Jews

The Sound of Silence

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Culture, Religion, Living, Jews, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Chinese Food, Shofar, Rabbi, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.

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Wall Street's Collapse Means That Jews Can be Known for Values Rather Than Money

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Money, Business News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

On the day after Rosh Hashanah, the front page of the New York Times Business Section published a photo showing nervous Jewish Wall Street traders outside one of the largest Synagogues in New York checking their Blackberries for the latest market news on this.

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Does Sarah Palin Know Any Jews?

Matt Littman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Jews, Alaska, Obama, Zabar's, Sarah Palin, Georgia, Sarah Palin Jews, Politics News
Matt Littman

So, I am asking, how many Jews do you think Sarah Palin has met? Literally. Ten? Two? One of the reasons she is so frightening is because her frame of reference appears to be so narrow.

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Jews for Obama?

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Haimoff

The one issue that surpasses even those that center around civil liberties is the continued existence of the state of Israel.

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Hey Jews

Ellis Weiner | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Beatles, Voters, Barack, Palin, Hey Jude, Mccain, Jewish, Yiddish, Politics News
Ellis Weiner

(To the tune of you-know-what, with apologies to you-know-who.) Hey Jews Don't make it worse With the curse of McCain and Palin Remember When fundam...

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Imagine That: Community Organizing Could be the Key to Peace and Prosperity in Israel

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Social Justice, Jerusalem, Activism, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, Israel Lobby, Sarah Palin, Environmentalism, Russians, Barack Obama Israel, Community Organizing, Israel, Peace, Social Activism, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Civil Rights, Islam, Jews, NIF.Org, New Israel Fund, Politics News
Raymond Leon Roker

While Palin intended her jab to belittle Obama's experience, it in fact helped galvanize those of us who know just how critical, challenging and imperative a role community organizers play.

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A Palin Theocracy

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Jews, John McCain, Theocracy, Evangelical Christians, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

Palin would indeed be a heartbeat away from becoming President. But what would a Palin administration really look like?

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Putting Jews Back in Their Place

Daniel Levy | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Aipac, Mccain Foreign Policy, Jews, Obama Jewish Vote, Judaism, Barack Obama Jews, Florida, Joe Lieberman, 2008 Election, Jewish Voters, Barack Obama, Palin Israel, Politics News
Daniel Levy

The 10-15% of the Jewish vote that the GOP tried to put in play this November is now feeling not only alienated, but downright offended by the latest offerings of the McCain message machine.

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Group Offers Jews $50,000 To Move To Alabama Town

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Jews, Alabama Town Jews, Temple Emanu-El, Larry Blumberg, Dothan Alabama Jews, Living News

DOTHAN, Ala. — Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization of...

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Sarah Palin... and the Jews

Rob Eshman | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Palin Vp, Sarah Palin Vp, Mccain Palin Ticket, Obama Jewish Vote, McCain Vice President, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, McCain VP, Jewish Voters, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Rob Eshman

Sarah Palin might cause "Israel First" Jews, who seemed to be pretty much done with Obama, to take a second look.

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Is This The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach

Scott Thill | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Religion, Arts, Christianity, Jews, Interviews, Hip-Hop, Judaism, Books, Entertainment News
Scott Thill

Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy.

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Combating Jewish Materialism -- A Jewish Peace Corps

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Community Service, Philanthropy, Jews, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Israel, Birthright, Peace Corps, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The Jewish community needs a new organization, modeled on Birthright, whose purpose it will be to inspire young Jewish volunteers to go around the world and help local rabbis and communal professionals for a two-week period.

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The Iranian-Jewish-American Constituency Weighs In

Jillian York | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Persian, Jews, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Mccain Jews, Jewish, Persian Immigrant, Iranian Jews, Iran, Jewish Voters, Home News
Jillian York

"Obama's calls to negotiate with Iran's current regime does not sit well with older Iranian-American Jews because many had their assets confiscated or were terrorized by the regime."

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A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Hate, Holocaust, Hitler, Nazis, David Irving, Conspiracy, Race, Hitchens, Politics News
Max Blumenthal

2008-07-26-blumenpull.jpgThe world's most prominent Holocaust denier issues a rousing defense of Hitler and blames Jews for their own persecutions.

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Hitler's Physician

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Jews, Oedipus, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Books, Entertainment News
Steven G. Kellman

A few historians and psychoanalysts have suggested that that Hitler's physician was himself responsible in part for Adolf's violent obsession with Jews.

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

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Marty Kaplan

If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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A Lesson About Pride Jews Can Learn From Obama

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama Ethnicity, Jewish Culture, Jews, Names, Anglicizing Names, Barack Obama Jews, Barry Barack Obama, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

By changing his name from Barry, Barack Obama has now forever eliminated the excuse for American Jews, not to mention other minorities, to bury their ethnicity by Anglicizing their names.

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Israel-Hamas Truce Holds, Gaza Receives Badly-Needed Goods

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Hamas, Irsrael-Hamas Truce, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, Politics News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel allowed dozens of trucks to deliver food, diapers and clothes to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, boosting the flow of b...

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Israel-Hamas Truce Confirmed By Israel

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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JERUSALEM — A long-sought truce between Israel and Gaza militants went into effect early Thursday, with the aim of halting militant attacks and ...

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Israel-Hamas Truce To Begin Thursday: Report

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

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JERUSALEM — The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Pa...

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Barack Obama's Real Problem with the Jewish Vote

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Elections, Politics, John McCain, Campaigns, Obama Jewish Vote, Israel, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Judaism, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Lost in all the noise about Obama's supposed problems winning Jewish support is that he is winning this group by nearly 2-1. Obama should wish for such problems with Christian voters as well.

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New Book Asks: Where's God While We Suffer?

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Jews, Jesus, Bible, Atheism, Faith, Agnostic, Christianity, God, Suffering, Job, Israelites, Ehrman, Prophets, Exodus, Huffpost Books, Living News
Sandy Goodman

Books by three atheists created a firestorm last year. Surprisingly, some of the harshest criticism came from other atheists, scientists and philosoph...

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Barack Obama - The First Jewish Presidential Nominee

Adam Hanft | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Adam Hanft

Jews have been a great American catalysts for change, not just in the way we fought for it, but in the way that our successes here birthed the narrative imagination that led to Obama's victory.

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No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.

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Jews, McCain, Obama, Evangelical Anti-Semites, Our Troops -- and Insanity

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evangelical Anti-Semites, Jews, Reverend John C. Hagee, Our Troops, GI Bill, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Senator McCain's motto seems to be: Judge me not by what I say or do or who I climb into bed with, rather judge me by the fact that I served my country.

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