Plenty of Jews on board California’s bid to legalize marijuana
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2010
Ed Rosenthal has been working to legalize marijuana in California since he moved to the state in 1972.
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Politics
Rattling the cage
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2010
Next Tuesday, a uniquely deranged political party is going to take over the most powerful country on earth.
Messianic building won’t serve as polling place
Jeffrey Hensiek
October 26, 2010
A polling place at a messianic Christian center in New York was changed after Orthodox Jewish voters protested. Jewish voters complained to the city\’s Board of Elections after the Life in Messiah evangelical group\’s building was announced as a polling place for four election districts from Midwood in Brooklyn, according to the New York Daily News. The voters said their strict adherence to Jewish law would not allow them to enter the building.
Australian lawmaker cites Shoah victims and a survivor
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2010
Australia’s first Jewish lawmaker for the federal Liberal Party paid homage in his maiden speech to family members who perished in the Holocaust and one who survived. Speaking Monday in the House of Representatives in Canberra, Joshua Frydenberg, 39, and a graduate of Bialik College in Melbourne, said that “My great-grandparents, and many relatives on both sides, perished in the Holocaust, but one who survived is with us today. My great-aunt Mary Frydenberg spent two years at Auschwitz. She was transferred back to Germany by the Nazis and then sent on a death march, but she escaped with the assistance of a humane German guard.”
Will Rep. Cantor hurt Israel?
Douglas Bloomfield
October 26, 2010
Aid to Israel has long been the locomotive that pulls foreign aid through the Congress, and for just as long as some lawmakers have been saying they\’d vote for aid to Israel only if it were separated from the rest of the world.
Lowey blasts Cantor on Israel aid proposal
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2010
The top foreign operations appropriator in the U.S. House of Representatives slammed a GOP proposal to vote separately on aid to Israel and foreign aid.
U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor: Take Israel out of foreign aid
Jewish Journal
October 25, 2010
A Republican Congress would seek to remove funding for Israel from the foreign operations budget, a GOP leader said.
Israel, Iran, court, entitlements—what does a GOP Congress mean?
Jewish Journal
October 25, 2010
The likely prospect of Republican control of at least one chamber of Congress has triggered broad speculation about the remainder of President Obama’s time in the White House, Republican bids for the presidency in 2012 — and the very course of the nation, if not the West.
Unifying factor in 2010 election: Never before
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2010
Talk to veteran campaign watchers about this year’s congressional races, and within seconds they will tell you that they\’ve never before seen elections quite like these.
Rabbi breaks with Carl Paladino over apology
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2010
NYTIMES.com: The alliance between the Republican Carl P. Paladino and an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn has fallen apart, with the rabbi denouncing Mr. Paladino on Wednesday for his apology over remarks he had made about homosexuality on Sunday.
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