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Breakfast with Yoda

Stephen P. Cohen, the Yoda like sage who has in the past been something of a muse to the hyper-influential Tom Friedman, held court at Washington’s Mayflower hotel for a few of us journalism types. When I say “Yoda-like,” I mean it in the best possible way: He’s round, bald and cute and more ancient […]

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Clinton and Rosenthal: Unremarkable “Unprecedenteds”

Read this superb post by American for Peace Now’s Lara Friedman on why the kerfuffle over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of “unprecedented” in describing Israel’s partial settlements freeze offer is much ado about nothing: It should surprise no one that the media and pundits prefer to view Middle East peace effort through a lens of […]

Health care fee on Americans abroad will likely get changed

Yesterday I linked to a Haaretz story on fear of Americans abroad in Israel that the mandate to purchase insurance in the health-care reform legislation would meant they’d have to pay $750 a year to the U.S. government for health care to which they wouldn’t have access. But since a provision was put in the […]

ADL urges GOP leaders to condemn Holocaust imagery at rally

Will Americans in Israel still have to pay for U.S. health insurance?

Bringing the story of Jewish life back to life

PLO’s man in DC says no negotiations without settlement freeze

Agudath says New York same-sex marriage is ‘dangerous,” threat to religious liberty

Tidbits: New State Dept. man on Iran, J Street on Bibi and Rahm

Rahm’s humor (and a special song dedication)

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