Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Liberal Activists Strive To Reclaim Faith
WASHINGTON — Vowing to break the religious right’s monopoly in harnessing religion to politics, hundreds of liberal activists — Christians, Jews, Muslims and others — convened in Washington last week for what they hope will be the kickoff of a new movement rooted in an historic tradition of religion-inspired American liberalism. “We are not here…
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News Administration Pushes Disengagement Plan for Gaza
WASHINGTON — Though skeptical about the reliability of the political process in Jerusalem, the Bush administration and its international partners are pushing hard for implementation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan after it was approved Sunday by his Cabinet. The Bush administration reacted with guarded relief this week to the passage of Sharon’s plan…
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News Jewish Groups Step Up Efforts To Help Sudanese
WASHINGTON — After months of inaction, Jewish organizations are stepping up their efforts to call attention to the rising threat of a government-backed genocide in Sudan and to raise money for the country’s massive population of non-Arab Muslim refugees. The Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, an umbrella organization of 40 Jewish associations that meets on…
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Culture U.S. Groups Warn Israel On Failure To Pull Out
WASHINGTON — American Jewish communal leaders are warning Prime Minister Sharon that a failure to implement his Gaza pullout plan could jeopardize Jerusalem’s relations with the Bush administration. Sharon and members of his Cabinet received this blunt assessment last week from media mogul and real estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman, the immediate past chairman of the…
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News Agreement To Preserve Jewish Sites in Poland Hailed
WASHINGTON — Underscoring an intensifying effort to confront its troubled past, Poland has signed an agreement with the United States to preserve and restore historic Jewish sites in Poland. The agreement, signed last month in Washington, is the latest in a series of accords America has signed with European governments since 1992 to preserve Jewish…
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News Ex-Mideast Envoy Zinni Charges Neocons Pushed Iraq War To Benefit Israel
The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America’s most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that the war had been fought for Israel’s benefit, just days after a similar charge was…
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News Fearing GOP Gains, Democrats Boost Jewish Outreach
WASHINGTON — Already fearing potential Republican gains among Jewish voters, Democrats were scrambling this week to undo any damage caused by a series of inflammatory outbursts by one of their own — Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina. Many Democrats were particularly worried over the sight of President Bush being cheered last week by…
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News President Avoids Refugees, Borders In Aipac Speech
WASHINGTON – With 5,000 cheering Jewish citizen-lobbyists serving as both an audience and a potential prize, President Bush and Israel’s Prime Minister Sharon engaged in a dramatic round of diplomatic shadow-boxing this week, each seeking to dictate to the other the pace of upcoming Middle East peace moves. The arena for the sparring was the…
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