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I hadn’t known Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Tea Party favorite who is considering a presidential run, had spent a summer in Israel on Kibbutz Be’eri when she was a teenager until she mentioned it at her reception last week at the AIPAC conference. It’s not news — the Minnesota Jewish media have had it […]

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On the television show Frasier, Frederick Crane, the title character’s estranged son, is the product of an interfaith union: his mother’s Jewish; his father isn’t. When the time came for Frederick’s bar mitzvah, Frasier wanted to be a supportive dad–but he didn’t really know what he was doing. And so a vindictive Jewish co-worker at Frasier’s radio station decided […]

Herman Cain, the former Godfather Pizza CEO, may not be a dilettante when it comes to his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a profile in today’s Washington Post. That’s largely because his fiscal policies make him  a Tea Party favorite. This passage, deep in the article, suggests he has a ways to […]

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