Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News O.U. Chief Decries American Pressure on Israel
WASHINGTON — In an unusual ad hominem attack, Orthodox Union President Stephen Savitsky this week criticized the president of the Israel Policy Forum, Seymour Reich, for allegedly urging the Bush administration to pressure Israel into making concessions to the Palestinians. Reich denied having invited American pressure. Savitsky’s criticism came in a November 28 statement calling…
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News Calls To Monitor Pro-Arab Bias Rejected
WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights rejected calls from Jewish organizations last week for federal oversight of government-funded Middle Eastern studies programs at American universities. At a November 18 hearing devoted to the issue of antisemitism on college campuses, the commission heard from three representatives of the Jewish community who argued…
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News U.S.-Funded Report Urges Israel To Take First Step Toward Nuclear Disarmament
WASHINGTON — A new study commissioned and partially funded by the Pentagon urges Israel to take the first step in launching a nuclear disarmament process in the Middle East, arguing that such a move is the only way to block Iran’s development of weapons of mass destruction and head off a regional arms race. The…
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News Rice Trip Raises Concern Over U.S. Pressure on Israel
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s unusual personal involvement this week in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over a border crossing in Gaza has some Jewish organizations voicing concern about American pressure on Jerusalem. In what some observers are describing as an unprecedented intervention for the Bush administration, Rice served as a go-between in negotiations Monday between…
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News Jordan Attacks Cause Arab Backlash Against Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON — Last week’s suicide attacks on three Jordanian hotels has undercut Muslim support for Al Qaeda and the insurgents in Iraq, but also heightened concerns about their ability to strike Israel and other countries, experts said. “Unintentionally perhaps, the United States, through its actions in Iraq, has created a fertile zone where these militant…
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News Palestinians Lobby White House To Press Israel on Arab Voting in Jerusalem
WASHINGTON — Claiming that Israel plans to obstruct Palestinian voting in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority is urging the Bush administration and European governments to pressure Israel to permit unrestricted participation of Jerusalem Arab voters in the upcoming Palestinians elections. At issue, Palestinian officials said, are about 120,000 residents of East Jerusalem who do not…
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News Public Policy Group Taps Liberal Activist in D.C.
WASHINGTON — The Jewish community’s main public-policy umbrella organization has tapped a liberal activist and a former volunteer for John Kerry’s presidential campaign to head its Washington office. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national coordinating body made up of 13 national Jewish agencies and 125 local Jewish community relations councils, has tapped Hadar…
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News UJC Waging Limited Fight Against Cuts
WASHINGTON — As Congress completes plans to cut deeply into programs that provide basic assistance to low-income families and vulnerable individuals, United Jewish Communities, the Jewish community’s main provider of social services, is focusing on a narrow lobbying agenda on Capitol Hill. The organization is not mobilizing its large network of local federations to oppose…
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