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Lieberman Open to Cabinet Position
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut — the leader of the hawkish “Scoop Jackson” wing of the Democratic Party — is responding positively to the suggestion that President Bush offer him a post in his Cabinet. On Sunday, asked by interviewer Chris Wallace on Fox News whether he would accept such a position, Lieberman replied, “I’d…
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Rice, Hadley Appointments Cheered
WASHINGTON — Israeli officials and Jewish organizations in the United States were cheering President Bush’s decision to make Condoleezza Rice the next secretary of state and elevate her deputy, Stephen Hadley, to the post of national security advisor. “I know them both,” Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Daniel Ayalon, told the Forward. “I have known them…
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Jerusalem Post To Change Hands
Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications Corp. and Israeli media association Mirkaei Tikshoret Group are set to take over The Jerusalem Post. Each media group will own 50% of the newspaper, as well as The Jerusalem Report magazine and other properties, according to media accounts. The sale, by Hollinger International, is believed to be for…
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When Religion, Politics Mix
While most of the country was heatedly engaged in the election clashes over Iraq and the economy, a movement of white Evangelicals or “Born Again Christians,” organized around “moral values” — namely, opposition to abortion and gay marriages — came to play a decisive role in the re-election of George Bush. When voters were asked…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 19, 2004
On the 20th yahrzeit of Rokhl Fishman, the pages of the Forverts dedicated to “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” featured this lyrical young poetess and her works. Born in Philadelphia in 1935, she was an activist in the Workmen’s Circle and in Zionist movements. She first began to be published in Der Nayer Dor (The New…
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When the Dog Dies
What was Israeli Knesset member Inbal Gavrieli (Likud) referring to last week when she said to Knesset member Ahmed Tibi (The Democratic Front for Peace), prior to a parliamentary vote of no-confidence in the Likud government, “It’s worth your while to be paired with me, because you’ll want to be paired yourself when the dog…
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Forward 50 (Correction)
The Forward 50 entry in the November 12 issue on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mentioned that she contributed to a recently published collection of essays, but misidentified the book. The correct title is “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” (Jewish Lights).
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Presbyterians Dismiss Officials After Meeting With Hezbollah
Reeling from controversy over its decision to divest selectively from Israel, the Presbyterian Church (USA) fired two officials who helped organize a recent meeting with Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant organization branded by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The church also received a threatening letter last week promising arson attacks against its houses…
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Charity Gets by With a Little Help From a Friend
What does it take to join together a rock legend with a Jewish women’s charity? A stapler, of course. As part of an online charity auction sponsored by office-supply giant Staples, Ringo Starr has autographed a stapler that will be up for bid on the company’s Web site (www.staples.com) from November 16 to December 6….
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Donors Mobilize Resources To Ease Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis
When Dora Apsan Sorell, 83, saw a newscast in August about the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, it conjured up horrific memories of her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Earlier that same day, Sorell, a retired doctor, had received a reparations check for the slave labor she did during the war. With the images of…
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Cancer Fund Capitalizes on Nobel Prizes
When Israeli scientists Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko won the Nobel Prize in chemistry last month, plenty of people had reason to celebrate. Beyond the two researchers, all Israelis can take pride in the country’s first Nobel science prize. Cancer patients everywhere can be heartened by the breakthrough research that earned the pair such an…
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