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Polling Preference: Did President Bush peak among Jewish voters last December? That’s the inference of a new survey showing that despite Republican attempts to woo Jewish voters, Jews retain an overwhelming loyalty to the Democratic ticket. The poll, done for the National Jewish Democratic Council by the Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, found Senator John…
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Aide’s Security Post Disputed
Since Golan Cipel’s allegations against New Jersey Governor James McGreevey surfaced, media reports have asserted that McGreevey had tapped the Israeli in January 2002 to head the state’s new homeland security effort — leaving the aide in charge of protecting the lives of the Garden State’s 6 million residents only months after the September 11…
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A Yearly Conundrum
Readers Ze’ev Orzech and Seth Cohen have written separately to inquire about the names of the months in the Hebrew calendar. Mr. Orzech especially wants to know about the calendar of the “Qumran sect” —which, he writes, “used a completely different set of names for their months.” Mr. Cohen inquires how it can be that,…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
A new Democratic poll suggests that Republicans are failing to improve on the anemic 21% of the Jewish vote garnered by President Bush in 2000. But if they make progress, it will be with the help of a cadre of prominent GOP insiders, including Lewis Eisenberg, co-chairman of the convention’s host committee. Eisenberg, a former…
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The Meaning of Suffering, From the Farms of Darfur
The numbers reeled off about Darfur tell their own story: more than 1 million displaced people, almost 200,000 refugees, 30,000 dead, all in just 18 months. All of this death and destruction, the result of a brutal Sudanese government crackdown on a rebel insurgency. But as with so many immense tragedies, the scale of the…
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Furor Grows Over Cheney Remarks on Pearl Murder
Following a controversial speech by Vice President Dick Cheney, the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is urging Democrats and Republicans to refrain from turning his son’s death into a political football. Judea Pearl expressed his sentiments after Cheney’s August 12 speech, in which the vice president blasted Democratic presidential nominee Senator…
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Group Delays Appointment Of Diplomat
The appointment of Alon Pinkas to head the American Jewish Congress was put on hold this week pending resolution in Jerusalem of accusations that the former high-profile Israeli diplomat violated his country’s civil-service regulations. The AJCongress decision comes after the Israeli press reported that Civil Service Commissioner Shmuel Hollander was considering criminal proceedings against Pinkas…
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Middle East policy resolution adopted by the Union for Reform Judaism (correction)
A front-page headline in last week’s Forward misstated the substance of a Middle East policy resolution adopted by the Union for Reform Judaism and communicated last week in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell. The Reform movement strongly endorsed Prime Minister Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan, while separately urging the administration to increase its…
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Olympic Spirit Drives Interfaith Meeting
A delegation of rabbis flew to Athens this week in an effort to bring the positive Olympic spirit to the contentious arena of religious relations. But it appears that this unprecedented endeavor will require some Olympic-class heavy lifting. The rabbis, all interfaith experts, were invited by leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church to meet with…
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Newsdesk August 13, 2004
N.Z. Slams Antisemitism New Zealand’s Parliament unanimously passed a statement Tuesday condemning all forms of antisemitism and racism. The move came days after 95 headstones were toppled in the Jewish cemetery near the capital, Wellington. The cemetery’s chapel, used for prayers before burials, was gutted by fire, leaving only swastika-etched walls standing. Meanwhile, in the…
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Netanyahu’s Budget Riles Left, Threatens Unity Talks
TEL AVIV — Benjamin Netanyahu, the spoiler of Ariel Sharon’s Cabinet, managed this week to throw Israeli politics into turmoil by pulling one of his most unexpected stunts ever: bringing in a 2005 state budget framework on time. Netanyahu’s draft budget, a Thatcherite mix of privatization and spending cuts, is winning plaudits from economists and…
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