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Jailed Reporter Draws Ire of Left, Right
It’s been a rough stretch for Judith Miller. The New York Times reporter has been sitting in a Virginia jail for the past week for refusing to name her confidential sources to the prosecutor investigating the Bush administration “outing” of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. Now, to compound the indignity, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Miller —…
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How Long Will We Be in Iraq?
The latest news on how long the United States will continue to wage its war in Iraq is profoundly disturbing, because of both what it says and who is saying it. The speaker is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The essence of his statement was summarized recently in the newspapers when Rumsfeld said the insurgency…
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Paul M. Steinberg, HUC-JIR Official
Paul M. Steinberg, Eleanor Sinsheimer distinguished service professor of Jewish religious education and human relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, died July 8 in New York after battling cancer for several years. He was 79. Steinberg served as teacher, mentor, dean and vice president at the College-Institute schools in New York and Jerusalem,…
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Effort Eyed To Combat Divestment
In an effort to combat the growing mainline Protestant efforts to divest from Israel, a leading Jewish civil-rights organization is weighing the creation of a new interfaith coalition uniting liberal and conservative Christians. A key piece of the plan, being considered by the American Jewish Congress, would be the recruitment of liberal Protestants to protest…
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Critics Charge JTS Board With Power Play in Search
Board members of the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism have executed what critics are describing as a power play aimed at limiting the say of the faculty and other arms of the movement in selecting a new leader. Movement insiders say the maneuvering could tilt the selection in a more traditionalist direction. Last month, the…
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Jewish Groups Backing Away From Talk of Opposing Court Pick
WASHINGTON — As rumors escalate of additional Supreme Court retirements, officials at Jewish organizations say they think it is increasingly unlikely that they will directly oppose or endorse any of the President Bush’s nominees. Bush is expected soon to nominate a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In recent days, Washington has been abuzz…
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GOP Swings at Soros Over Baseball Bid
In the latest GOP attack on George Soros, Republicans are trying to dissuade Major League Baseball from selling the Washington Nationals to an ownership group linked to the billionaire financier — with one lawmaker appearing to paint Soros as a foreigner who is unwelcome in Washington. The controversy started last week when several Republicans, including…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL July 8, 2005
Murray Meld is an active Yiddishist who lives in Seattle. On several occasions over the past few years, he and his wife have submitted their works to Der Vinkl. Now we are pleased to add to their contributions with a poem written in English by Meld’s daughter. Murray has translated the poem into Yiddish. He…
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Dean Plans To Visit Israel, Political Baggage in Tow
In his first trip to the Middle East as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean will be traveling to Israel this fall with a Jewish organization. Dean, who became the DNC chairman in February, will take the six-day trip in September with the National Jewish Democratic Council. Democrats are noting that the September…
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Children’s Book Offers Bilingual Avian Odyssey
David Weintraub, executive director of The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, lists among his organization’s goals “making the old language new again” and “fostering Jewish cultural continuance over the generations.” To this end, Weintraub and Rae Ann Harris, a onetime publicist who passed away in 2002, developed “Sereena’s Secret: Searching for Home,” a Yiddish-English…
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Senator in Flap Over Nominee
A conservative activist is coming under fire for claiming that a Jewish senator is blocking an Arab American judicial nominee because of his ethnicity. Victoria Toensing, a Washington attorney who sometimes speaks on behalf of the conservative judicial advocacy group Committee for Justice, reportedly accused Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, of “executing a vendetta”…
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