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Rolling Stone’s Rick Perlstein does not like Sheldon Adelson (he calls him "crazy and unscrupulous") and thinks Adelson’s taste for union busting is more germane to understanding his relationship with Newt Gingrich than Israel. But his piece this week replays some of the highlights of how Adelson takes his fight to Jewish arenas. Then there was the time, late in 1999, […]

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A day before he bowed out of the race for the GOP presidential nod, Rick Santorum’s op-ed endorsing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital appeared in the New York Daily News. It includes shots not only at President Obama, but at Mitt Romney, with Santorum’s departure, the all but coronated GOP nominee: Never has Israel ever offered Western Jerusalem in […]

We blogged earlier about screenwriter Joe Eszterhas‘ break with Mel Gibson over differing visions of a movie based on the Maccabees. Eszterhaz accuses Gibson of hating Jews and says the film advances an agenda, aimed in part at converting Jews. An intriguing reference arises in Eszterha’s letter to Gibson to a "Rabbi Clueless," apparently Gibson’s sobriquet for the […]

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