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July 14, 2009

I’ve heard David Harris speak. I’ve read John Mearsheimer’s prose. “Running and hiding” might describe my earnest longings during my weaker moments deep into either experience, but I never imagined it was a feature of their vocabularies. Yet here are the American Jewish Committee’s executive director and the University of Chicago scholar/”Israel Lobby” critic going […]

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U.S. News and World Report’s Dan Gilgoff has made a list of "Obama’s 10 Most Important Faith Leaders" and Rabbi David Saperstein has made the list (which doesn’t rank them 1-10 but just lists the group). Gilgoff writes that Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism director Saperstein is "a key liaison between the White House […]

What some bloggers, and some who were there, are saying about Monday’s White House meeting between President Obama and 16 Jewish leaders: Jennifer Rubin of Commentary was disappointed in the lack of dissent at what she calls a "scripted minuet in conflict avoidance." And Rick Richman, also at Commentary, objects to Obama’s reported statement that […]

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