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Reform Jewish Leaders Urge Temples To Forgo Homeland Security Grants
WASHINGTON — The country’s largest synagogue movement is discouraging congregations from seeking federal funds to pay for security improvements, warning that such a step would violate the separation of church and state. At issue is the Homeland Security Appropriations Act, a bill signed into law by President Bush earlier this month, which offers $25 million…
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Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist
From his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in what might be called the intellectual center of Jewish America, Michael Santomauro sends out a daily e-mail digest of what are, for his neighborhood, some unusual views on Judaism. Among them: questions on the Holocaust’s veracity, excoriation of every aspect of Israel’s behavior and questions on…
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Newsdesk October 15, 2004
Cheney Claim Debated Vice President Cheney raised eyebrows in some circles with his claim last week that Saddam Hussein’s removal was a factor in the decrease in terrorist attacks in Israel. “I personally think one of the reasons that we don’t have as many suicide attacks today in Israel as we had in the past…
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Egypt Moves To Boost Security in Sinai
The Egyptian government has decided to ask Israel to amend the peace treaty between the two countries to allow the deployment of trained Egyptian military forces into eastern Sinai to boost security in the area. The move comes in the wake of last week’s deadly car bombings at the Red Coast resorts of Taba and…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Nice Save: During the presidential debate in St. Louis, President Bush made a comment about Israel that cheered his neoconservative Jewish supporters, who prefer his thumb-in-the-eye approach to the Europeans to the multilateralism supported by Senator John Kerry. “You know, I’ve made some decisions on Israel that are unpopular,” Bush said. “I wouldn’t deal with…
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Protestant-Jewish Summit To Address Mideast Policy
With relations between Jewish organizations and mainline Protestant churches arguably at their lowest point in nearly four decades, representatives of both communities are hoping to defuse the increasingly bitter feelings at a two-day interfaith summit in Washington, D.C., next week. The meeting, which for the first time will include both interfaith experts and Middle East…
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Boston Day Schools Get Anonymous $45 Million Gift
A group of anonymous donors has given $45 million to support Jewish day schools in Boston, the largest one-time donation ever made to the city’s Jewish community. The philanthropic gift comes after a decade of booming interest in Jewish day schools, both in terms of enrollments and donations. Nationwide, day school enrollment has almost doubled…
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Rabbis Improve Outreach to Interfaith Families, Survey Finds
With interfaith marriage a growing fact of life in the Jewish community, non-Orthodox rabbis are increasingly attempting to include non-Jewish relatives in life-cycle events, a new first-of-its-kind survey has found. The survey, titled “Rabbis and the Intermarried Family in the Jewish Community,” sponsored by the Jewish Outreach Institute, is based on interviews with 183 Conservative,…
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Laws of the Kingdom
Leadership in the public square springs naturally from the Jewish conception of community and good citizenship. Consider the prophet Jeremiah’s injunction to the Babylonian exiles to “seek the peace of the city to which I have exiled you and pray to the Lord in its behalf; for in the peace thereof you shall have peace.”…
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Krav Maga Method
It’s a pleasure to write about Jonathan Rosen’s fine new “Joy Comes in the Morning,” because it was Rosen, then editor of the Arts & Letters section of the Forward, who hired me to write this column 14 years ago. Unfortunately, not being a book reviewer, I’m forced to limit myself to two words in…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL October 15, 2004
Mothers-in-law have for ages been a matter of concern to folk who are marrying off a daughter. Will the mekhuteneste move in and try to dictate the behavior of her daughter-in-law? Apparently, this is not uncommon. Rarely, however, has anyone tried to write a song depicting the troublesome relationship between a bride’s parents and her…
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