as we inch closer to katrinas 1 year anniversary the neverending story of how badly this government screwed up flows onward. the title of this post are the words of president bush from almost a year ago at the republican jewish coalitions 20th anniversary. well other folks are saying that his quote might not be so accurate. today house democrats released a report on just how bad the process of ......
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some belated dc blogging bringing review of the awesome peace cafe at poets and busboys as a part of the washington jewish music festival. some great events still ahead including saturday nights bugalu so chchcheck it out. after a full day of travel meetings and attending some of day one of the tikkun conference more on that later i trudged over to busboys and poets for the performance. wasnt e......
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cross posted at jspot and the riot act 4pm eastern time quickly approaches. support immigrants rights find a rally here or here and attend it. a common toast among jews is may you live to 120. 120 being the ripe old age moshe rabeinu was when he looked out over the promised land without actually getting to enter it. the idea behind the toast is not just may you have the length of years of mos......
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you know i try to get behind the concept of union politics as strongly as ruby k and josh do. and i really admire them for all the work they do. but then something like this happens.the story is that a plumbers union in philly was protesting over the plan to install waterless urinals still not quite sure how that works in a new skyscraper in philadelphia. they were upset about the loss of union......
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