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The Federal Bureau of Investigation arranges its online Freedom of Information Act archive by name, organization and topic. Or, to put that another way, from “Al Capone” to “Walter Elias Disney,” “ACLU” to “Zionist Organization of America” and “Animal Mutilation” to “White Supremacist Groups.” There is no catchall file for “Jews” in the archive, which…
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News 98-Year-Old Red Scare ‘Spy’ Loses Bid To Clear Name
(Reuters) — A 98-year-old retired New Jersey math teacher implicated in a Cold War atomic espionage case lost her bid on Thursday to throw out her conviction, which she called a McCarthy-era injustice. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan ruled that Miriam Moskowitz failed to show that recently released records not available to her trial…
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Breaking News McCarthy-Era Prisoner Asks Judge to Overturn Espionage Conviction
More than half a century after a jury implicated Miriam Moskowitz in the Cold War atomic espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the 98-year-old retired New Jersey math teacher is asking a federal judge to throw out her 1950 conviction, the New York Daily News reported. One of the last living links to the…
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Opinion Bagels and Iran
Democrats walk a fine line these days when they reach out to the organized, activist wing of the Jewish community. One side beckons with an ardent, almost scolding reminder of the Jewish mandate to care for the needy. On the other side, an urgent, almost pleading defense of the Democrats’ record on Israel. The danger:…
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