A law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush clearly requires the State Department to record Israel as the place of birth in passports for American citizens born in Jerusalem, but that requirement cannot be enforced by the courts, a federal judge ruled today.

For the second time, Ju…

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September 13, 2007 — As members of the Jewish faith ushered in Rosh Hashanah at sundown yesterday, the NYPD went into a heightened security mode. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly recently told a gathering of Jewish community and religious leaders there would be a “heightened presence of anti-crime u…

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A former senior U.S. official says Israel warned the Bush administration in the lead-up to the Iraq war that Iran posed a greater threat.

“The Israelis were telling us Iraq is not the enemy — Iran is the enemy,” Lawrence Wilkerson, the State Department’s policy planning chief at the time, tol…

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According to BirthrightIsrael.com there have been over 120,000 people from around the world who have taken their “birthright� to Israel.

I don’t know about everyone else, but I almost feel embarrassed explaining to my non-Jewish friends the thinking behind the organization. It’s har…

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The fat, antisemitic, homophobic, misogynistic racist, Jerry Falwell died yesterday. The world is a far better place because of it.

Falwell is best known for insisting that the purple teletubbie (Tinky Winky) was g…

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