Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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Breaking News Obama Campaign Hits Hasidic Sukkah Circuit
The Obama campaign plunged into the heart of the ultra-Orthodox community at a Sukkot event hosted by a rabbi in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, wearing a yarmulke with “my bubbe votes for Obama” written on it, spoke in a Sukkah with a delegation of rabbis and members from…
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News Israel Seeks U.S. Help To Fight Mob Crime Wave
Faced with a recent surge of mob-related murders, Israel appears to be reaching out to the United States for help in bringing its leading underworld figures to justice. With the cooperation of Israeli authorities, Justice Department officials in the United States are currently preparing to request that a leading Israeli crime boss be extradited to…
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News Talk of Sainthood for Wartime Pope Stirs Anger Among Jewish Groups
After years of quiet diplomacy, the controversy over the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pontiff, has once again burst into the open and renewed tensions between the Vatican and Jewish groups. Jewish leaders are calling on the Vatican to ensure that all relevant archival materials related to Pius XII, also known…
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News U.N. and the West Trying To Prevent Another Anti-Israel ‘Durban’ Meeting
Western governments and United Nations officials are working quietly to prevent a conference on racism, scheduled for Geneva next year, from devolving into another forum for anti-Israel rhetoric. They are hoping to prevent a reoccurrence of what happened seven years ago at the first U.N. summit on racism, held in Durban — the name of…
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News U.S. Mounting Effort To Counter Limits on Speech Critical of Islam
The Bush administration, European governments and advocates of freedom of speech are ramping up efforts to counter what they see as a campaign by Muslim countries to suppress speech about religion, especially Islam. The debate focuses on a United Nations resolution called “Combating Defamation of Religion,” sponsored by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference….
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News The Ibos of Nigeria: Members of the Tribe?
Lagos, Nigeria — Efraim Uba was born and raised Catholic in southeastern Nigeria, the homeland of the Ibo ethnic group. He spent 17 years as a Pentecostal preacher before joining a messianic congregation where members wore yarmulkes and tallits but praised Jesus. In 1999, one congregant traveled to Israel and came back claiming that the…
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News Sparks Fly Over Decision To Exclude Palin
After incurring the wrath of liberal groups for inviting Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to an anti-Iran rally, Malcolm Hoenlein, longtime leader of the main Jewish umbrella organization in America, is being criticized by right-leaning groups for failing to properly consult them. Four hawkish members of the 52-strong Conference of Presidents of Major American…
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Breaking News Coalition Gears Up To Protest Ahmadinejad Dinner
A coalition of Jewish and non-Jewish groups is planning a demonstration to protest a September 25 dinner organized by five American Christian organizations at which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be a featured guest. “These religious leaders are about to betray their brethren across all religions, parties, and countries by ‘honoring’ the tyrannical regime of…
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