Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Huckabee: I will Not Use the H-Word on Rudy
Controversy continues to bubble up around GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee over his belief that legalized abortion constitutes a modern day “holocaust.” Huckabee was asked about it by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yesterday, and confirmed that, from his perspective, Roe v. Wade has wrought a modern day “holocaust.” That, in and of itself, is something of…
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News NYU Bid To Take Over Center for Jewish History Called ‘Dead on Arrival’
The ink is barely dry on New York University’s preliminary plan for bailing out the financially strapped Center for Jewish History, but some insiders at the center have wasted little time in proclaiming it dead on arrival. Senior leaders at the two institutions are billing a newly proposed merger as a mutually beneficial arrangement that…
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News Huckabee’s ‘Holocaust’ Analogy Has ADL Angry, Abortion Foes Yawning
Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee emerged from the recent Values Voter Summit with a new wave of support from Christian conservatives, but he also garnered some unwanted attention from Jewish leaders incensed over his use of the word “holocaust.” In his address before the conference, hosted in Washington last month by the conservative Family Research…
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News McCain Sounds Skeptical Note on Peace Process
The United States should support a “step-by-step” peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians, presidential hopeful John McCain told an audience of Jewish leaders in New York this morning. That cautious assessment, delivered by McCain during a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, brings the Arizona senator into the company…
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News Jewish Democrats on What’s Scary…
Never mind that Halloween, which falls on a Wednesday this year, is the bane of Hebrew school administrators everywhere. The holiday may not be kosher, but it’s good for a laugh, and the National Jewish Democratic Council has come out with this scary cartoon:
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News Could Romney Face His Own Tough Questions About Tolerance?
I have a story up this week about the fact that Mitt Romney’s Mormonism – a major hurdle in his challenge to win over the GOP’s base – is at the same time winning him a little extra sympathy from some Jewish Republicans. (Jews know what it’s like to face questions about one’s religion, after…
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News Jews to Huckabee: Stop Misusing the Holocaust Analogy
Does Mike Huckabee have an unfortunate penchant for Holocaust analogies? As the former Arkansas goveror’s star rises in the Republican ranks, the Anti-Defamation League is calling foul over his (mis)use of the imagery of the Shoah. The problem: At the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington last weekend, Huckabee denounced what he called…
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News Is Michael Lerner Still Chatting with Hillary?
This interview would seem to suggest he is: LERNER: I’ve met with a number of the political candidates and they said what I already knew, which is: “This is very good. We agree with it but we can’t say it publicly because the cynics who dominate public discourse would laugh us out of the political…
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