Obama's immigration reform speech: first reactions
President Obama, coming off a handful of important legislative victories, hinted today in a major speech that he might try his hand at legislation on the third rail of American politics – immigration...
View ArticleArizona immigration law lesson: political demagoguery works
There are a lot of scary aspects to Arizona's Draconian new immigration law, but the scariest might be this: it has worked like a charm for the politicians who supported it.read more
View ArticleMore on the AJC poll: are we losing touch with our immigrant past?
As I wrote yesterday, one of the most eye popping statistics in the new AJC Survey of American Jewish Public Opinion was Question 3, which addressed the controversial Arizona law aimed at illegal...
View ArticleStill more on the AJC Jewish public opinion survey: unasked questions
I know it seems petty to complain about the American Jewish Committee's annual survey of Jewish public opinion ( the latest was released last week, and got a lot of ink in the Jewish Week.)read more
View ArticleCurve Ball For Jewish Leaders On Immigration
Doug Chandler Special To The Jewish Week Some wonder if American Jewry’s traditional empathy for all newcomers could be waning.One of the rare issues on which nearly all mainstream Jewish...
View ArticlePro-immigration forces' worst nightmare about to come true
If you're among that Jewish faction – formerly a majority, now we're not so sure – that favors fairly liberal immigration policies and sees comprehensive immigration reform including a path to...
View ArticleJewish Groups Praise DADT Repeal, Lament death of DREAM act
Ron Kampeas JTA WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Jewish groups praised the U.S. Senate’s passage of a law allowing gays to serve openly in the military and lamented its failure to legalize undocumented migrants...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman spearheads 'Don't Ask' repeal, DREAM act dies
Well, I'll say this for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the only Orthodox Jew in the Senate: he lives up to his party label as “independent.”Just when it looked like he was just a hair's breadth from...
View ArticleImmigration Reform Is Moral And Religious Duty
Rabbi Seth M. Limmer Special To The Jewish Week Our Jewish story is one of migration. Our Jewish American story is one of receiving safe refuge on this nation’s shores. From our seminal Exodus saga...
View ArticleJewish Women's Group Head Among 100 Arrested At Immigration Protest
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Sammie Moshenberg, director of Washington operations for the National Council of Jewish Women, was among more than 100 activists arrested Thursday at an immigration reform...
View ArticleHow Did They Find Out: Obama Waging War On Whites
Barack Obama has been waging a “war on whites” since coming to office, with an aim to “divide us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things.” That charge comes from the...
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