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The ZOA put out a statement just now “clarifying” its opposition in principle to boycott laws. As I noted in my story about U.S. Jewish opposition to the Israeli law yesterday, ZOA’s President Mort Klein told me he was still reviewing the law. What’s notable is how he clearly struggled with his decision to oppose […]

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Lots of conservative buzz about a poll (PDF) by John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell for an organization called “Secure America Now,” one that (yet again) finds that President Obama is losing the Jewish community. At the Washington Post, Adam Serwer (writing for Greg Sargent’s blog, the Plum Line) makes an impeccable case that (yet again) the […]

What’s the connection between Hasidic Jews and diamonds? History tells us that many Jews, after being prohibited from most professions in medieval Europe, became financiers or diamond merchants. British author Jeanette Winterson, in her acclaimed 1998 novel Gut Symmetries, has a loftier answer. “To a Jew,” she writes, “stones have meaning beyond value. The 12 jewels of the High Priest‘s breastplate were energy, […]

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