Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Carter To Speak at Brandeis
Pro-Israel activists are gearing up for a showdown with Jimmy Carter next week at Brandeis University, where the former president will field questions on his controversial new book on Israel. The visit, scheduled for January 23, was recently announced after weeks of contention between Carter and university officials, who previously proposed that he appear in…
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Culture Agency’s CEO Brings His Ideas to Think Tank
After two decades as president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Education Service of North America, Jonathan Woocher is taking a new position this month as the organization’s chief ideas officer. Woocher will also become the director of the Lippman Kanfer Institute, Jesna’s recently founded think tank. The Jewish community has “a lot of…
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News Reform Rabbis Cancel Carter Center Visit
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shortly after this article was posted, 14 board members of the Carter Center announced their resignation from the institution. The rabbis of America’s largest synagogue movement have canceled a planned visit to the Atlanta-based Carter Center in response to the publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….
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News McCain Lines Up N.Y. Money Men, Raising Pressure on Rudy Giuliani
Arizona Senator John McCain has scored an early victory in the battle between GOP presidential frontrunners by locking up support from several New York-area Republican moneymen also coveted by his northeastern rival, former Big Apple mayor Rudy Giuliani. McCain’s stable of national finance co-chairs includes Lewis Eisenberg, a multimillionaire financier from Rumson, N.J. who previously…
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News A Failed Search for a Neturei Karta Defender
It was a rumor too juicy to ignore: A teacher at a mainstream Orthodox high school in New York City, the story went, was prepared to defend the six ultra-traditionalist rabbis who attended the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran earlier this month. The story seemed to be the perfect counterweight to the current uproar surrounding…
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News Bible-toting Bluegrass Boychick Eyes Kentucky Governor’s Mansion
Jonathan Miller — the Jewish, Harvard-educated state treasurer who has recently all but declared that he will run for governor of Kentucky — has already developed a sure-fire opening for his stump speech: He talks about Jesus Christ. The Christian New Testament and the Jewish Talmud share a “really similar story,” Miller recently told a…
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News Koch: Kick Pundit off Shoah Board
Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch has called for Dennis Prager to resign or be removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, in response to the pundit’s recent insistence that a Muslim congressman not be sworn in using a Quran. “There is no question that Dennis Prager is a bigot who ought to…
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News Group Focuses on Education
An influential ultra-Orthodox organization is putting new muscle behind efforts to shape education policy at the state level. Agudath Israel of America, a New-York based advocacy group for ultra-Orthodox Jews, has recently created a new position, national director of government affairs. The new job is intended to create better coordination among the group’s 28 national…
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