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Questions Raised About Future of Aipac Officials
Well-placed sources in Washington say that America’s most influential pro-Israel lobby and one of its top officials are parting ways. Spokesmen for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee refused to say whether the official, Steve Rosen, who is reportedly under federal investigation, is still employed by the organization. Rosen’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, refused to speak…
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Newsdesk April 22, 2005
Hyde Blasts Israel Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, berated Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres for Israel’s treatment of Christians in the West Bank. Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, enumerated the effects of Israel’s security policies on the dwindling Palestinian Christian community when Peres met privately with the committee two weeks ago….
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UJC Training Women To Be Top Leaders
In an effort to shatter its own glass ceiling, the country’s main Jewish philanthropic organization is tapping women to fill half the slots in a training program for top executives. The United Jewish Communities announced last week that 12 women will be selected to take part in a training program aimed at training future leaders…
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Study Finds Nationwide Increase in Antisemitic Incidents
A wave of antisemitic incidents is raising alarm in the country’s second- and third-largest Jewish communities. Several synagogues in Los Angeles have received almost identical hate mail in recent weeks that has arrived in large manila envelopes addressed to “Jew child molesters” and “Jew murderers.” Hate-filled handwritten messages were scrawled across the envelopes in red…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Congressional Campaign: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is looking to the Jewish community to help it regain control of Congress, tapping Rep. Steve Israel of New York to head up an outreach effort. The campaign is designed to ensure that the House Democratic Caucus “is being aggressive in our message and our appeal to American…
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Why It Pays To Factor Income Into College Admission Policies
FORWARD FORUM A central tenet of the postwar American dream is that a bright young person from any walk of life has the opportunity to improve his or her prospects with a college degree. Veterans used the G.I. Bill to pursue their degrees in the late 1940s and 1950s, and their children followed them into…
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Seder Songs
A favorite feature of the Passover Seder for those not feeling overwhelmed by sleep or food is the music, the songs at the end of the Seder. The Haggada has four of these: “Ki lo Na’eh, Ki Lo Ya’eh”; “Adir Hu”; “Echad Mi Yode’a,” and “Had Gadya.” All four are highly repetitive, and the last…
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A Few Sour Notes Emerge Amid Cheers For New Pope
After the death of Pope John Paul II, many interfaith experts lamented that there would never again be a pontiff forged by a personal confrontation with the Holocaust. They were dead wrong. In tapping Joseph Ratzinger to be the 265th pope since the advent of Christianity two millennia ago, his 115 fellow cardinals selected a…
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Unleavened Dread: Setting the Seder Table’s Empty Places
I could measure my halting, lurching progress toward adulthood through Seders. Three years ago, we were at my parents’ house in Providence, R.I. Tiny Josie dozed on my lap. My dad and my mom each ran one Seder — my dad’s traditional, my mom’s egalitarian — and jockeyed good-naturedly over whose was better. Two years…
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Israeli President Set To Hold Parley On ‘Crisis Situation’ of World Jewry
Israeli President Moshe Katsav is taking the first concrete steps toward forming a new forum of Jewish leaders from across the globe to tackle what he calls the “crisis situation” facing the Jewish world. Katsav’s earlier proposal for a global Jewish parliament has been shelved, primarily because of the difficulty of holding worldwide elections. Instead,…
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The Restaurateur’s Dilemma: To Open or To Close
It was close to midnight on a Sunday night last April when Jose Meirelles ordered his servers at Manhattan’s Le Marais restaurant to put down their trays and start the evening’s real work: preparing the restaurant for Passover. A specially hired crew was slated to arrive any minute to help with a whirlwind, overnight cleaning…
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