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AIPAC Gets Down and Dirty in Pushback vs. Defamation Suit
The espionage case against two senior officials of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington was dropped last year. But it has not been forgotten, and it’s now threatening to draw the lobby into new depths of mudslinging. Papers filed in the civil lawsuit of former lobbyist Steve Rosen against his previous employers at the American Israel…
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Yid Lit: Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is having banner year. The author of the novels “The History of Love” (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) and “Man Walks into a Room” (Anchor, 2003) was named one of the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 fiction writers and her new novel, “Great House,” came out the same month it was nominated…
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A Star-Studded Gala Launches New American Jewish Museum in Philadelphia
There was an enormous covered tent within clanging distance of the unclangable Liberty Bell. There was gourmet, kosher rack of lamb and beet salad with salmon mousse. There were politicians, and there were big-deal donors. Oh, and did we mention Babs? Barbra Streisand had come to Philadelphia for a November 13 gala, marking the opening…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Beck on Soros; Jewish Voice for Peace; Demjanjuk on Trial
Glenn Beck’s controversial comments about philanthropist George Soros; what is likely to be the last trial of alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk; and the rising profile of Jewish Voice for Peace are the topics of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. Forward contributor A.J. Goldmann and senior columnist J.J. Goldberg join host Josh Nathan-Kazis. Subscribe to Forward…
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Anonymous to the Rescue for Lincoln Square Synagogue
An anonymous donor has offered $20 million to Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue to enable it to complete construction on its new building just one month after cost overruns had threatened to abort the project in midstream. The congregation—an iconic symbol of Modern Orthodoxy in New York and nationally—faced a $19.5 million funding gap. “We feel…
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Shapiro: Administration Opposes Palestinian State Declaration Via U.N.
A day after the seven-hour meeting between Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York, one of the Obama administration’s top Middle East hands, Dan Shapiro, was sent to brief Jewish leaders on where things stand. It was a classic Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell conference call this morning. It was billed…
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The Rise, Then The Fall of GOP’s ‘National Rabbi’
Updated, November 17, 2010, 5 p.m. The storied career of an indomitable ultra-Orthodox political fixer appears to have entered its final phase with the conviction of Rabbi Milton Balkany, known to the press as the “Brooklyn Bundler.” Balkany was found guilty November 10 of attempting to extort $4 million from Steven A. Cohen, a hedge…
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Bibi Walks a Tightrope During U.S. Visit in Wake of GOP Congressional Surge
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrapping up his U.S. tour, which began with Jewish leftists heckling him this week at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, and went on to a nasty exchange of statements with the Obama administration over Israel’s building plans in East Jerusalem. But it was also…
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Introducing Nan Hayworth: Almost the Second Jewish Republican in Congress
Is newly-elected congresswoman Dr. Nan Hayworth Jewish? The question has tripped up and puzzled politicos ever since this Republican/Tea Party ophthalmologist won a suburban New York City seat in Congress. Come January, Hayworth will be representative of New York’s District 19, an area that includes parts of Westchester, Orange and Rockland Counties — and Kiryas…
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A Golden Chain
Author Dan Senor’s Election Reality Check on the Menu at UJA-Federation’s Lion of Judah Luncheon “Who [in this room] is a Holocaust survivor? Who was helped by NYANA [UJA-Federation’s New York Association for New Americans]? Who sent their kids to a Jewish camp? Stand up!” said Judy Baum, event chair at the October 26 UJA-Federation…
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Va-yetzei: The Notepad
Last Sunday, my husband went to a franchise expo and returned with various nick-nacks for the kids. He gave my six-year-old son a pad and pen that he’d picked up. Jeremy was delighted and immediately started writing a story about our recent trip to Israel on the pad. At first he asked me how to…
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