Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Strauss-Kahn’s Journey From Acceptance to Sex Scandal
Update: On May 18, Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned his position as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. On May 19, he was released on bail. PARIS — Just weeks ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn worried aloud that his Jewish identity would be exploited during France’s upcoming presidential campaign. In what were to have been off-the-record meetings with…
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News J Street, European Style: New Dovish Lobby Launches
A new group that includes some of Europe’s best-known pro-Israel intellectuals is calling for international pressure on Israel to foreswear Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Self-consciously styled after the dovish American pro-Israel lobby J Street, JCall has provoked the anger of Europe’s Jewish establishment in a phenomenon similar in some…
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News Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors
In a concerted campaign targeting the credibility of Human Rights Watch, Israel and some of its supporters are charging the group sought to raise funds from wealthy Saudis in part by highlighting its criticisms of Israel and the group’s resistance to pro-Israel forces in Washington. This funding appeal to an audience likely to be hostile…
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News American Jewish Leaders Ease Up Campaign Against United Nations
National Jewish leaders have pulled back on their long-standing campaign against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides humanitarian services for Palestinian refugees — an early sign of caution in confronting a new administration, and of Congress’s determination reshape the country’s stance toward the U.N. more favorably. The Jewish leaders’ push to reform…
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News Antisemitic Incidents Rise in France as Worry Increases About Ethnic Divisions
Paris — For two weekends in a row, as Israel’s operation in Gaza raged, the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas flew in street demonstrations in Paris and other French cities. During the recent violence, antisemitic incidents rose to levels that have not been seen in France since the second Intifadah in 2000 and again when…
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News U.N. Resolution Is Bush’s Last Attempt To Save Annapolis Peace Process
With its days in office running out, the Bush administration turned to the United Nations to put its imprimatur on the struggling peace initiative that the United States launched in Annapolis, Md., a little more than a year ago. In a resolution co-sponsored by the United States and Russia, the U.N. Security Council declared its…
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News Merkin Seen as Enabler for Madoff
J. Ezra Merkin, the scion of a prominent family known for its generous support of Modern Orthodoxy, has emerged as a key link between a constellation of Orthodox institutions and Bernard Madoff, the Jewish financier now under house arrest for masterminding an alleged $50 billion fraud. Merkin and Madoff served together on the board of…
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News Presidents Conference Silent on Hebron
While major Jewish groups have publicly condemned the violence perpetrated by West Bank settlers against Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Hebron this month, the main voice of American Jewry has remained silent. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella body of 51 Jewish groups, has not issued a statement about…
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