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Kerry’s Plan Is Dangerous
When I accompanied George W. Bush on his first trip to Israel in 1998, I had no inkling he would one day lead a global coalition to conquer terrorism. During that trip, we both saw threats that seemed remote to most Americans but were part of daily life in Israel. In the Middle East’s only…
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Kerry Rails Against Bush on Holocaust Restitution
Stepping up his bid for Jewish votes in Florida, Senator John Kerry accused the Bush administration Monday of “dragging its feet” on the contentious Hungarian Gold Train case, a Holocaust restitution suit against America’s government that is moving through federal court in Miami. Hungarian Holocaust survivors brought the class-action case in 2001. They are seeking…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — With polls showing that this most crucial of swing states could once again determine the presidency, both the Bush and Kerry campaigns are bombarding the region with high-profile emissaries in an effort to boost Jewish support. The frenzied push to harvest Jewish votes comes in a state in which Bush won by…
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Groups Quietly Root for Dems In Senate Races
WASHINGTON — With polls showing Democratic congressional candidates gaining ground in several states, officials at Jewish organizations are quietly rooting for an end to Republican control of the Senate. The focus on the Senate, which the GOP controls with 51 votes, comes as many Jewish communal organizations have voiced strong approval for President Bush’s policies…
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In Gaza Face-off, Sharon Shows Foes Who’s Boss
JERUSALEM — For a day as historic as this one, the scene last Tuesday was almost comic: Ariel Sharon, facing the most crucial vote of his present term as prime minister, sat stoically at his usual place in the Knesset, eyes forward, hardly blinking. The four ministers challenging him, including finance minister and heir apparent…
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Rabbi Is in Training For the Long Run
SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a long, strange, wonderful run for Rabbi Lisa Gelber. Literally. The 36-year-old associate dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School in New York ran a marathon through San Francisco last Sunday, physically expressing her spiritual passions: celebrating women’s role in the rabbinate, pursuing cures for blood cancers and…
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Marine Faces Tough Fight Despite GOP Sex Scandal
David Ashe, a Democrat running for Congress in a heavily Republican district in Virginia, knows the difference between action and lip service. After the September 11 attacks, Ashe, then a Marine lawyer, served in Kuwait and then Iraq, where he worked to reform the country’s corrupt legal system. But on the campaign trail back home,…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Off to the Races: How’s this for a feel-good horse-race story? Most Jewish candidates running for Congress this year will win. All of the 30 incumbent Jewish senators and congressmen running for re-election are favored to retain their seats, with the notable exception of one. That’s Rep. Martin Frost of Texas, who has gotten “hammered,”…
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Voters Turn Nasty As Passions Rage Over Election
A great deal of ink has been spilled over whether a substantial number of Jews will move to the Republican column in this election. But while the recent studies don’t show any major shifts, there are at least some new phenomena among Jewish voters in this year’s election: spitting, vandalizing and making obscene gestures. As…
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Israel Launches Foray Into Gaza
Less than a week after endings its 17-day Operation Days of Repentance in northern Gaza, Israel this week launched a new operation in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, aimed at ending mortar fire on the nearby Gush Katif settlements. Sixteen Palestinians were killed and dozens injured on the operation’s first day, October 24,…
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Jewish Agency To Boost Youth Spending
The Jewish Agency for Israel has voted a significant boost in the resources it invests in forging ties between Jewish youth abroad and young Israelis, according to a strategic plan approved this week by the agency’s board of governors. The board convened its quarterly meeting October 25 in Jerusalem, with an agenda topped by plans…
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