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- President Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations' General Assembly.
- The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.
- The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper.
- The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
- Obama cancels GA appearance
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Iran may have tested secret nuclear warhead design
- Report: U.S. stopped Israeli attack on weapons ship
- U.S. sees Abbas in continuing role
- Groups blast UNGA Goldstone vote
- Israel delivers swine flu vaccines to Palestinian Authority
- Abbas announces he won’t run for re-election
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Attacks on J Street as parley approaches
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Posted in: Imagining Jewish America's future (or lack thereof)
10/09/09 01:14 PM
Judaism has been a dynamic religion for 6,000 years, and it will continue to grow and change. Just as the Ashkenazi orthodox communities of the past had spin-off groups (conservative and reformed Judaism), so will the modern growing orthodox population spawn new spin-offs. They may not look like the conservative and reform movements as we know them, but there will be spin-off groups. The Jewish community never was and never will be homogeneous. There are things that connect all Jews, but not all Jewish communities are the same.
Posted in: Dissing Benjamin Cardozo?
05/27/09 02:09 PM
To add yet another level of confusion, Sotomayor is a name that Sephardim and conversos used, so it could be that Sonia Sotomayor has Sephardic ancestry too. Thus, Cardozo and Sotomayor may both have ancestry going back to Iberia during the Inquisition. It is possible that around the same time Cardozo's ancestors fled the Inquisition to New York, Sotomayor's ancestors may have fled the Inquisition to Puerto Rico. From that point to the present, of course, the Cardozo and Sotomayor families' experiences differed from each other, but I think it is fair to say that both families have Sephardic roots. Whether you use the term "Hispanic" to define Cardozo depends on how you define the term, and it has have several definitions over the centuries.
Posted in: Hundreds rally for Israel in New York
01/07/09 06:17 PM
Hundreds at the rally? I was there; the crowd was in the thousands, not hundreds.
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