancellor, a rumored candidate for the position is pressing ahead with his controversial policy pronouncements. In recent weeks, Jack Wertheimer, provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, has advanced a traditionalist assessment of how his movement should address intermarriage and the relatively low…
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White House Considers Syria Sanctions
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is signaling its intention to slap new sanctions on Syria, say congressional sources and Western diplomats. “There is very little doubt in anyone’s mind that more sanctions will soon be imposed,” said a congressional aide who was recently briefed by administration officials. Frustrated by Syria’s failure to block militants from…
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Plea May Affect Aipac Lobbyists’ Cases
WASHINGTON — Jewish organizations are worried that a reported plea bargain involving a former Pentagon official will complicate two former pro-Israel lobbyists’ efforts to defend themselves against charges that they passed on secret information to Israel. The former Pentagon official, Lawrence Franklin, reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing highly classified information to unauthorized…
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Jewish Representative Rises In House’s Republican Ranks
With the indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, is climbing up the GOP leadership ladder. Cantor — who is chief deputy majority whip, the fourth-ranking House leadership post — is gaining added responsibilities as Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, the third-ranking…
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Guantanamo Servicemen To Get Holiday Services
Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay may not give Rosh Hashanah a second thought. But if all goes as planned, a rabbi will visit servicemen stationed at the American base as the Jewish New Year begins. Rabbi Melinda Zalma, a newly minted chaplain for the U.S. Navy, will be the sole chaplain during the High Holy…
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Newsdesk October 7, 2005
Navy Chapel Criticized Conservative Catholic activist William Donohue is accusing the Anti-Defamation League and other church-state separation advocacy groups of hypocrisy for not opposing the construction of a large, federally funded synagogue at Maryland’s U.S. Naval Academy. The Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel was inaugurated earlier this month at the Annapolis Naval…
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Conservatives Slap Fund-raising Group
A fledgling American nonprofit group seeking to raise money for non-Orthodox congregations in Israel is meeting stiff resistance from a fund-raising arm of the Conservative movement. The new group, Kehillot B’ Yachad (“Congregations Together”), said it has compiled a 15,000-person e-mail list from contacts listed on synagogue Web sites. KBY is using the list to…
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