Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Wave of Violence Hits North Africa as Terrorists Take to Surfing the Web
Rabat, Morocco – Last month Hicham Doukkali packed a gas canister with explosives and blew himself up next to a bus full of tourists in the imperial city of Meknes. No one was hurt besides Doukkali, who lost an arm, but the attack was particularly troubling nonetheless. Doukkali was not a young discontent from the…
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News Quintet of Jews Runs for Office in Casablanca
Casablanca, Morocco – Last Friday’s election here was watched closely around the world as an electoral bellwether for moderate Islam, but the moderate Islamists were not the only candidates to draw attention for their religious views. No fewer than five Moroccan Jews, three of them women, ran in the elections. None of them ended up…
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News Top Reform Rabbi Gives Watershed Address to Largest U.S. Muslim Group
The head of America’s largest Jewish denomination last week became the first top Jewish communal leader in recent memory to address a major American Muslim organization. At the 44th annual conference of Chicago’s Islamic Society of North America last Friday, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, called for an end to…
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News Calls Grow for Creation of Standing U.N. Army
United Nations – With the unchecked violence in Darfur exposing the United Nations’ continued inability to respond quickly to unfolding crises, several members of Congress have joined an international coalition of nongovernmental organizations in calling for a standing emergency peacekeeping force. The envisioned U.N. Emergency Peace Service would be 15,000 to 18,000 strong and include…
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News Armenian Genocide Crisis Tests Tight Ties Between Turkey and Israel
Turkish, Israeli and American Jewish officials held frantic consultations in the past week in an effort to defuse a diplomatic crisis prompted by the Anti-Defamation League’s recent description of the Ottoman massacre of Armenians during World War I as “tantamount to genocide.” Senior Israeli and American Jewish officials went out of their way to restate…
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News New Restrictions on Religious Workers Draw Fire From Faith-Based Groups
An effort by the Bush administration to tighten regulation of a special visa program for religious workers is drawing fire from a variety of faith-based groups, who argue that the move could amount to a violation of religious freedom. In April, after reports of widespread fraud in its “temporary religious workers” visa program, the Department…
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News Book Reveals Details of Iran’s Diplomatic Outreach to Israel
A soon to be released book details previously unknown backroom contacts between Iran and Israel in 2003, when Tehran was pushing the Bush administration into entering comprehensive diplomatic negotiations. In “Treacherous Alliance,” Trita Parsi, an adjunct professor at John Hopkins University and president of the National Iranian American Council, contends that shortly after Iran proposed…
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News Syria Talks Open, But May Soon Close
Last week, Syria and Israel acknowledged that they had held indirect peace negotiations. But a month after the Bush administration lifted its objections to Israeli overtures to Syria, Damascus is signaling a limit to its diplomacy unless the road to Jerusalem goes through Washington. In a July 17 address to the Syrian parliament, President Bashar…
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