Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice

In an event of staggering proportions, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace last week in the wake of a prostitution scandal. News like this hasn't rocked the country since...well, since the last time a tri-state area governor resigned in disgrace. Okay, maybe not such staggering proportions after all.Spitzer was one of the highest ranking Jews in American government, rivaled only by figures like Senators Chuck Schumer and Joseph Lieberman. Until the scandal broke last Monday, there was a fair chance that Spitzer would eventually become America's first Jewish President. Now that path has changed forever, and the investigation revealed that an Israeli citizen named Mark Brener was at the heart of the prostitution ring associated with the fall of Eliot Spitzer.What's that you say? An American Jew in a high government office? An Israeli? Let the cry of conspiracy ring forth throughout the land! ...

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We all know of the controversy surrounding Columbia University this week. A lunatic, a sponsor of terror who is actively building a nuclear weapons program, was given a podium at this respected American institution. In a move that was likely prompted by the criticism Columbia had faced in the days leading to the event, University President Lee Bollinger gave an introduction meant to distance the school from the statements made by their guest, ...

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The Israeli government took several long overdue steps this Wednesday that will fundamentally change the status of relations between Israel and Gaza. The first and most fundamental, is that Gaza has been declared an “enemy entity”. This declaration should have been made the day Israel left Gaza two years ago. The Palestinians decision not to make a state out of the territory that they have complete control over should not be allowed ...

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Last Thursday, Israeli aircraft violated Syrian airspace and did...something.  No one seems quite sure what.  Israel has been almost completely silent on the subject, only reluctantly admitting that the flight even occurred, and continuing to refuse to comment on what exactly happened.To date, I have seen the following "reports" on what "actually" happened.Damascus is claiming Israel fired several missiles at the ground, but won't say what the targets were.  They seem to ...

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The Second World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance took place last week, once again in Durban, South Africa.  For those of you who don't remember, the last time this conference was held was in August 2001, and at that time it turned into such an obvious propaganda platform for anti-America and anti-Israel rhetoric, that Secretary of State Colin Powell ordered the American delegation to return home early.  This year's conference proved ...

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