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The Czech native also helmed 'The Firemen's Ball,' 'Hair,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' and 'Man on the Moon.' Milos Forman, the anti-authoritarian director who left his native Czechoslovakia for creative freedom in the U.S. and captured Oscars for the masterpieces One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, has died. He was 86. Forman, also known for two biopics about controversial Americans — The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999) — died Friday after a short illness, according to his wife, Martina, who broke the news to the Czech news agency CTK. His manager,...

The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) recently announced that Barack Obama has named its former executive director, Ira Forman, as his Jewish outreach director. Mr. Forman's tenure at NJDC includes the publication of anti-Christian hate material under color of Judaism, which could easily evoke reciprocal ill feelings from Christians who do not realize that NJDC has almost as little to do with Judaism as the Westboro Baptist Church has to do with Christianity. ...Double standards are routine to NJDC and Mr. Forman, who in 2007 condemned Mitt Romney for appearing at the Henry Ford Museum. "Mitt Romney's embrace of Henry...

In picking a Jewish outreach coordinator for his re-election campaign, Barack Obama tapped the man who literally wrote the book on Jews in politics (actually, an anthology of Jewish politicians), Ira Forman.

Ira N. Forman, Executive Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) today released the following statement: Today, Senator John McCain made his first critical presidential decision with his selection of his Vice Presidential running mate. McCain’s judgment appears lacking. In Governor Sarah Palin McCain chooses a running mate with zero foreign policy experience and a brewing scandal which is being investigated by the Alaska state legislature. The contrast with Senator Joe Biden could not be starker and more unfavorable for the soon to be Republican nominee. For a party which claims it is trying to reach out to the...

The Zionist Organization of America has “called upon Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to quit his racist, anti-American, anti-Israel church and repudiate his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.” Noting that the National Jewish Democratic Council condemned Mitt Romney for appearing at the museum of a long-dead EX-antisemite, we are confident that NJDC will support ZOA’s request. Henry Ford retracted and repudiated The International Jew, but Jeremiah Wright has never retracted, repudiated, or apologized for his own hate speech, his publication of a manifesto from a genuine Hamas terrorist, or his placement of quote marks around “state” of Israel, as if...

The National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, there is little either Jewish or Democratic about it) just published a fascinating guest column by NJDC activist Steve Sheffey. We thought we had seen every conceivable form of chutzpah, but this takes the prize for all time shamelessness: "So I say to my Republican friends, continue to vote Republican if you want to, but remember: When the Messiah comes, it’s 87% likely that he’ll be a Democrat." Q: How do you know a National Jewish Democratic Council blogger is lying? A: His fingers are moving over a keyboard. This has been our...

The Israel Committee against Home Demolitions (ICHAD) is the primary NGO that fights against the virtually blanket refusal by the Jerusalem Municipality to grant building permits to east Jerusalem Palestinians. This discriminatory policy is based on Jewish political considerations and not on the social needs of the Palestinian population. Often, when permits are rejected, some Palestinians feel forced to violate this trumped-up law that is prejudicially applied to them, and illegally add a room or construct a new home. Soon afterward, under orders of the municipality, not only is the new home demolished, but also if only a room has...

To: Ira Forman, Steve Rabin, and posted to the Internet From: William Levinson Subject: Democratic appearance at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Dear Mr. Forman and Mr. Rabin. Noting that the National Jewish Democratic Council has: (1) Condemned John McCain’s use of the phrase “tar baby” as racist (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/03/mccain_uses_rac.html, posted by Steve Rabin) (2) Criticized Mitt Romney for making a speech at the Henry Ford Museum (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/03/njdc_executive_.html, by Ira Forman) because of its connection to a long-dead EX-antisemite, noting that Ford retracted and repudiated “The International Jew.” (3) Posted an article (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/04/mil_journalsent.html) that called for Tommy Thompson to drop out...

After the Nevada Democratic Party cancelled a Presidential debate on Fox News, the major Democratic candidates (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joseph Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson) have all agreed to speak at the conference of an anti-Christian and anti-Semitic hate organization: the National Jewish Democratic Council. We have previously shown (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=4275) that this is a double oxymoron, as there is nothing either Jewish or Democratic about this organization. The National “Jewish” Democratic Council is Anti-Semitic ...In contrast to Jews who cooperated with Nazis because they had guns (often literally) to their heads, NJDC leader Ira Forman was under...