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July 2009

Among the many things that the $787 billion stimulus package is paying for is kitchen equipment at 74 New York yeshivot. Here’s the story from an Agudath Israel press release:[[READMORE]] The federal stimulus bill will be helping stimulate some appetites – and helping alleviate the economic crunch – in 74 New York State yeshiva sites […]

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Tevi Troy, who served as Jewish liaision and as a domestic policy adviser in the George W. Bush White House, is wondering how Mary Robinson became one of President Obama’s 16 choices to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom next month. Her tenure as United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees during the 2001 Durban conference, […]

A day after the Washington Post editorialized that President Obama had made “missteps” in demanding an “absolutist” freeze on settlements by Israel but not getting tough on the Arab states, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times editorial pages back up the president’s Middle East policy — although both suggest that Obama should be […]

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