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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: Jewish passivity (take that Tarantino)
10/06/09 05:56 PM
Can there be any question whether one is required to take advantage of an opportunity to save 1,500 Jewish (or non-Jewish) lives, coming from a tradition where it is taught that to save one life is as if to save the whole world? The so-called Jewish heros of Inglourious Basterds were not authentically Jewish. Golda Meier said that she had anger toward the Arabs not so much for killing Jews, as for making Jews kill Arabs. She was authentically Jewish!
Posted in: Rounding up opinions on Obama in Cairo (UPDATE #2)
06/05/09 12:59 PM
The problem with pressuring Israel to make unilateral concessions is that history shows that they will not be reciprocated; that the Palestinian leadership will once again not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace, as Abba Eban observed. Obama doesn't care because his political and physical security are not at stake, and because he has the audacity of grandiosity. Win or lose, he burnishes his image as a rock star to his acolytes.
Posted in: Reform backs same-sex marriage ban challenge
01/14/09 06:40 PM
Their tax exempt status should not be an issue. 501(c)(3) organizations are permitted to take non-partisan positions on political issues, and as an affiliate of a religious organization, the RAC may not even be a (c)(3) anyway. What I am saying is that a Jewish religious organization (as opposed to a Jewish political organization) should have some regard for the Torah in its public positions.
Posted in: Reform backs same-sex marriage ban challenge
01/14/09 04:00 PM
This raises an issue that I discussed with Rabbi Saperstein at a reception in Palm Beach Gardens on Sunday: is it appropriate for a Jewish organization to take a position based on consensus Jewish political beliefs, which is not grounded in Halacha? The Torah contains passages which are inconsistent with same sex marriages, yet most Reform Jews, including me, believe that principles of individual liberty should trump the Torah's proscriptions in matters of civil law. Yet it still seems to me that a Jewish religious movement is on shaky ground taking a position that is clearly at odds with passages in the Torah. I feel perfectly comfortable taking such position as an individual, but I am not comfortable with my movement taking the same position. Gary Walk Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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