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Y.U. Chief’s Quiet Gambit Creates Space for Change
Richard Joel, president of Yeshiva University, will not be in attendance when hundreds of Orthodox liberals gather Sunday in New York for the biennial Edah conference. The official explanation: He has a previously scheduled out-of-town fund-raising event. Joel’s absence, however, is likely to be interpreted by many attendees as a capitulation to right-wing rabbis at…
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AJCommittee Opposes GOP Senate Plan
WASHINGTON — The campaign to stop Senate Republicans from banning filibusters on federal judicial nominees received a boost this week from an influential Jewish civil-rights agency. After sitting on the fence for months, the American Jewish Committee decided to oppose changes to the Senate filibuster regulations proposed by GOP leaders. The proposed changes are aimed…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Gannon Fire: The conservative Web site linked to the latest White House propaganda scandal was touched by an earlier controversy: In 2003 it frequently published a columnist accused by critics of trafficking in antisemitism. The Web site, GOPUSA, is the main outlet for Talon News Service, which until recently employed the disgraced White House reporter…
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Protestant Churches Consider Anti-Israel Divestment
Even as Israeli and Palestinian leaders talk of a breakthrough, two more mainline Protestant denominations — the United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ — are now weighing divestment proposals aimed at pressuring Israel to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank. The Presbyterian Church (USA) approved a plan last summer to begin the…
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Newsdesk February 18, 2005
Army Chief Is Out Israel’s Defense Ministry announced that the army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya’alon, will retire in July, just days before the disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank is to begin. Ya’alon will have completed the standard three-year term. Prime Minister Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided against…
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UJC Exec Rebuffs Critical Study as Work of ‘Naysayers’
An ambitious study of the United Jewish Communities by two top academics, exploring the charitable giant’s initial stumbles and recommending course corrections, has won a dismissive response from the organization’s chief executive. The study, released February 4, is the product of nearly 90 interviews with founders and participants in the famously troubled organization, which was…
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Rice Crowns ‘President Abbas’
Can a 15,000 mile round trip be remembered for a single word? It probably will be in regard to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah, the capital of the P.A. In her two days in the region, the secretary of state, who otherwise talked in the usual platitudes, signaled the…
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It’s ‘One Nation Under God,’ Or America Goes Under
One of the most important lessons I learned during my run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 is that the bonds uniting America’s Jews and Christians are far stronger than any strains that might divide us. I also learned that preventing this fact from becoming known by both Jews and Christians seems an almost…
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker… Hoping To Stave Off the Valentine’s Day Blues, the Hapless Jewish Writer Seeks Professional Help
Valentine’s Day can summon terrible sadness in Hapless Jews. Last Valentine’s Day, the Hapless Jewish Writer spent the day despairing over his ex. The Hapless Jewish Writer’s girlfriend ended their relationship at an Indian restaurant December 7 — a date that will live in infamy. “I love you,” his treacherous blonde-haired vixen declared. “I’m just…
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Shlemiel, Shlemazel: Left, Right Infuriated (by Peres)
The Yiddish term “shlemazel” has been broadcast into tens of millions of American homes during the last three decades, via the popular 1970s comedy hit “Laverne & Shirley” — apparently without incident. But when Israel’s vice premier, Shimon Peres, dismissed a massive right-wing anti-disengagement demonstration as a “rally of shlemazels” last week, he was reproached…
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Tapping Into Her Inner J.A.P.
Talk about embracing the problems. The latest thing to come to Los Angeles is “Coke-free J.A.P.,” a one-woman show in which 31-year-old writer and actress Fielding (née Elizabeth) Edlow brings to life a potty-mouthed, newly sober, cocaine-craving self-described Jewish American princess. The character, Sage Saperstein, is a 22-year-old J.A.P. She is also, by her own…
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