Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News California Congressman Piles on Opposition to ADL’s Abe Foxman
California Congressman Adam Schiff is adding his voice to the chorus of opposition taking the national ADL to task for failing to unequivocally label the World War-era mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Turks as genocide. “I would like to see the ADL unequivocally recognize the Armenian genocide,” Schiff said in an…
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News Religious Rights on Trial as Circumcision Case Reaches Oregon’s High Court
The highest-level case in American history involving the right to circumcision is slated to be heard this fall, when the Oregon Supreme Court rules on whether a father can have his 12-year-old son undergo the procedure. The case — which could affect the ability of parents to make religiously motivated decisions for their children —…
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News A Muslim Congressman Heads to the Holy Land
Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is among a congressional delegation visiting Israel this week with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. The eighteen-member group, which is almost all freshmen, also includes Jewish congressmen Paul Hodes, John Yarmuth and Steve Cohen. My colleague Nathan Guttman is in Israel now and will have a story up this week…
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News Barack in Brooklyn …
On August 22. Here’s the sign-up. Clinton has been outraising Obama in Brooklyn so far, but lately he’s been gaining ground.
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News Jewish Groups Steer Clear of Judicial Fight
So far, the National Council of Jewish Women is the only Jewish group taking up the fight over the nomination of Judge Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Southwick’s nomination has been opposed by a wide array of liberal groups, including organizations representing black and gay Americans. In one past case,…
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News What Happens When An Arab Wearing a "We Will Not Be Silent" T-Shirt Boards JetBlue?
According to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU yesterday, Raed Jarrar – an architect of Arabic descent who has lived in the U.S. with his American wife since 2005 – was kept off a JetBlue flight at JFK last August until he agreed to change his t-shirt, which read, “We will not be silent,” in…
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News Because It’s Never Too Early For A Little Illinois Mudslinging … UPDATE: Jay Footlik Weighs In
Put this story in your “it’s never too early to go for the low blow” file: The blogosphere has been abuzz this week after Andy Lappin, a supporter of Illinois Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, played the anti-Semite card against the two Democratic challengers vying to take the lawmaker on in 2008. Lappin sent out an…
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News Good=Jews and Jews= Politicals, So Politics=Good??
Shmuel Rosner, correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is hosting an online conversation this week with the executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman. So far, it’s been a pretty standard discussion of whether the Dems are truly as pro-Israel as the GOP, etc., etc. But Forman has also provided a very…
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