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- Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
- Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.
- Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
- Canadian Liberals object after Conservatives say they’re stronger Israel backers
- Israel arrests five P.A. officers
- Abbas: Israel talking to Hamas
- Abbas welcomed by Jewish pol in Brazil
- South African Jewish leader Mendel Kaplan dies
- Israel will send ship to NATO anti-terror force
- Obama: New Iran sanctions coming within weeks
- What should we bring? Thanksgiving foods that travel well
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Obama half-brother has Jewish roots
- Lieberman: Fort Hood could be terror attack
- J Street confab shows generational divide on Israel
- What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
- Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
- Obama shifts to Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it
- Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech
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Posted in: Is the turbulent health care debate bad for the Jews?
08/19/09 12:36 PM
What is REALLY bad for the Jews is a lunatic like Orly Taitz being welcomed as a "rising star" in Israel, especially by the Channel 9 Russian racists.
Posted in: In Beit Shemesh, residents struggle to counter violent religious coercion
07/20/09 02:39 PM
To paraphrase Martin Niemoller: "In Israel, they came first for the Arabs, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Arab; And then they came for the leftists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a leftist; And then they came for the secularists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a secularist; And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Posted in: Franken recount victory leaves Senate without Jewish GOPers
07/01/09 12:15 PM
Fingerhut writes, "...for the first time in decades, a moderate GOP Jewish voice -- embodied over the years not only by Specter but also Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and the late Jacob Javits of New York -- will be absent from the Senate." Two observations: 1) Moderate Republicans are an endangered species in and out of Congress, period. 2) Just because he is Jewish does not make Coleman a "moderate." (The same holds true for Eric Cantor.) Have a look at the articles and press releases on the website of the Republican Jewish Coalition, with which Coleman has already assumed a top leadership position: they're indisguishable from the worst trash broadcast by Fox News and by Rush Limbaugh. Then again, based on his apparent bias in nearly all of his articles for JTA, Eric Fingerhut is clearly more comfortable in the Republican camp as well.
Posted in: Israeli and son die in Queens
06/30/09 02:05 PM
In 2006, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the plant $1,500 after a worker was crushed to death by a Caterpillar wheel-loader the previous year, according to federal records. Records from the most recent OSHA inspection, conducted earlier this year, show that the federal agency identified several serious violations at the plant, including violations concerning floor and wall openings and holes, industrial stairs, respiratory protection, medical services, and oxygen-fuel gas welding and cutting. The company was directed to pay thousands of dollars in penalties in connection with those violations. But if two of the three workers who perished hadn't been Israeli, JTA wouldn't even have noticed.
Posted in: Security guard killed in Holocaust museum attack
06/10/09 06:21 PM
According to Dept. of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano, the DHS issued a report in April warning of anti-Semitic violence by white supremacists. It was ridiculed and disparaged by the right-wingers with whom our Jewish organizations are making common cause. Where was the American Jewish Committee? Honoring Rupert Murdoch, owner and patron of hatemongering Fox News (Murdoch was presented with the AJC National Human Relations Award, March 4, 2009 in New York City) and villifying NY Times columnist Roger Cohen! The ADL? Campaigning for divestment from firms doing business with Iran, instead of focusing on the threat of domestic terrorism here in the US.
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