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News Newsdesk October 21, 2005
Press Group Files Brief An organization that advocates freedom of the press is asking a federal court to accept an amicus brief. The brief highlights the dangers to journalistic freedoms that may be caused by trying two former pro-Israel lobbyists and one former Pentagon employee for communicating classified information. Last week the Washington-based Reporters Committee…
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
The shabut, a kosher fish that ancient Jewish sages said tastes like pork, has arrived in Israel. The fish, which is described in the Talmud as having a piglike taste, was shipped from Iran in formaldehyde by Israeli academics recently, with the help of an Iranian liaison, The Jerusalem Post reported. Medieval commentator Rashi noted…
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News Report Fuels Suspicion Over Aipac Probe
WASHINGTON — After a recently promoted State Department official was linked last week to spying allegations against the pro-Israel lobby, Jewish communal leaders are again suggesting nefarious motives behind the investigation. The New York Times reported August 18 that David Satterfield, the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Baghdad, was one of two previously unnamed…
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
Arab leaders frequently accuse Jewish settlers of stealing their land. Now, they complain, the settlers also have stolen the color orange. An Israeli judge recently dismissed a suit filed in June by the Israel Arab political party Balad, accusing right-wing Israeli organizations of stealing a symbol — the color orange — that it says has…
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News Settlers Vow To Continue Gaza March
KFAR MAIMON, Israel — Days of clashes between anti-disengagement protesters and Israeli police and soldiers ended in an uneasy standoff at midweek, with protesters vowing to continue an illegal march toward Gaza that police just as firmly vowed to prevent. Some 20,000 protesters set out Monday from the Negev town of Netivot, aiming to reach…
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News Sharanksy Rejected Before WZO Vote
An election for the next chairman of the World Zionist Organization appeared to come down, like so much else in Israel these days, to a fight over the Gaza disengagement plan. The race pitted Ze’ev Bielski, a centrist member of the Likud Party who supports disengagement, against Natan Sharansky, another Likud Party member, who resigned…
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News Newsdesk July 1, 2005
Gonzales Reaches Out Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met with leaders of the Anti-Defamation League last week for his third powwow with Jewish communal leaders since early May. During the meeting, he vowed to make himself accessible to the Jewish community, as well as to other minority groups in America. Officials at Jewish organizations said that…
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News Shifting Political Alliances Raise Alarm for U.K. Jews
British Prime Minister Tony Blair goes to the voters next week to seek a third term, following a brief but heated election campaign in which his most controversial decision, taking his nation to war in Iraq, hardly played a role. But while the Middle East appears to have caused few problems for Blair during the…
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