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Could Specter change sides?

Could Arlen Specter become a Democrat? That’s what some are speculating after the AFL-CIO privately told Specter that it would back him for re-election if he supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, according to Greg Sargent’s The Plum Line. Combined with the tough GOP primary challenge Specter is facing from the right, it might be […]

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Why Freeman and Walt are wrong, from a Freeman admirer

One of Chas Freeman’s loudest and most prominent defenders, Stephen Walt, wrote yesterday at ForeignPolicy.com that the whole affair proved exactly what the book he co-wrote entitled “The Israel Lobby” was talking about: First, for all of you out there who may have questioned whether there was a powerful “Israel lobby,” or who admitted that […]

Handing out hamentashen on the Hill

One of the newest Jewish members of Congress helped his Jewish colleagues celebrate Purim this week. Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.) delivered homemade hamentashen to the 30 other Jewish members of the House of Representatives Adler, his wife, Shelley, and four sons baked the hamentashen at their home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. “With tensions high […]

Hey, Bibi, yes or no?

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — oy gevalt, it’s a Jewish ‘Watchmen’

Religious worker visa program extended

Chatting with Chas on the bus

United Synagogue makes its choice

Remember that Franken-Coleman thing? It still hasn’t ended

Weiss takes shot at RCA over prior conversions

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