Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Demographics Drive Likud’s Shifting Agenda
WASHINGTON — Driving the Likud’s metamorphosis from “Greater Israel” dogmatism to separation pragmatism are not constraints of geography but of demography. “Above all hovers the cloud of demographics,” Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea of Yediot Aharonot last week, explaining his dramatic decision to come out in favor of unilateral Israeli…
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News UJC Names Vice President For Policy, Replacing Aviv
WASHINGTON — The country’s leading Jewish charitable network has tapped someone to replace its departed powerhouse Washington director. The United Jewish Communities last week announced that it had hired Charles Konigsberg, a longtime congressional staffer, to replace Diana Aviv as the organization’s vice president for public policy. The appointment ends the fitful, six-month effort to…
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News Funding Lower for Senior-care Program
WASHINGTON — Federal funding for a senior-care program pioneered by Jewish welfare federations is being reduced, with a record number of communities splitting the decreased pie. Twenty-one Jewish federations — up from 13 in 2003 — are expected to receive federal funds for the experimental program, known as Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, or NORCs. According…
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News Israel Riled As Geneva ‘Pact’ Gains Supporters
WASHINGTON — As tensions grew between Israel and America this week over the Bush administration’s support for the Geneva Understandings, backers of the informal peace plan appear to be winning over some American Jewish groups, threatening to split a key pillar of Jerusalem’s support base in the United States. In one dramatic sign of a…
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News Senate Critic Undeterred by Ford Apology
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans say they plan to push forward with efforts to scrutinize the overseas activities of the Ford Foundation, despite the foundation’s promise last week that it would no longer fund Palestinian groups advocating violence or denying Israel’s legitimacy. “It is still appropriate for there to be ongoing oversight” of the foundation by…
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News Specter Launches New Sanctions Push
WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the overwhelming congressional vote this month to impose sanctions on Syria, Middle East hawks on Capitol Hill are pushing similar legislation targeted at Saudi Arabia. At the same time, most observers say the Bush administration appears unlikely to act against either country. Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, recently introduced a…
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News Feinstein Leads Charge in Senate for Geneva Initiative
WASHINGTON — Five U.S. senators introduced a resolution Tuesday applauding private Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives and calling on President Bush and Israeli and Palestinian leaders to embrace them. A similar resolution is expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives early next month, following the symbolic signing ceremony in Geneva of a “virtual” peace accord…
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News Lawmakers Hail Netanyahu Plan For Economy
WASHINGTON — Republican senators are hailing the plans of Israel’s finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking to heal Israel’s war-ravaged economy with a set of reforms modeled on those of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Last week, Netanyahu impressed a crowd of 10 senators and dozens of congressional staffers on Capitol Hill by describing…
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