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Until he got that fax at the Synagogue, Ralph Cohen thought he knew where Barack Obama stood on Israel. The word around Century Village, a reliably liberal Florida retirement community in Pembroke Pines, was that Obama strongly supported the Jewish state. But the Sept. 23 anonymous document alleged something else: Obama had "surrounded himself with some of the most anti-Semitic friends and anti-Israel advisers...
...jeopardized other abortion statutes; at the time, Illinois law required doctors to save the lives of all viable fetuses after birth.) In Michigan, a political committee called Freedom's Defense Fund has been running television spots that highlight Obama's ties to the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright. The Republican Jewish Coalition, a conservative pro-Israel group, has been poll-testing anti-Obama messages in preparation for a large campaign of its own. "We are prepared to spend significantly more than we have in the past," says Matt Brooks, its executive director...
Voters like Cohen, who serves as president of the Century Pines Jewish Center, are left to sort through the information on their own. When he received the fax casting doubt on Obama's support of Israel, he contacted Sophie Bock, who runs his condo community's local Democratic club. She told him it was just dirty tricks and pointed to Obama's support among a number of pro-Israel leaders. Then she called her Congresswoman's office to spread the word about the nasty messages being sent to the temple. "They said it's just electioneering," she explained...
...when I knew nothing of Hemingway other than his name (which seemed to carry serious cachet with my teachers). I hadn’t been able to get past the first 20 pages. I was repulsed by the way he characterized Robert Cohn, describing his “hard, Jewish, stubborn streak” and noting of a certain expression that it is how “his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain and simple. Rather than taking the time...
...leader because "she was someone clean who believed in fair play." Livni, he says, is likely to pursue the U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians. In interviews, Livni says she believes in a two-state solution with the Palestinians as the only way for Israel to remain a Jewish and democratic state. Yet she will face the same lack of support for the peace process among her hawkish coalition partners, and Kadima Party members, that thwarted Olmert...