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• B’nai Jeshurun’s semi-retraction on U.N. Palestine vote

  December 6, 2012 5:31pm

  So the rabbis of B’nai Jeshurun are now expressing some "regret" over their email endorsing the U.N.’s Palestine statehood vote. The three rabbis shared their regrets in a followup email to congregants sent out today (and first reported by The New York Jewish Week). Here’s the gist: They don’t regret the sentiment the expressed, but…

• N.Y. shul’s rabbis ‘regret’ email praising U.N. Palestine vote

  December 6, 2012 5:10pm

  Rabbis at B’nai Jeshurun are expressing “regret” over an email sent out by the prominent New York synagogue praising the United Nations vote to elevate Palestinians to non-member state status.

• Lieberman: Obama said I helped make his run possible

  December 6, 2012 3:45pm

  The Washington Post has an interview with Sen. Joseph Lieberman as he retires from Congress. Two tidbits of particular note: 1) Lieberman said that then Sen. Barack Obama, in a private conversation in the Senate chamber, helped make possible his path-breaking presidential run. The conversation took place shortly after Lieberman delivered a speech at the…

• Netanyahu, alone in the world?

  December 5, 2012 11:45pm

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still looks like the prohibitive favorite to win Israeli elections next year. But in a popularity contest among world leaders, he likely wouldn’t garner many votes — even from Israel’s allies. This much seems clear from the lopsided U.N. vote to recognize Palestinian statehood — which saw key European countries…

• Adelson vows to double down on political spending (and endorses ‘socialized-like health care’)

  December 5, 2012 5:18pm

  Sheldon Adelson may have bet on mostly losing candidates, but that doesn’t mean he’s folding. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the GOP mega-donor and gambling tycoon said that he expects to "double" his political spending in the future, despite most of his candidates losing. "I happen to be in a unique business…

• How Philip Roth changed Ehud Olmert’s mind

  December 4, 2012 6:17pm

  Former JTA staffer Chanan Tigay has a nice article for The Atlantic on former prime minister Ehud Olmert’s political future (will he run again, or won’t he?) and past political transformations. So how did the former Likud prince become the great hope of some Israeli doves? Famed American novelist (and recent literary retiree) Philip Roth…

• Did Adelson spend nine figures on the election?

  December 4, 2012 3:56pm

  The Huffington Post reports: Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson vowed to spend as much as $100 million to defeat President Barack Obama and help the GOP take control of Congress. According to two GOP fundraisers with close ties to the Las Vegas billionaire, he made good on that promise — and then some. Adelson ultimately upped…

• South Africans mourn jurist and apartheid foe Arthur Chaskalson

  December 4, 2012 11:01am

  Leaders of South Africa and the country’s Jewish community mourned the death of jurist and anti-apartheid activist Arthur Chaskalson.

• Obama wants more Wasserman Schultz at DNC

  December 3, 2012 4:17pm

  President Obama reportedly wants Debbie Wasserman Schultz to continue at the helm of the Democratic Party. Politico reports that Obama is going to ask the Democratic National Committee to extend the Florida congresswoman’s tenure as the party’s chairwoman. [[READMORE]] Wasserman Schultz had been on the front-lines of this year’s election fight, and was frequently on…

• From Hollywood, an ode to Howard Berman

  December 3, 2012 3:57pm

  Politico publishes an essay mourning the looming departure from Congress of Rep. Howard Berman, who was defeated by fellow Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman after a bitter intra-party battle. Matt Gerson, who oversees government relations for Universal Music Group (Berman has long been a go-to guy for Hollywood on the Hill), pays tribute to the California…