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November 16, 2007
Israel and U.S. Jews intensify efforts to isolate Iran
American Jewish groups are aggressively attempting to rally support for isolating Iran until it ends its suspected nuclear weapons program. They are lobbying Congress, reaching out to friendly nations overseas and seeking allies in the United States.
With Pakistan in turmoil, Israel keeps eye on nukes
With the pro-U.S. regime of Pervez Musharraf in crisis following the Pakistani president\’s move to suspend his country\’s constitution and scuttle planned parliamentary elections, Israel is watching the developments with great concern.
The few, the proud, the Jews for Ron Paul
Even as Paul makes headway in some circles, organized Jewish support for his Republican presidential bid is nearly nonexistent, thanks to the candidate\’s longstanding stance against providing foreign aid, including U.S. assistance to Israel. Still, Paul commands a loyal, albeit small, Jewish following. This Jewish support has followed the same pattern as Paul\’s backing from other groups — coming from out-of-the way places on the Internet and taking mainstream media and political organizations by surprise.
OneVoice speaks mistakenly on achieving peace
Again and again, private organizations appear on the scene, promoting agendas designed to advance the peace process in the Middle East. In many cases, their intentions may be good; unfortunately, however, they generally lack a minimal understanding of the situation, and their programs and proposals are based on mistaken assumptions. As a result, their contribution to an easing of the prevailing tension between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs is of little or no value. An examination of one of these peace efforts, the OneVoice movement.
Handicapping the 2008 Presidential Race
Brief descriptions of Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and their likely appeal amongst Jewish voters.
Politics of liberal and conservative Jews reverse
Recently, I spoke to Reform rabbinical students in their class on \”Jewish Political Tradition.\” Which is, exactly, what? My expertise, I told them, is politics, not theology. Here was my dilemma: to talk reality or defer to the orthodoxy of Reform Jews, which is to say, political liberalism. (Forget the Reconstructionists, i.e., Jewish Unitarians, who are oxymoronic \”religious\” secular humanists.) How confusing all this, especially for non-Jews, who are further told that Conservative Jews are somewhere between Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews — sort of like the words \”liberal\” and \”conservative.\”
Be like God
The author of \”God\’s To-Do List,\” Dr. Ron Wolfson, is one of the shining lights of the Conservative movement, and thinks that a huge dose of simple, practical advice can transform Judaism\’s words of wisdom into action for everyday life.
Come, let us reason
The Writers Strike is a Jewish issue. How do I know that? Because everyone is saying it\’s not. The writers who are demanding a larger share of DVD rights and residuals for their work and the producers who refuse to give it to them both say, repeatedly, that despite the fact that so many of them happen to be Jewish, the strike is not — as Jewish writers and producers told our senior reporter Brad Greenberg last week — a Jewish issue. To paraphrase a Clinton-era favorite, you can be sure that when everyone is saying it\’s not about being Jewish, it\’s about being Jewish.
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