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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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UJC Waging Limited Fight Against Cuts
WASHINGTON — As Congress completes plans to cut deeply into programs that provide basic assistance to low-income families and vulnerable individuals, United Jewish Communities, the Jewish community’s main provider of social services, is focusing on a narrow lobbying agenda on Capitol Hill. The organization is not mobilizing its large network of local federations to oppose…
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Libby Played Leading Role on Foreign Policy Decisions
WASHINGTON — With the indictment and subsequent resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, the Bush administration has lost its most influential Jewish foreign-policy maker, Washington insiders say. Following the departure over the summer of top Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, no Jewish official in the administration had…
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Peru’s Truth Commission Draws Threats
LIMA, Peru – Salomon Lerner sometimes faced schoolyard taunts as a boy in southern Peru 50 years ago. “Other boys would call me ‘Jew’ or say the Jews killed Christ,” Lerner recalled in an interview. But he had not faced antisemitism since then — until recently. Now he is under attack for his role as…
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David C. Kogen, JTS Administrator
Rabbi David C. Kogen, vice chancellor emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary, died October 19. He was 86 years old. Ordained at JTS in 1946, Kogen joined its administration in 1958 as assistant to the chancellor and assistant professor in practical theology. He became vice chancellor in 1966. “Rabbi Kogen was a man whose dignity…
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Newsdesk November 4, 2005
Teacher Shot at Shul A teenager teaching children at a synagogue in Amarillo, Texas, was shot to death by a woman, who then killed herself. Police said that Eloise Evans, 50, walked into a classroom in Temple B’nai Israel on Sunday morning and told two young children to leave. She drew a handgun and shot…
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