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EST 1917

Barack Obama

Rabbi Elliott Dorff said he was simply using a common Hebrew expression and was not implying that John McCain was the equivalent of Haman when he introduced Barack Obama on a conference call Wednesday afternoon. The Orthodox Union blog and another rabbi on the call felt Dorff’s remarks were too partisan. Dorff, vice chairman of […]

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Here’s the report from Ben Harris: NEW YORK (JTA) – Sarah Palin is being disinvited from the Jewish-sponsored Iran rally, sources told JTA. The move follows two days of controversy for organizers of Monday’s rally to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations. The controversy erupted after JTA reported that Palin, the Republican […]

Is Barack Obama’s race a problem for older Jewish voters? A number of Jewish leaders across the country think so, writes Jim Besser in The Jewish Week. CNN checks out the battle for Jewish votes in Florida. The woman who is believed to be the oldest American voter living abroad, Miriam Pollak of Israel, is […]

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