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Lifelong Five Towns resident David Friedman, whose father was an iconic rabbinical leader and who has dined with two U.S. presidents, is now the nation’s 20th ambassador to Israel since the Jewish state was established as an independent country in 1948.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/29/17
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Elected leaders often look upon the Freedom of Information Act with barely disguised disapproval, and more often with outright disdain. Heck, the president who signed the act . . .
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3/23/17
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In 1917, the International Committee of the Red Cross received its first of three Nobel Peace Prizes for its life-saving work on the nightmarish battlefields of World War I. The Long Island chapter of the Red Cross was founded . . .
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3/16/17
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David Friedman was in his element, as the bankruptcy lawyer had a legal pad and pencil by his side as he would in court, at his confirmation hearing in front of the 21-member Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 16.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/15/17
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The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Thursday in favor of David Friedman's nomination to be the nation’s next ambassador to Israel.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/8/17
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It was America, in its earliest days. The settlers were religious and community-minded, good people who cared for their children and worked desperately to survive in a forbidding environment. They were settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony . . .
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3/3/17
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Knowing David Friedman for nearly half a century, Five Towns resident Cindy Grosz believes her former North Woodmere neighbor will make an excellent envoy to Israel because he is “real and authentic.”
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2/22/17
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Well, far-left liberals got exactly what they wanted: a caricature of a president against whom a resistance movement could coalesce. Right-wing conservatives got exactly what they wanted . . .
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2/17/17
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We were supposed to have been healed by now, right? With the first African-American president finally elected not once but twice, the nation was supposed to be . . .
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2/2/17
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Russia. Friend? Enemy? Campaign and political pawn is more like it these days.
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12/22/16
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