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Progressive Breakfast: Tax Cut Redux?
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... and job placement services, subsidized child care, housing vouchers, substance abuse and mental health care, and home energy assistance — but many of these programs require reams of applications that can take weeks or months to process. La Vida Locavore sizes up expectations on Obama's food policy Democracy Arsenal finds great diversity of opinion in the American Jewish community about the Gaza conflict, while Mondoweiss praises J Street for refusing to cave on its call for a cease-fire. The New Yorker's Jeffrey ...

Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly Standard Editors
Wonk Room — ... Goldfarb was at it again yesterday, attacking the pro-Israel, pro-peace group J Street, laughably misrepresenting their positions and accusing them of responding to criticism by blaming a “ ...

Move Over AIPAC, J Street Conference Is Huge
TPMCafe — Check this out. 160 Members of Congress have signed up for J Street's first annual policy conference Who would have thought J Street would get this far in one year. There are three factors that produced its growth. These are in addition to the vision of Jeremy Ben Ami who first had the idea for J Street a decade ago. In just over a year, he has created a powerhouse that has broken the perception in Washington that the American Jewish community speaks in one voice behind settlements, the occupation, and war over diplomacy to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian ...