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Lady Gaga Calls Her Senators
Call all you want but there’s no one home And you’re not gonna reach my telephone Cause I’m out in the club and I’m sippin that bubb’ And you’re not gonna reach my telephone “Telephone,” performed by Lady Gaga and Beyonce Knowles When she tried to call her senators Thursday, Lady Gaga seemed to be…
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Bagels and Ballots – Friday
-It’s not always sunny in Florida for independent senatorial candidate Charlie Crist. The state’s Republican party released an audit showing that Florida Governor Crist — until recently a Republican — charged to the party over $381,000 expenses not “primarily” related to official party work, including a trip to … Disney World. (Florida Times-Union) -In a…
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Rep. Meek Makes His Case to Florida’s Jews
Six weeks to the November elections, and polls show Democratic Congressman Kendrick Meek trailing way behind Republican Marco Rubio and Governor Charlie Crist in the three-way race for Florida’s vacant Senate seat. On Thursday Meek convened a conference call with reporters from Jewish media outlets to shore up support from what should have been a…
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Yid Lit: Adam Langer
Adam Langer’s novel, “The Thieves of Manhattan” uses an all-too-familiar climate of made-up memoirs as a place to set con games. In this Yid Lit Podcast, Langer talks about writing to Stephen Sondheim, world-class literary hoaxes and why he doesn’t think of himself as a Jewish writer. Read the Forward’s review of “The Thieves of…
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Jewish Palin Fan Takes to the Airwaves
Benyamin Korn, one of Sarah Palin’s most ardent Jewish fans, now has a regularly scheduled news hour aimed at conservative talk radio listeners in Philadelphia. Korn, the founder of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin and former editor of Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent, launched Jewish Independent Talk Radio September 5 on Philadelphia’s 990 AM WNTP. Announcing the…
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Bagels and Ballots – Thursday
–Rahm Emanuel is still mulling a run in the Chicago mayoral race — one that could make him the city’s first Jewish mayor. He even met with potential opponent Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. to talk about it last night: (Chicago Tribune) -We’re keeping an eye on the three-way race for Florida’s senate seat. A new…
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A-Paws! A-Paws!
A-Paws! A-Paws! for Animated Film Delight ‘My Dog Tulip’ and Its Creators, Paul and Sandra Fierlinger My September 2 interview with Paul Fierlinger, who wrote, directed and animated the new film “My Dog Tulip,” and his wife, “Tulip” co-director and co-writer Sandra Fierlinger, who colored this enchanting movie that is showing at the Film Forum,…
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On the Pulpit, Rabbis Earn More Than Christian Clergy
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church sits near the campus of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. The small congregation, with 200 members and a budget of $130,000, is looking for a new pastor, who will be offered a salary and housing stipend worth between $50,000 and $60,000. Such a compensation package would be…
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Eight Months Later, Haiti Struggles as Never Before
It took us several hours to drive from Port-au-Prince to the tiny village of Monwi Mon Ivwa. On rare stretches, the road was flat and paved, occasionally punctuated by a house standing half-finished and empty, a frustrating hint of what could be if Haiti were a normal place. But mostly the road was thick with…
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Cantor Gunning for Another Revolution
Eric Cantor, the lone Jewish Republican in Congress, describes himself as a “minority within a minority.” But now, alongside two fellow congressmen, he is trying to lead a political revolution that will end the days of Republican minority. Known as the Young Guns, Cantor, who is 47, along with Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan and California’s Kevin…
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Grayson Defying Convention in Fla.
One of the highest-profile congressional contests this year is a stark faceoff: a left-wing Jew versus a right-wing Christian. As many Democratic candidates from swing congressional districts move to the center — or even further right — this year, the campaign of Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida promises to challenge the Democratic Party’s predominant strategy…
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