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Dispatches From New Orleans on the JFNA General Assembly
Livni Calls for Resumption of Peace Talks November 9, 2010, 3:34 p.m. At the closing plenary of the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni called for a resumption of peace talks, and for a two-state solution. Speaking in the last hours of the three-day conference, Livni…
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Britain’s New Envoy to Israel Is Jewish
The day before his interview with the Forward, Great Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to the State of Israel met with a senior member of the government to discuss Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank — a topic on which London and Jerusalem sharply disagree. “In the course of this discussion he started quoting various…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: The 2010 Election
How American Jews voted in the 2010 election, and what the results mean for the Jewish community and Israel policy, are the subjects of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward associate editor Karen Loew, who co-edits our politics blog, MitzVote, and with Washington-based staff writer Nathan Guttman. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts…
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Still More Than a Minyan in the Senate: The Post-Election Count
Cross-posted from J.J. Goldberg’s blog. O.K., so how bad was it for the Jews? Not as bad as for Democrats in general. A few Jewish lawmakers were defeated, a smaller number of new ones were elected. A quick look at who’s in and who’s out offers some intriguing insights about the current state of American…
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Bagels & Ballots: The Aftermath
The Jewish Vote: As a Republican wave swept the House of Representatives, 66% of Jews voted Democratic, a survey shows. Jew-liticos will bid adieu to five Jewish incumbents and need to make connections with new unknown Tea Partiers. (The Forward) Tell Me More: Struggling to make sense of Tuesday evening’s events? The Forward’s opinion page…
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The Chosen: The Jews of the 112th Congress
Crossposted from JTA The following is a list of the 39 Jewish members — 12 senators and 27 representatives — who are expected to serve in the 112th U.S. Congress, which is set to convene in January: U.S. SENATE Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)* Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)** Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Al Franken (D-Minn.) Herb…
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Special Satmar School District Gets a Windfall
What is a school district of 123 students going to do with $1.6 million in federal grants earmarked for education reform? That’s the happy quandary facing the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District, a public school district for special education students in upstate New York, in the Satmar Hasidic town of Kiryas Joel. The…
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Old-School Jewish Activist Faces the Future as Project Ezra Prepares for Merger
Misha Avramoff, 71, has a little problem with his pronouns. “We bombed the King David Hotel,” he said in an interview is his office in Project Ezra’s space, on New York City’s Lower East Side, as an aside in the self-narrated — and decidedly nonlinear — story of his life. It is hard to picture…
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Federal Civil Rights Policy Expanded To Protect Jewish College Students
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights ruled that Jewish students will once again be included among groups protected from ethnic- or race-based harassment on campus under the Civil Rights Act. The October 26 decision, which restores a protection first given and then withdrawn from religious groups during the George W. Bush administration,…
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All Conversions Now Under Review in Israel as Crisis Escalates
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has hoisted a question mark over the legitimacy of all conversions performed in the country since at least 1999. This constitutes the deepening of a crisis that began on September 6, when a representative of Israel’s Attorney General raised doubts about the legitimacy of conversions performed under the auspices of the country’s…
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Report: Obstfeld’s Death an Accident
When Orthodox real estate developer Solomon Obstfeld was found dead on the second story roof of a Manhattan hotel in June, the official finding of suicide met with widespread skepticism among his friends. Press reports at the time noted Obstfeld’s connection to a contentious dispute over a Brooklyn condo development, and to a business partner…
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