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End Insurgency in Iraq By Giving Sunnis Fighting Chance in Politics
The agonizing effort to form a post-election government in Iraq is largely over, but the struggle to bring an end to the Sunni Arab-led insurgency remains a crisis. Until that battle is won, the safety and normality so many Iraqis crave, the effective democratic government they deserve and the economic recovery they desperately need cannot…
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The Bar Mitzvah: A Universe of Fountain Pens
Next month, Forward contributor Mark Oppenheimer will be release his second book, “Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America”(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Below are excerpts from three of its chapters. The first is devoted to a thoughtful girl from New Haven, Conn.; the second, a bar/bat mitzvah tutor from Tampa, Fla.,…
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O.U. To Support Stem-cell Bill
The Orthodox Union is lending its support to a contentious House bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. The bill, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, sponsored by Rep. Michael Castle, a Delaware Republican, and by Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, seeks to extend federal funding to research on…
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At the Waldorf-Astoria, Lasers –– and Lots of Love –– for Lily Safra
“I want [Lily] Safra’s life, her fire, her clothes, her friends,” said “Good Morning America” anchor and emcee Diane Sawyer to the International Sephardic Education Foundation’s 650 benefit guests at its April 19 gala. “Her circle of family and friends stretches across countries and continents,” Sawyer said of the petite philanthropic Safra, who with her…
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Scandal Over Proselytizing Hits Air Force
The U.S. Air Force Academy is embroiled in a growing scandal over alleged religious coercion, following an investigation triggered by complaints from a Jewish student distressed over evangelical Christian proselytizing. Earlier this year, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based advocacy group launched an investigation. Its report alleges that academy leaders, including…
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Why Is Medicaid Ailing?
Medicaid is a program that was introduced in 1965 as a piece of companion legislation to Medicare, which was effected the same year. Medicare and Medicaid were different in two important respects. First, Medicare was based on age — 65 or older. Medicaid was based on need. Second, the federal government ran Medicare directly; Medicaid…
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Possible Bush Pick Irks Neocons
Neo-conservatives are reportedly marshaling forces against the possible appointment of an ideological opponent as ambassador to the European Union. C. Boyden Gray, who was White House counsel in the administration of George H.W. Bush, is a top contender to be named to the increasingly important diplomatic position in Brussels. This is said to have angered…
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Aipac Probe To Focus on Meetings With Reporter, Diplomat
washington — conversations that two staffers at the most influential pro-israel lobbying organization in washington had with a reporter and an israeli diplomat appear to be a focus of an american government investigation that could lead to espionage charges. There is mounting evidence that the government plans to indict two former officials at the American…
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Low Profile Hurting Abbas in Congress
WASHINGTON — For Senator Joseph Biden, trying to help Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has been a priority — and a frustration — for the past six months. Biden, a Delaware Democrat and arguably his party’s most respected voice on foreign affairs, met with Abbas in January, on the eve of the Palestinian presidential election….
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Basque Twist Tarnishes Jerusalem’s ‘Gold’
TEL AVIV — To Israelis, Independence Day is by tradition a day of accounting. They learn how many of them there are (6.9 million last week — 76% of them Jewish — the Central Bureau of Statistics announced). They decide how they wish to be represented (in endless debates over who will win the prestigious…
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Hang Up Those Togas, Stop Up That Keg!
Leon Berg remembers a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi knocking on the door of his fraternity bedroom in College Park, Md., one Saturday morning in the 1970s. Berg was otherwise engaged, to use a euphemism, and chased away the rabbi. Undeterred, the rabbi would periodically visit the brothers at Alpha Epsilon Pi — a Jewish fraternity house…
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