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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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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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Senate Fight Highlights Evangelicals’ Rise in GOP
The movement to prevent Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the nation’s senior Republican Jewish lawmaker, from assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee is highlighting the ascendance of evangelicals in the Republican Party — and the loss of power of moderate Northeasterners. Since Specter, a moderate pro-choice lawmaker, made post-election comments noting that anti-abortion…
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Nuclear Accord Could Open Door To Re-engagement With Tehran
On Monday, Iran agreed to suspend its nuclear-enrichment program. In return, England, France and Germany agreed not to support taking the matter to the United Nations Security Council, as the United States has been seeking. Will the European gamble with Tehran pay off? The proof, as they say, will be in the pudding. Over the…
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European Agreement Will Fail To Stop Iran From Getting WMDs, Critics Warn
This week’s nuclear deal between Iran and three European countries has triggered a wave of criticism from Israeli and Jewish communal officials, who warn that the pact will fail to halt Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran’s agreement with France, Germany and England requires Tehran to immediately freeze its uranium enrichment activities pending negotiations on…
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Lebanese Border Skirmishes Seen as West Bank Power Play
TEL AVIV — While Israeli politics went into a holding pattern this week, awaiting leadership changes in the post-Arafat Palestinian Authority — and in post-election Washington — other players in the region were seizing the initiative, beginning with Iran and Hezbollah. Intelligence sources told the Forward that Hezbollah had initiated a string of recent provocations…
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‘Satanic Verses’ and Rabbinic Law Cross Paths at Yeshiva University
It was a meeting of minds as congenial as it was unlikely. Author Salman Rushdie, a secularist critic of religious fundamentalism, paid a visit to the main New York campus of Yeshiva University, the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy. He met with a small group of students in the afternoon and then delivered a lecture…
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Federations Draft ‘Stop Doing’ List
CLEVELAND — There was a “Prime Minister’s Dinner” Sunday night, but no prime minister. There was a “Breakfast With the Legend” scheduled for Monday, but the legend — Israel’s Shimon Peres — didn’t show up. It was a four-day gathering of the American Jewish community’s top organizers and fund raisers, but the iconic moment might…
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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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