Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Secret FBI Files Reveal Hoover’s Obsession With Militant Rabbi
The FBI closely monitored the militant Jewish Defense League and its fiery leader Rabbi Meir Kahane out of concern that the group’s protests and violent action could hurt fragile diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, according to government documents obtained by the Forward. The documents, many of them labeled “confidential” and partly redacted, reveal a…
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News Iran Proposal for Shoah Probe Rebuffed by Europeans
With the International Atomic Energy Agency set to hold another crucial meeting on Iran, Tehran proposed to send its own inspectors to investigate the veracity of the Auschwitz death camp. At the meeting, scheduled for March 6, the nuclear watchdog agency is expected to decide whether to refer Iran’s nuclear program to the United Nations…
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News Murder Leaves French Jews Reeling
Just as French officials and Jewish communal leaders were hailing the sharp drop in antisemitic incidents in 2005, their long-held greatest fear occurred: A young Jewish man was murdered because of his religion. The naked and mutilated body of Ilan Halimi, 23, was found last week in a Paris suburb after he spent 21 days…
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News Neoconservatives, Evangelicals Join Liberals on Energy
Two pillars of support for President Bush’s Iraq policy — neoconservative foreign policy hawks and evangelical Christians — have begun lining up with liberals and environmentalists in challenging the White House’s energy policy. The issue gained national attention in recent weeks, after President Bush declared in the State of the Union address that the United…
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News Concerns Mounting Over Fate of Iranian Jewry
With international tensions at a fever pitch over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the violent reaction in Tehran to the European cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad, concerns are rising about the fate of the Iranian Jewish community after its departing head took an unusual public swipe at the president of the Islamic Republic. Haroun Yeshaya,…
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News Iran, Syria Said To Be Stoking Riots
As Muslim fury mounted this week over a Danish newspaper’s cartoon images of Muhammad, indications were growing that two of America’s and Israel’s most intractable foes — Iran and Syria — were fueling the controversy in an effort to blunt the growing diplomatic coordination between Europe and the United States. Protests erupted across the Muslim…
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News U.N. Commemorates the Shoah With a Rare Show of Emotion
For a change, the United Nations felt like home last week. Holocaust survivors, their families and friends took the seats of pinstriped diplomats in the U.N.’s massive General Assembly hall. Emotional speeches replaced impersonal debates about war and poverty. And bitter exchanges over Israel and Palestine gave way to a dignified ceremony of remembrance of…
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News Jewish Organizations Plan a Big Push Against Genocide in Darfur
Jolted by the tepid response to the genocide in Darfur, Jewish communal organizations are mobilizing at an unprecedented level for an issue that might appear tangential to Jewish concerns. National and local Jewish organizations are gearing up for a rally to be held April 30 in Washington under the aegis of the Save Darfur Coalition,…
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