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    Yom Shabbat, 12 Tammuz 5769

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Insiders debate: Is Obama good or bad for Israel?

CHICAGO — A debate on Israel at the annual meeting of the American Jewish Press Association featured a very informed and influential face-off.

On one side was Alan Solow, chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (who spends “75% of my time on the conference, and another 75% of my time on my law practice”).

On the other side was Jonathan Schanzer, a public policy specialist with the Israel Policy Forum in Washington.

They spoke in very friendly and civil tones, often with good humor, and even agreed on a lot, but couldn’t hide their very different perspectives on the Obama admin- istration’s policy to Israel.

Solow is not “just” the chair of the Presidents Conference. He is one of President Obama’s longest Jewish friends (no doubt, one reason Solow’s colleagues found him suitable to chair the conference). Solow backed Obama for his first run for public office in 2002. Solow accompanied Obama on his first trip to Israel in 2006.

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View from Central Park

Special somethings

We all have the things we carry along with us. We all have the bag or briefcase, sack or saddlebag that accompanies us. Held in our bags might be our wallets, our identification cards, drivers license, some pocket change, maybe a tiny tin of mints, a creamy lip gloss, a pen. Perhaps we’ll also carry along a worn, treasured love letter tucked between the folds of a wallet, or maybe, by now, frayed pictures of children or grandchildren. A small book of Psalms or a favorite read to have along, just in case some extra time unexpectedly becomes ours. The day’s newspaper rolled under our arm, a papercup of coffee in hand. An umbrella.

These might be some of our tangible carry alongs.

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Plain Truth

See this film (or stop complaining)

WITH the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood.

In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil, power and tobacco executives on film. Or producing yet another movie on the evils of the Iraq War.

But if courage means doing what is unpopular — especially among one’s peers — I can recall precious few politically incorrect films made in the last decade (“The Dark Knight” comes to mind as a possible exception).

How many politically incorrect movies has Hollywood made in the last generation? How many films, for instance, have depicted communist evil? Given that Communism murdered more than 100 million innocents — in peacetime! — and enslaved about 1 billion more, one would think that Hollywood would have made a fair number of movies depicting the horrors of communism. But aside from “Dr. Zhivago” and “The Killing Fields,” I cannot think of any.

Last Updated ( Friday, 03 July 2009 07:08 )

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View From Denver

Goldberg's guide to good packing (a summer spur)

I don’t know. It seems I’m always packing or unpacking, either my suitcase or one of my kid’s. We’ve got a big family and no one lives in Denver anymore besides my wife and myself — we see a lot of suitcases and duffel bags. This has generated “Goldberg’s Guide to Good Packing.” Herewith:

Last Updated ( Friday, 26 June 2009 14:43 )

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View from Central Park

Korach

For the longest time I was confused when I read this week’s Torah portion, “Korach.” As I got older and read the text more closely, I understood why. Within one time frame, the text conflates two conflicts. It is not the one famous conflict of Korach that takes place; it is in fact two separate rebellions, with a similar theme and dramatic conclusion, amalgamated as one.

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JTA News

Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard

3 July 2009, 11:42 am A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.... [Link]

Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam

3 July 2009, 11:36 am Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.... [Link]

Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false

3 July 2009, 11:29 am Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.... [Link]

Palestinian swine flu cases rising

2 July 2009, 5:18 pm A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.... [Link]

Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire

2 July 2009, 4:55 pm The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.... [Link]

Clinton, Fayyad meet

2 July 2009, 4:45 pm Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.... [Link]

Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status

2 July 2009, 3:16 pm Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... [Link]

U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property

2 July 2009, 2:50 pm A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.... [Link]

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