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Unlit Candle: Awareness of Oppression During the Festival of Freedom
By
Esther Kustanowitz
Every year, Jews celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, often using the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of the holiday’s themes: oppression, freedom, and liberation. When I was growing up, our synagogues and schools urged us to remember the refuseniks, Jews who had been denied exit visas by Soviet authorities. In more recent years,…
British Author Barred from Entering U.S. for Reasons of ‘Morality’
By
Donna Freitas
Apparently, U.S. Customs is not only protecting citizens from terrorists entering the country, but also from British writers with questionable morals. In this week’s New York Times “Possessed” column, David Colman writes about “infamously debauched writer” Sebastian Horsley and his adventure at Newark Airport trying to enter the United States from Britain on an author…
Politico Pop: Purloined Campaign Anthems
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Ellen Leventry
There’s a serious ethical issue that surrounds this year’s presidential campaign. No, it’s not pulling out of the war in Iraq or universal healthcare, but a little thing known as campaign music clearance, a point illustrated once again by Democrat John Mellencamp asking Republican John McCain to stop using his music as a rallying cry…
And Idol Chatter Predicts It (sort of): Haysbert Endorses Obama
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Esther Kustanowitz
We don’t often gloat here at Idol Chatter. But last week we published a post by guest blogger John Brooks, who wrote about Obama as “America’s Second Black President,” second to David Palmer, who rose to Presidential power via the powers that be at FOX, who “elected” him as the Commander in Chief during the…
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