Elli Wohlgelernter
By Elli Wohlgelernter
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News ‘Who’s a Jew’ Battle Flares In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — The stage was set this week for a showdown between the Sharon government, the Chief Rabbinate and the Reform and Conservative movements as the long-simmering debate over “who is a Jew” threatened to boil over once again, five years after it was thought to have been laid to rest. Interior Minister Avraham Poraz,…
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News Suit Filed on Immigrants’ Behalf
JERUSALEM – A class-action lawsuit has been filed with the Israeli high court in an effort to force the government to follow through on a February decision to speed up the immigration process for more than 18,000 languishing Ethiopians hoping to immigrate to Israel. Under the plan, which was approved by Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s…
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News Protesters in Israel Demand Freedom for Pollard
JERUSALEM — Protesters demanding freedom for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard staged a mass rally outside the hotel where leaders of American Jewish organizations were gathered this week for the quarterly meeting of the Jewish Agency for Israel. A crowd, estimated by organizers at more than 3,000, assembled at the David’s Citadel Hotel to protest what…
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News Rabbis Urging Action on Ethiopian Jewry
JERUSALEM — Thousands of impoverished Ethiopians fighting for the right to enter Israel have received new support from top rabbis across the religious spectrum. In separate letters to Israeli officials, the head of Reform Judaism in America, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, and Israel’s newly elected Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, urged action to resolve the problem…
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News Settlers Are Challenging Evacuations Of Outposts
JERUSALEM — While American and Egyptian mediators were huddling this week with Israelis and Palestinians over the anti-terrorism provisions of President Bush’s ”road map” to peace, another key point in the plan — dismantling Israeli settlement outposts in the territories — has stalled. Sharon committed himself at the June 4 Aqaba summit to “begin immediately”…
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News Playwright Wins Jerusalem Prize
JERUSALEM — The show must go on, they say, and so, despite the political situation on the ground, and the Iraqi war that forced a three-month postponement, the 21st Jerusalem International Book Fair will open here on Monday at the International Convention Center. The highlight of the fair will be the awarding of the Jerusalem…
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News Rash of ‘Economic Suicides’ Heats Debate on Rising Inequality in Israel
JERUSALEM — Menashe Habakuk was once described as Israel’s golden boy. National judo champion during the late 1980s, he won the gold medal at the 1990 Maccabiah games, married an adoring fan and went to work as a trainer in a studio near Tel Aviv. Six years later he was working part time as an…
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News Meir Wilner, Israeli Communist Head, Dies at 85
JERUSALEM — Meir Wilner, the last surviving signer of Israel’s Declaration of Independence and longtime leader of the Israel Communist Party, died last week at 85. A member of the Knesset from 1949 until he retired in 1990, Wilner was an unrepentant communist to the end. He said in a 1998 interview, on the 50th…
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