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| For new JTA columnist Lisa Keys, getting pregnant and giving birth were simple compared to the onerous task of choosing a name for her son. Read more » | |
FUNDERMENTALVISION: Bronfmans urge intermarriage outreach | |
| Adam Bronfman, son of Edgar and managing director of the Samuel Bronfman Founation, sat down with JTA to talk about his campaign to get Jewish organizations and institutions to embrace intermarried families (see video). Read more » | |
Rubashkin denied bail | |
| A federal magistrate judge denied bail for the former plant manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa. Read more » | |
Budgets slashed at Jewish schools in FSU | |
| Across the former Soviet Union, the world's largest Jewish outreach group is facing an acute financial crisis that has slashed budgets across the board and left the region's largest network of Jewish schools scrambling to stay afloat. Read more » |
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Postville coming ungluedThe Agriprocessors plant is shut down. Workers are not being paid. An estimated several hundred are stranded, broke, and out of work. And now, according to the man behind Postville radio, we have the first rumblings of a violent reaction (listen to audio). |
Advice for ObamaIn today's Washington Post, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- two former U.S. national security advisers who are not exactly favorites of the pro-Israel lobby -- have some advice for the new U.S. president. |
Political Tidbits: And the national security adviser is...Retired Marine Gen. James Jones is the leading candidate to be Barack Obama's national security adviser. The Jerusalem Post wonders whether a possibly more conservative Republican Party will be able to attract Jews. The Forward's Nathan Guttman says Rahm Emanuel is more dovish than you think. A Mormon official at the American Jewish Congress is feeling heat for backing California's gay marriage ban. |
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