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New York Candidates Court Hasidic Vote
Haredi Jews should vote according to their values, not their pocketbooks, thundered ultra-Orthodox political gadfly Rabbi Yehuda Levin in a fiery Brooklyn speech October 10 in support of New York Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino. Levin had made headlines with his outspoken support for the Tea Party-affiliated Paladino, which he later withdrew. It’s an…
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Israel Is a Campaign Issue, but How Big?
Jewish voters in several key states have been bombarded in recent weeks with ads, leaflets and phone calls trying to convince them that their local congressional candidate is not sufficiently strong in his or her support for Israel. Questioning candidates’ support for Israel is a well-known campaign tactic in districts that have many Jewish voters….
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Should Israel Abandon Policy of Nuclear Ambiguity? A New Book Argues Yes
It’s a policy that has been around for so long that most Israelis and Americans cannot imagine a world without it. For the past four decades, Israel has adhered, almost religiously, to the idea of nuclear ambiguity, or opacity. It has refused to either confirm or deny it has the bomb, and it has repeated…
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Magic and Music
Magic and Music at Elem Gala, Honoring Its Founder, Ann Bialkin The September 28 ELEM/Youth in Distress benefit, held at the Harvard Club and honoring organization founder and chair Ann Bialkin, was an evening of music and magic. NBC’s chief legal analyst, Dan Abrams, hosted. Greetings by ELEM/Israel’s president, Nava Barak, and a video of…
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Editors Note
Careful readers of the Forward will notice something different about the second page of this newspaper. What had been our “Shmooze” page, filled with fun, gossipy tidbits of popular culture, has now become a section devoted to the best of our many blogs on www.forward.com. This is more than a design change. It’s another step…
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Nu, Do We Ask and Tell?
“Don’t ask, don’t tell,” the controversial Clinton-era policy of not allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military, is nearing its end, at least according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. The administration, he said, is committed to changing the policy and the only question is how the repeal of will DADT come…
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Dyeing To Be Holy
Bathers on a northern Israel beach witnessed a strange spectacle in late September, when a group of Orthodox Jews arrived, discussed a number of talmudic passages, and waded into the water, wearing snorkels, to unravel a biblical mystery. As well as demanding that “the Children of Israel make tzitzit on the corners of their garments,”…
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Separation Anxiety
In mid-September, for the first time, I spent several nights away from my daughter, Orli. She is now 20 months, and I’ve barely spent a night away from her, let alone three. The time away got easier as it went on; leaving was the most difficult part. We spoke every night by phone; one evening,…
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Bagels & Ballots: The Governator Jumps In
Pushing to the Finish Line: Today, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee was supposed to add 10 more races to its “Essential Races” list, but instead, plans to add 15, including state senate races in New York and Pennsylvania. With over 6,000 state legislative races across the country — many of which rarely receive attention or…
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Obama’s Sinking Jewish Numbers—Is It Israel?
The American Jewish Committee’s survey of Jewish opinion published yesterday is widely considered the best resource out there for actually gauging the mood of Jewish voters. AJC surveys are non-partisan and, some critics (including Forward columnist and former editor J.J. Goldberg) notwithstanding, have a good reputation throughout the years of providing a fair portrayal of…
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Bagels and Ballots – Tuesday
These Days, Is Anything Safe?: With three weeks left to this campaign season, it’s looking like seats considered safe by Democrats are getting risky: “As Republicans made new investments in at least 10 races across the country, including two Democratic seats here in eastern Ohio, Democratic leaders took steps to pull out of some races…
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