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By Forward Staff
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News Newsdesk March 26, 2004
Islamist Warns of Plot Leaders of the Jewish community in Serbia received a letter from an inmate with links to Islamist militants stating that he had been ordered to attack Aca Singer, president of the Jewish federation of Serbia-Montenegro, during the High Holy Days last year and that the plot was still on, the Forward…
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News Newsdesk March 19, 2004
Beilin To Lead New Party TEL AVIV — Foreign policy maverick Yossi Beilin won the election Tuesday as leader of the newly formed Yahad Party, edging out veteran Meretz lawmaker Ran Cohen. Beilin won 53.5% of the votes, showing strongly in big cities and Arab communities, while Cohen took 46.5%, doing well among kibbutzim. Yahad…
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News Last-Minute Gifts for the Last of Eight Nights
FOR THE MUSIC LOVER Just in time for Chanukah, the first lady of American Jewish song has come out with a new CD that wraps the holiday spirit in the rocking beat that her legions of fans have come to love: “Light These Lights: Debbie Friedman Sings Chanukah Songs for the Whole Family” (Sounds Write…
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News Newsdesk November 28, 2003
Hillel Leader Sued Los Angeles freelance journalist Rachel Neuwirth filed a complaint against UCLA Hillel Director Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles Hillel Council and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, in the Los Angeles Superior Court on November 20, seeking undisclosed damages for battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction…
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News Newsdesk November 21, 2003
Ford To Stop Funding Hate The Ford Foundation admitted it erred in funding anti-Israel groups and pledged to stop funding antisemitic activities. The foundation said it was “disgusted” by anti-Israel and antisemitic agitation at the 2001 U.N. Conference Against Racism at Durban, South Africa, which the foundation helped finance. In a letter to Rep. Jerrold…
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News Newsdesk November 14, 2003
Lobbyist Lands New Post A pro-Israel activist recently dismissed from the Zionist Organization of America quickly found a new home with the American Jewish Congress. Sarah Stern, who headed the ZOA’s Washington office for six years until she was dismissed earlier this month, will assume the same post at AJCongress. Stern left the ZOA on…
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News American Stores Pull Formula Off Their Shelves
In a small reminder that the fate of American Jews is never far removed from that of Israelis, the panic over a defective Remedia baby formula quickly spread to the Orthodox enclaves of New York, where some Remedia products are sold in stores. There have been no reported cases of sickness in America so far,…
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News Newsdesk October 3, 2003
Arab Leader Praised Bombing A top American Muslim leader who was charged this week for illegally obtaining money from Libya and financing terrorism in the United States and abroad once hailed the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Argentina, according to the court testimony of a federal agent. “The Jewish community center, it…
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