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The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them are the sharp-edged departures from past US policy on the Middle East.
Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians should be...
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The book by Shimon Peres about David Ben-Gurion was written “in conversation with” David Landau, a former editor in chief of Haaretz and former correspondent for JTA.
Let us dispense with the platitudes that Peres is usually showered with and...
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President Obama named Jack Lew, an Orthodox Jew, to be his next chief of staff. There had been speculation in the Jewish community about whether Obama would fill a top spot with someone close to the Jewish community after the departure last month of...
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In 1948, two social scientists published the first scholarly study of religious group voting patterns in the United States. According to the authors, Catholics, Jews, and Baptists were Democratic by margins of two to one or better. Five...
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In a recent interview, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) National Chairman Abraham Foxman declared that when it comes to positions on Israel, “with the exception of Ron Paul, there is not much difference between the parties.” I cannot imagine how he...
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As Herman Cainfollows in the footsteps of Anthony Weiner and becomes a rarely to be read footnote in American political history, his candidacy reminds us of a few extremely important points about life. These points were hinted to in the brilliant...
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Over a dozen members of Congress recently participated in the Food Stamp Challenge: living for one week on the average SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefit of $31.50.
Fighting Poverty with Faith, a national mobilization led by the Jewish Council...
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Senator Joseph Lieberman was warmly welcomed by over 1,000 people as the featured speaker at the Sixth Annual Gershon Jacobson Lecture, held in Manhattan’s famed Park East Synagogue. Senator Lieberman’s historic lecture on religion and...
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney recently rolled out a detailed economic recovery plan which includes a deep cut in corporate taxes and far-ranging reductions in government red tape. He said he would slash the corporate tax rate from a...
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For millennia, diversity of opinion has been a Jewish hallmark. As the old adage goes, “When you have two Jews you have three opinions.†Yet, over the years, when rallying for the causes that are dearest to the collective Jewish heart,...
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