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Waiting Game: What Did Abbas Mean?
While Mahmoud Abbas’s meeting with President Obama was widely described as uneventful, comments the Palestinian leader made in a Washington Post interview before entering the White House have led to a feisty debate within the Jewish community. In an interview with the Post’s Jackson Diehl, published May 29, the Palestinian president spoke freely, expressing a…
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In New Book, Ross, Top Envoy To Iran, Is Skeptical of Diplomatic Engagement
Since assuming his post as special adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Iran matters, Ambassador Dennis Ross has stepped back and refrained from discussing in public his suggestions for dealing with Tehran. However, in a book he co-wrote before assuming his new position, Ross reveals a skeptical approach toward one of the Obama…
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Long Strike at Chicago Hotel Pits Jew Against Jew
Nearly six years after the housekeepers and dishwashers at the Congress Plaza Hotel first went on strike, the enormous hotel here on Chicago’s lakefront shows the marks of being a battle zone in America’s labor wars. Outside, the workers who went on strike in 2003 have kept up a nearly constant picket line in front…
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Pollsters Find Israeli Public Less Supportive Of Settlements
In previous decades, an American president who pressured Israel to freeze settlement growth, as President Obama has done, would have riled large sections of Israel’s Jewish population. But public sympathy for settlers and the settlements is currently at an all-time low, adding a new dimension to the sometimes tense relationship between Washington and Jerusalem. Pollsters…
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Popular Rabbi’s Comments on Treatment of Arabs Show a Different Side of Chabad
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad. But Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when…
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Orthodox Video Silent on Reporting Sexual Abuse to Police
A government-funded video made by one of New York’s largest Orthodox social service agencies — touted as its guide for dealing with child sexual abuse — makes no mention of abuse as a crime to be reported to police. Critics say the video raises questions about Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, which is heavily…
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A Cookbook Craze Becomes a Rare Collection
Looking for a Jewish cookbook with a recipe for lobster canapés? Then Roberta Saltzman is your woman. Or how about the Sinai Temple Sisterhood’s old cookbook from Marion, Ind., with its offering of venison with sour cream? Or stuffed bangus, a (kosher) fish from the Philippines used for a Filipino variation on gefilte fish and…
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Shalit Family Endures ‘Continuous Nightmare’
Asked how he and his wife managed to cope as they approach the three-year anniversary of their son’s kidnapping by Hamas, Noam Shalit was characteristically blunt. “We don’t,” he said, his arms tightly crossed and his expression stony. “You cannot get used to this situation. It’s a continuous nightmare.” Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, now 22,…
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Orthodox, and Sticking With the Union
Recent controversies about labor issues in the Jewish community have often become battles between non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews. At the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, this paradigm seems to hold, with rabbis from more liberal denominations protesting the Orthodox Jewish owners of the hotel. But in Chicago, the standard mold is broken by Rabbi Asher…
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Terror Case Stirs Debate On Informants at Mosques: Essential Or Intrusive?
Four men suspected of terrorist activities. Four men arrested, caught in the very act. On the surface, it seemed like a seamless maneuver, a textbook exercise in counterterrorism that nabbed four Newburghß, N.Y. men suspected of plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and shoot down military planes. But…
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New Converso Rabbi Hopes To Help Others Follow His Jewish Path
Of all the rabbis ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary on May 21, few have journeys to the rabbinate quite as unlikely as Juan Mejia. Raised as a Catholic in Colombia and educated at Christian schools, Mejia was on his way to becoming a monk when he discovered as a teenager that his family had…
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