Dec 19 2012
The Christian right’s fight against the ‘war on Christmas’ By Diane Roberts, Tuesday 18 December 2012 17.01 EST I love this time of year: decking the halls with boughs of artificial holly, wrapping twinkly lights around anything that doesn’t move, and settling in on a long winter’s night to watch conservatives take up rhetorical …
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Dec 09 2012
So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012 Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and …
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Dec 07 2012
Christian right enforces GOP senators’ vote against UN disabilities treaty By Nancy L Cohen, Thursday 6 December 2012 10.55 EST I couldn’t sleep at night if I were a senator and did not vote for this. So said Steven Rothstein, a leading advocate for the disabled, to the Boston Globe on the eve of …
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Nov 16 2012
We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action! By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012 The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But …
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Nov 13 2012
Mr. President, remember me? It’s Bill Ayers By Bill Ayers, Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 02:00 PM CST I have a backpack filled to overflowing with grievance and discontent, dissent and demand, as well as wild hopes and radical aspirations: end the wars and the drone strikes, slash the pentagon, fight for universal health care, …
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Nov 10 2012
My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012 Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …
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Nov 09 2012
Heartbeat: My Involuntary Miscarriage and ‘Voluntary Abortion’ in Ohio By Tamara Mann, 11/01/2012 10:30 am On June 19, the state of Ohio declared that I had a voluntary abortion. My rabbi and my doctors disagreed. I simply wanted to be pregnant. The ordeal began two weeks earlier; I was in stirrups. The sonogram technician …
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