Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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News Conservatives Clash Over Gay Outreach
A prominent Jewish conservative is accusing leading social conservatives of “intolerance” after they criticized the chairman of the Republican National Committee for meeting with a gay advocacy group. David Horowitz, a former radical leftist turned right-wing provocateur, wrote an article blasting the conservative activists, citing by name leading lights of the religious right, including 2000…
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Israel News White-Collar Blues in a ‘Jobless Recovery’
The recession that officially began in March 2001 ended within a year after it started, most economists agree. You would not know it, however, from the masses of job seekers — often solidly upper middle-class — still lining up for the services of the nation’s Jewish vocational agencies. Even as the American economy has seen…
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News Black History Museum Is Moving Ahead in Congress
With the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993, Washington gained a widely acclaimed museum lauded for its emotionally moving permanent exhibit. The launch of a government-sponsored institution devoted to a genocide perpetrated overseas also highlighted, if unintentionally, the absence of a major national museum addressing American slavery. Now, however, as the…
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News Congregation in Flap Over Activist
A New York synagogue known for its throngs of young congregants and liberal politics is scrambling to distance itself from an event it had been scheduled to host next month, honoring pro-Palestinian activist Adam Shapiro, following the appearance of a critical article in a right-leaning newspaper. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun posted a statement on its Web…
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News Doing Well by Doing Good: ‘Tax Cheat’ Trumpets Largesse
Marc Rich, the pardoned tax fugitive, has given away more than $100 million in the last two decades, according to an elegant, hard-bound history of his philanthropic work issued recently by his foundation. It turns out, though, that even if recipients returned every penny, it still might not be enough to settle his tax bill….
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News Report: 3.3 Million Dead in Africa’s Bloodiest Conflict
An estimated 3.3 million people have died during the last four and a half years as a result of the bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a report issued Tuesday by a relief group. The International Rescue Committee report said that about 85% of the deaths were from hunger and…
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News Reform Parley Raps Bush Domestic Agenda
WASHINGTON — While thousands of pro-Israel activists gathered a short distance away for the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, with many voicing support for the Bush administration’s handling of foreign policy, leaders of America’s largest synagogue movement were focused on the president’s domestic agenda — and they were not pleased. Speaker after…
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News Under Pressure, Israel Acts To Prop Up Birthright Trips
Under heavy criticism from Israeli politicians and American Jewish leaders, the Israeli government abandoned a proposal to end its support for a popular program offering young Diaspora Jews free trips to Israel. Reports early this week that the cash-strapped Israeli government was set to eliminate its financial support for Birthright Israel prompted an outcry among…
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