Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Religious Groups Push Kentucky Schools To Use ‘Before Christ’
In the wake of national debates about the teaching of evolution and sex education in the public schools, Christian conservatives in Kentucky are now mobilizing over the issue of calendar abbreviations. Activists, along with the governor and other state politicians, have accused the State Board of Education of attempting to drive Christianity from the classroom…
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News Democratic Fight Looms Over House Intel Post
A potentially volatile cocktail of personality clashes, power plays and mounting outrage at the White House could upend any campaign by the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee — one of the most influential Jewish members of Congress — to keep her post. Rep. Jane Harman, a Southern California Democrat known for her centrist…
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News Conservatives Fight Vaccine for Students Dem Campaigns To Keep Post
As the Food and Drug Administration prepares to approve the first vaccine against infections that cause a majority of cervical cancers, religious conservatives are rallying to keep the vaccine from being mandatory for public school students. Gardasil has been proven effective in blocking the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes cervical cancer in…
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News Liberals Defend Gay Marriage As Religious Right
With the Senate slated to vote in three weeks on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, an interfaith coalition of liberal clergy is arguing that the measure would violate their religious liberty. The coalition, billed as Clergy for Fairness, opposes the Marriage Protection Amendment, which would constitutionally define marriage as a union between a man…
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News Former General Calls for Darfur Force
As world leaders struggle to halt the mass killing in Darfur, former general and 2004 presidential candidate Wesley Clark is calling for NATO to intervene in the conflict and for the United States to commit a small detachment of ground troops. Clark served as the supreme allied commander of the NATO forces that drove Serbian…
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News Catholics in New Outreach To the Jewish Community
As calls for divestment from Israel continue to ripple through mainline Protestant denominations, several of the world’s most prominent Catholic leaders are making high-profile overtures to the Jewish community. During a trip to Poland that started this week, the German-born Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit the Auschwitz death camp on May 28. Next…
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News Rabbi Fired Over Sex Claims, Defenders Offer Mea Culpa
An Israeli-based spiritual institute has fired its main rabbi over sexual abuse claims, less than two years after several prominent American religious figures rallied to defend him against earlier allegations. At least five female students and staff members have come forward to accuse Rabbi Mordechai Gafni of luring them into sexual relationships through intimidation, psychological…
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News Ala. Democrats Scramble To Bounce Shoah Denier From Primary Ballot
A Democratic candidate for Alabama’s attorney general’s office has been exposed as a Holocaust denier less than a month before the state’s June 6 primaries. Larry Darby believes that there were no more than 140,000 Jewish deaths during World War II — most of them having been brought on by typhus — and that the…
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