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Students Pow-wow in Republic of Palau
Last Thursday afternoon, Continental Flight #0014 landed at Newark Airport, and among the passengers streaming out of the plane was a group of 10 teenage boys returning from winter break in the North Pacific. However, this was no ordinary vacation. The teenagers were Orthodox students from the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (Yeshiva University High School…
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Two National Organizations See Departures at the Top
As the battle over President Bush’s second term agenda heats up, two of the most important Jewish organizations dealing with domestic policy are losing top staff members who would have been responsible for formulating a response to the administration’s expected cuts in federal spending on social welfare programs. United Jewish Communities, the national roof body…
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VIP Crush at King Event
Dais-designated New York Post columnist Cindy Adams — on line with power attorney Barry Slotnick for the VIP reception at the January 17 Congress of Racial Equality Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Living the Dream 2005” dinner — was miffed because her red plastic VIP admission bracelet was delayed and the promised-to-be-there recipient of CORE’s…
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Poll Finds Jewish Political Gap
WASHINGTON — The Bible Belt might represent the heart of Bush country, but a new study suggests that even among Jews, blue quickly turns to red at the sanctuary door. Released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the new study found that while Jews generally tend to be more liberal than any…
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Feigning Sanity at Bellevue
My first rotation as a medical student is psychiatry, that branch of medicine that patrols the border between sane and insane. But as is well known to any observer of human behavior, the sane are sane up until the point when you start looking at them with an analytic eye. Then everyone seems to need…
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Palestinians, Israelis To Seek Additional American Aid
WASHINGTON — As President Bush plans to ask Congress for additional aid for the Palestinian Authority, Israel is preparing the ground for its own supplemental request to help underwrite its planned withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Israel will ask for funds to establish a series of new crossing points along its…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Hailing Howard: About 400 Democratic activists came out Sunday to hear former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in Manhattan at SEIU 1199’s union hall. Dean, who appeared to have sewed up the race to head the Democratic National Committee as the Forward went to press, seemed to have changed nothing from the standard red-meat stump speech…
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French Shoah Case May Get New Push
Representatives of about 600 Holocaust survivors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their complaint accusing France’s national railroad company of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by knowingly deporting tens of thousands of Jews. The five-year-old case, Abrams v. Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais, is…
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A Fair and Balanced Look At Al Franken
As political satirists go, Al Franken is in a league of his own. Five Emmy Awards reveal his sublime impact on “Saturday Night Live” as one of its original writers and later as a producer and performer. His books, including “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot” and “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell…
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Differences About Mideast Policy Divide U.S. Communal Groups
WASHINGTON — Sometimes, it seems, even good news is bad news when it comes to organized Jewish life. As Israel’s government prepares to pull out of Gaza and parts of the West Bank and resume talks with the Palestinians, American Jewish communal leaders are striving to protect their community from polarizing and to create a…
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Cheney Ratchets Up the Pressure on Iran Over Nukes
In a week rife with speculation about America’s plans to attack Iran, Vice President Richard Cheney stepped up the pressure on Tehran by declaring that Israel might strike Iran’s nuclear facilities if ongoing diplomatic efforts fail. In response to a question by radio talk-show host Don Imus about the possibility of Israeli action, Cheney said,…
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