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Opinion Mitt’s Note and a Prayer
Most of the people wouldn’t have known who Mitt Romney was if wasn’t for the large entourage. But word travelled fast around the courtyard of the Western Wall that the Republican presidential candidate had arrived. The weather in Jerusalem is scorching and the atmosphere at the wall is intense, as people recite the special Afternoon…
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Opinion Out Bibi-ing Bibi
Mitt Romney has out Bibi-ed Bibi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is famous for saying that history is repeating itself. The way he tells it, we’re in the late 1930s, and today’s Nazis are the leaders of the Iranian regime, who threaten Israel’s future and perpetrate attacks like the recent one in Bulgaria through its…
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Fast Forward Romney and Netanyahu Hold ‘Warm’ Meeting
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was warmly received Sunday morning by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who emphasized the need for a credible military threat against Iran. “You said the greatest danger facing the world is of the ayatollah regime possessing a nuclear capability,” Netanyahu told Romney. “Mitt, I couldn’t agree with you more. All…
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Fast Forward Romney Arrives in Israel for Visit
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney arrived in Israel on Saturday, for as part of his three-nation foreign tour that includes Britain and Poland. The visit to Israel comes at a time when its leaders are weighing a military attack on Iran, the neighboring regime in Syria is looking increasingly shaky and Mideast peace talks are…
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Opinion The Shul Gap
Nearly 90% of Jews who never attend synagogue voted Democratic in 2008, according to a new analysis of Jewish voting patterns out this week. That’s in sharp contrast to the less than 65% of Jews who attend synagogue at least weekly who voted Democratic that year. Sponsored by a non-partisan group called The Solomon Project,…
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Fast Forward Ari Fleischer Accuses Obama of Bullying Israel
The former White House press secretary for the Bush administration has assailed President Obama for “pushing Israel around” and forcing the Jewish state to “make harmful, unwise concessions.” Addressing a group of dual Israeli-U.S. citizens Tuesday night at a get-out-the-vote event in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Ari Fleischer questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel….
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Opinion Mitt Romney Is Going to Israel
Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel this summer signals a full-bore appeal to Jewish voters right around the time of the Republican convention in early September. Romney’s trip is designed to highlight President Obama’s decision not to travel to Israel during his presidency, said Fred Zeidman, a Texas oil executive and prominent Republican Jewish Romney supporter….
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Opinion Rocky Start to GOP Orthodox Outreach
The nascent alliance between the ultra-Orthodox and the Republican Party that some analysts say could revolutionize New York state politics is getting off to a rocky start. UPDATE: Click through for Yossi Gestetner’s response. That’s the takeaway from the drama over Yossi Gestetner, the Hasidic political operative who abruptly resigned from his position directing Jewish…
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