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Anti-Israel Rallies Rock Turkey and Jordan
Thousands of Turkish protesters gathered outside the soccer stadium in Istanbul where Maccabi Tel Aviv was playing against Turkish team Beşiktaş, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans. The protesters yelled “no passage for Zionists” and “Israel is a murderer, get out of Palestine.” Local police were deployed in large numbers around the area, and…
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Israel Tent Chats Coming to College Campuses
The Jewish Agency for Israel and Hillel are erecting white tents on 20 campuses throughout North America to serve as forums to discuss Israel and the Middle East. The “Talk Israel” program will take place Sept. 20 and 21 at universities including the University of California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, George Washington and the University of Maryland….
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Columbia Warned Over Ahmadinejad Invite
An Israeli rights group has warned Columbia University of legal repercussions following an invitation to some students for a dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Members of Columbia’s International Relations Council and Association were invited via e-mail to a private meal Sept. 21 with Ahmadinejad, the school’s Spectator newspaper reported. Some 15 students will attend…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Israeli Diplomats Flee; Big GOP Win; Jewish Pioneers in Utah
This week, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward staff writer Nathan Guttman and Forward Fellow Naomi Zeveloff to discuss Israel’s security and its relationships with the Arab world after protestors knocked down a wall outside of Israel’s embassy in Cairo. Then, Democrat David Weprin was defeated by Republican Bob Turner in a special election…
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Knives Out After Democrats Lose Weiner’s Seat
Democrats from the White House to Congress and the streets of Queens were pointing fingers at one another after the humiliating loss of a longtime Democratic-held seat to Republicans. The Daily News reported that many operatives were blaming Queens party leader Rep. Joe Crowley for picking lackluster candidate David Weprin, who lost miserably to the…
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Redistricting Tosses Two Jewish Democrats Into Los Angeles Street Fight
According to one of its contenders, the fight to represent the newly redrawn 30th congressional district in California’s San Fernando Valley may be framed as a peculiarly Los Angeles kind of class struggle: rich Hollywood Jews versus working folks in the Valley. “This whole race is a Valley thing,” Rep. Brad Sherman told the Forward…
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Decision Day in Fight for Weiner’s Seat
Voters go to the polls today in the fight between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner for Anthony Weiner’s old Congressional seat. Opinion polls show a surprisingly close race between Weprin, considered a safe choice, and Turner, who ran against Weiner before. Turner closed his campaign with a flurry of TV ads touting his…
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Blogger Carves Out Niche Baring Israeli Intel Secrets
Among progressives interested in Israel, Richard Silverstein has been a household name for years, using his daily blog posts to expose Israeli intelligence secrets while lobbing harsh attacks from left field against the Jewish state. But on September 6, a Page One story in The New York Times put Silverstein’s work for the first time…
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Rift Between Israel and Turkey Puts White House on the Spot
For the Obama administration, no day highlighted the quandary it faces in the downward spiral between Israel and Turkey more than September 2. In one day, Ankara took a step viewed as crucial to confronting Iran by Washington, and no doubt welcomed by Israel, as well; and a separate step seen as hostile in the…
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Life Chronicles
Joann Sfar’s Film “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life”: An Homage to a French-Jewish Star French comics artist Sfar, author of “The Rabbi’s Cat” (Pantheon Books, 2005) said, “I was raised by two powerful personalities: my Algerian-born grandfather and Polish-born grandfather. I tried to survive between those two dominant gorillas.” I blinked, and asked him, “Do you…
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Iowa Town Settles Orthodox Landlord’s Discrimination Suit
The city of Postville, Iowa, has settled a lawsuit charging it with discrimination against an Orthodox Jewish landlord who housed undocumented workers employed by the former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse. The city and several local officials have agreed to pay Gabay Menahem $450,000 and to hold a community workshop on diversity issues; however, they have not…
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