When Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Isaac Herzog, visited the White House after Israel’s independence was declared, he told Truman, “G-d put you in your mother’s womb so that you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel after 2000 years.”
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/26/12
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Last Tuesday (4/10) began the first official week of the real Presidential campaign. With Rick Santorum’s announcement that he was suspending his campaign, the battle was finally joined, Republicans ended the circular firing squad of the GOP primary season and turned their attention to President Obama.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/19/12
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It started 3,500 years ago in the land of Egypt, during the first Passover. Jews were commanded to smear the blood of a slaughtered lamb on the doorposts of their homes so death would pass over them.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/5/12
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Listen closely. Do you hear that faint singing? No, it’s not the neighborhood Chazzan practicing his favorite holiday nusach in preparation for Pesach. Listen closer, what you hear is the proverbial fat lady signaling that Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate for president.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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3/29/12
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It is tiring to read the right wing drivel that is Jeff Dunetz's weekly column. This week's column is another example of partisan whining that ignores reality.
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By Michael Brenner
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3/22/12
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The release of the Barack Obama/Derrick Bell Harvard video by the Breitbart site was insignificant by itself. Those who were looking for some major smoking gun were very disappointed.
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On his Media Matters for America (MMFA) blog MJ Rosenberg has promised he will no longer use the Anti-Semitic term "Israel firster" to describe American Jews who support Israel.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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3/15/12
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It was supposed to be a weekend of conflict between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel; it didn’t happen. Instead, we saw a President desperately trying to hold on to the Jewish vote--perhaps too hard.
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“Anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn’t know what they’re talking about -- or just isn’t telling you the truth...."
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By Jeff Dunetz
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3/1/12
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What do Barbara Streisand, the Pritzker Family, Jewish Communal Fund and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston have in common? Along with other Jewish related charitable foundations they are all helping to fund the anti-Semitism of Media Matters for America (MMFA).
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By Jeff Dunetz
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2/23/12
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