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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

A gaggle of Jewish leaders met with a record number of Senate Democrats today – 22 lawmakers in all, according to one count, including most of the top leadership.

The meeting, put together by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), demonstrated the breadth of concerns of the community, according to several participants.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

As this blog reported last week, longtime U.S. Middle East peace negotiator and pro-Israel think tanker Dennis Ross is going over to the White House; as numerous blogs have reported, it’s something of a promotion for Ross, who had a nebulous role at the State Department as a special envoy to something or other.

Here’s what the NSC spokesman had to say:

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Anybody  who thinks the Bibi Netanyahu government will be dull just isn’t paying attention.

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Larry Cohler-Esses

It was in Grant Park, at East Ninth Street, that my past revisited me amid the cacophony of Barack Obama’s victorious night in Chicago last week.