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Some Zionist Groups Stoke Fear Of Islam for Political Profit
After the last several months, it should be clear that the controversy over the Park 51 Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero is about more than sensitivity to the families of the 9/11 victims and the sacredness of the site where their loved ones were murdered. In places as far from Lower Manhattan as Murfreesboro,…
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When Violence Overcame a Freedom Struggle
This is the first of three excerpts from Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman’s new book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 23. Before Meir Kahane became the right-wing extremist banned by the Israeli Parliament for racism, he was a…
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A Vine in the Sky
For 12 months of the year, a few steps below the sidewalk, a fig tree grows in nothing more than a polyvinyl container filled with New York City dirt. The canopy of leaves looks about 10 feet high, and every morning, on my way to swim at the 92nd Street Y, I check it out…
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How Exactly Did I Get Here?
The decorative sign above the toilet seat said it all: “In this house lives an old hunter with the finest deer he’s ever bagged.” Gross, I thought. But also a little funny in the way that some things — like kitschy misogynistic messages painted on wood — can make you laugh despite your best effort…
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Bagels and Ballots – Wednesday
-Reading Rahm: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is still playing out the possibility of running to become Chicago’s first Jewish mayor. A recent poll of his own gave Rahmbo a 14-point lead against possible challengers. (NBC) -Oy, Pennsylvania: At a Pennsylvania fundraiser, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who is running against Republican former congressman…
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Abbas Softens on Settlement Freeze
Speaking to a room full of American Jewish leaders on Tuesday evening, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicated that if the moratorium on Israeli settlement building expires as scheduled on Sunday, he would not necessarily quit peace negotiations. “I cannot say that I will leave the negotiations,” Abbas said in a wide-ranging discussion with about 60…
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Sestak (Catholic) Offers Obama (Protestant) A Jewish Embrace
Joe Sestak, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat, wasn’t President Obama’s first choice for the job. The White House and Democratic leadership backed Arlen Specter for another term, in appreciation of his decision last year to cross party lines and join the Democratic side. But things didn’t work out that way. Sestak went on…
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Bagels and Ballots – Tuesday
-Post-Primary Preferences: For weeks, registered voters have stated their preference for Republicans on a generic congressional ballot. But a new Gallup poll shows the two major parties now effectively tied with Democrats winning 46% and Republicans 45%. (Gallup) -Leveling California? Though other recent polls have given a slight lead to Republican Carly Fiorina, the former…
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Bagels and Ballots – Monday
–Eric Cantor, minority whip and congress’s only Jewish Republican, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Tax Fight: GOP Won’t Back Down.” He cites the economic struggles of “small businesses and investors” as a reason why he and the GOP won’t back down in opposing a continuation of federal tax cuts that would exempt those…
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Delaware Jews First to Host Victorious Tea Party Nominee
Members of the Delaware Jewish community did not intend to capture national headlines when they put together their biannual congressional candidates forum. But when the news came out that this would be the first opportunity to see Tea Party sensation Christine O’Donnell in action, the media began pouring into the Wilmington Jewish Community Center to…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: The Tea Party and the Jews; Haiti’s Heartbreak
In this week’s Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with staff writer Nathan Guttman about the implications of the results of the September 14 political primaries, and about our new political blog, MitzVote. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner discusses what she witnessed on her recent reporting trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts…
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