Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Intel Bombshell Sends Community Scrambling To Hold Line on Iran Threat
American Jewish groups are scrambling to reformulate their message on Iran following the release this week of a new American intelligence report that states with “high confidence” that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago. In a conference call Tuesday hurriedly arranged by the umbrella body of Jewish organizations, communal leaders decided to…
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News In the Wake of Annapolis, Other Fronts Develop
In a bid to reassert itself in a region where it long held sway, Russia has re-entered the Middle East diplomatic fray by serving as a go-between for Israel and Syria and by offering to host a follow-up meeting to last week’s peace summit in Annapolis, Md. In the run-up to the summit, to which…
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News Diaspora Groups and Israel Spar at Summit
In a rare public spat between Israel and its supporters in the United States, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert bluntly denounced efforts by a coalition of American Jewish groups aimed at maintaining a united Jerusalem. Following statements by several hawkish and Orthodox groups that appeared to question Israel’s right to broach discussion of dividing Jerusalem with…
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News An Unlikely Visitor Gives Musharraf Support
A few days before Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte traveled to Islamabad last week to impress upon General Pervez Musharraf the need to restore democratic rule in Pakistan, another American envoy quietly landed in the capital to chat with the Pakistani president and army chief. With the blessing of Washington, Jack Rosen, chairman of…
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News Arab Leaders Pessimistic About Summit
The absence of Arab governments from the Camp David summit in 2000 was by most accounts a major factor in the breakdown in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the subsequent outbreak of the second inifada. With the warring parties set to make another go of negotiations next week in Annapolis, Md., Washington appears to have learned…
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News With Certain Topics Kept off Table, Rabbis and Imams Find Common Ground
Hoping to replicate the successful Jewish-Christian outreach of the past 50 years, a group of mainstream rabbis and imams is launching an ambitious attempt to forge a national dialogue between American Jews and Muslims. Last week, imams and rabbis from a dozen large American cities gathered in New York to discuss a broad range of…
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News Nazi-Avenging Tell-All Met With Cries of ‘Baloney’
To Nazi hunters, Aribert Heim is the most coveted target still at large. The German and Austrian governments, as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, all believe that the so-called Butcher of Mauthausen is alive, and they are offering $430,000 for information on him. They periodically send investigators around the world to find him, most…
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News New Satellite Images Bolster Israel’s Case, But Also Help Its Enemies To Aim
Palestinian militants are using the popular satellite mapping program Google Earth to choose targets for their rockets, a British newspaper reported last week. The report, in the left-leaning Guardian of London, followed repeated complaints that Google’s upgraded mapping program endangers Israel’s security by providing details of sensitive sites. The Guardian reported that Gaza-based members of…
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