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...Hillel party. “I think it’s a cute idea for a party,” said Cohen, “our friend is throwing it...and it turned out to be a really good time.” When asked if John Harvard was Jewish, Ruback replied, “I assume not.” But who cares? Any excuse is a good excuse to get together and party with the Hillel community, especially when it stays PG-13. Harvard would have been proud. “We kept the grinding under control...
...Hillel party. “I think it’s a cute idea for a party,” said Cohen, “our friend is throwing it...and it turned out to be a really good time.” When asked if John Harvard was Jewish, Ruback replied, “I assume...
...mayoral race widely seen as a struggle for the soul of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, a secular, high-tech multi-millionaire and ex-paratrooper, defeated Meir Porush, candidate of the city's large, ultra-orthodox Jewish community...
...With more than 90% of the vote tallied, Barkat won with 50.7% of the vote to Porush's 42.05%. A Jewish Russian billionaire and former arms dealer, Arcady Gyadamak, failed in his bid to turn out the city's Arabs, who traditionally boycott the elections. He placed a distant third in the polls with 3.51%, while a fourth candidate, a bar owner who campaigned to legalize marijuana, collected one half percent of the vote...
...from a prominent Old City family. Dajani told TIME, "I said I would give Gaydamak the balcony of my hotel to speak to us Arabs, but only if he came out against Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem. His advisers never came back." Dajani adds, "They know that any Jewish candidate who said those things would have no chance of winning on the Jewish side." Two days before the election, Gaydamak offered to halt the demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem...