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Washington - For a candidate intent on courting the Jewish vote, some of the headlines for Sen. Barack Obama in recent weeks have been less than heartening.

"Obama comment draws fire from Jews," the Des Moines Register declared after the senator's unscripted remark at an Iowa campaign stop in March that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" from stalled peace efforts with the Israelis.

"Obama on the Mideast: Not quite comfortable," The Chicago Jewish Star said after his first major policy speech on the Middle East, to a pro-Israel group in his hometown.

And at last week's Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, Senator Obama's omission of Israel in response to a question about America's top allies gave moderator Brian Williams an opening to revisit the Iowa flap in front of a television audience of more than 2 million.

No mention was made of Obama Christ.

“If you search through Jewish stories around the U.S., a lot of us have pieces of personal memory where non-Jews were there for us — not because they had a hidden agenda, but because they believed it was the right thing to do,” said Michal Kohane, the Israeli-born executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region. “There is a strong aspect of CUFI in which they are the descendants of that ideological concept.”

Just as liberals have criticized Aipac for giving Hagee the dais, they are now speaking out against the pastor’s grass-roots fundraising dinners. Most recently, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, Betty McCollum, declined an invitation to attend an April 29 “Night To Honor Israel” in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, citing what she called “Hagee’s extremism, bigotry and intolerance.”

"We have no time to listen to Jewish American children!!! If you don't believe us, just try talking to us." Then there is an obscene reference to "a homoerotic cop" and what that cop should do to Weiss. It concludes "Heil Weiss!"

Weiss, who is Jewish, plans to run for city attorney in 2009. He has been under fire for his pro-development policies (not that I am drawing any parallels between that and the vandalism).

Coinciding this morning with the National Day of Prayer, Mitchell Gold's Faith in America announced it would commence Sunday a five-city "Call to Courage" campaign. Target cities are off the beaten path: Ames, Iowa; Reno, Nevada; Manchester, New Hampshire; Greenville, South Carolina; and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Here's the word from the Newark Star-Ledger, which broke the story online today:

As my friend Manya Brachear points out on her blog for the Chicago Tribune, Gere's actions "enraged some Hindus who thought the public display violated laws of public obscenity."

If apprehended, Gere can be sent to jail for up to three months, fined or both. He is not in India now but can be held if he visits the country again, which he does for at least three weeks each year to study Tibetan Buddhism under the tutelage of the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India. He is also involved with AIDS prevention groups there.

The sect's high priest opened the ceremony with a prayer in the Samaritan tongue, a dialect of ancient Hebrew. Then ritual slaughterers killed sheep, skinned them, and roasted them in large ovens. According to tradition, the meat must be ready in the middle of the night - the time that the Angel of Death killed the Egyptian firstborn in the biblical story - and the Samaritans eat it in haste along with unleavened bread, emulating the ancient Israelites.

"I am so sick and tired of trying to be like everybody else," a 19-year-old from Crystal Lake, Ill., wrote on ivescrewedup.com. "If someone asked me for 3 words to describe myself, I'd have no words. It's like I will do anything with anybody to please somebody all the time....this is insane, I confess that I don't know who I am and that I wish I did."

That was from an e-mail from the publicist for JWT, the largest advertising agency in the U.S. The report on their Web site was given the headline, "Traditional American values are thriving among muslims in the U.S."

The study looked at broad sentiments among Muslims, but focused on their feelings about the way they are marketed to:

Here is what the head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles had to say in advance of today's protests:

While only the U.S. Senate passed meaningful immigration reform legislation in 2006,May 1" 2007 once again gives us the opportunity to support our immigrant brothers and sisters by calling on our legislators to bring an end to the persecution of immigrants and the separation of immigrant families, and fix our broken immigration system that benefits from the hard work of immigrants, while keeping them in the shadows of society.

Two weeks after three Bible sellers were murdered by Turkish zeoloats, the at least 700,000 secular protesters were concerned about what Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul's campaign for presidency would mean for non-religious Turks living in Istanbul and other major cities.

“People here are the real Turkey," one protester told the New York Times:

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