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Bahrain To Tap Jewish Ambassador
Washington – Bahrain is expected to appoint a member of its tiny Jewish community as ambassador to the United States, the small Persian Gulf state’s top diplomatic posting. The expected nomination of Houda Ezra Nonoo would be historic in several respects: She would not only become the first Jew to represent a Muslim state, but…
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U.S. Drops Opposition to Israel-Syria Talks
Washington – As hints of peace talks have emerged recently from Israel and Syria, the Bush administration appears to have shifted away from its long-held opposition to Jerusalem engaging in talks with the Assad regime in Damascus. Earlier this month, both Israel and Syria took the unusual step of publicly confirming that they had been…
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The 1990s: The Illusion of Peace
In the history of the State of Israel, the 1990s were the time of the Palestinians. The decade began with a Palestinian intifada and ended with a second Palestinian intifada, deadlier and more vicious than the first. Between the two waves of violence, Israel was swept like a roller coaster from the heights of euphoria…
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Activists Who Exposed Meat Industry Reveal Their Own (Kosher) Identity
When AgriProcessors, America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was caught on tape conducting what a federal agency later called “acts of inhumane slaughter,” officials at the plant knew they had been infiltrated by undercover investigators. What the company didn’t know was that two of those infiltrators were a married couple who keep kosher themselves. Meet Hannah and…
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Ed Koch’s Grave Decision
NEWS ITEM: Former New York City mayor Ed Koch has purchased a burial plot in an Upper Manhattan cemetery operated by Trinity Church. He wants to remain in Manhattan forever, he asserts. The mayor thoughtfully explains He wants his bodily remains To rest within the burg he loves. Should we extend him Mazel Tovs? In…
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Wright’s Praise for Farrakhan Is ‘Ridiculous,’ Obama Says in Repudiating Pastor
Barack Obama took off the gloves in going after his longtime pastor over his appearance yesterday at the National Press Club: Here’s a short snippet: When he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest…
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U.N. Anti-Racism Conference Won’t Be in Durban This Time Around
There will be no replay of the infamous Durban conference. After months of quiet lobbying from Western governments and United Nations officials, African countries announced last week that their continent would not host the follow-up meeting of the controversial anti-racism conference that was held in South Africa in 2001. That meeting was marred by anti-Israel…
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Students Remember Holocaust
ISRAEL U.N. AMBASSADOR GILLERMAN AND HIS WIFE HOST INTIMATE LUNCHEON “I’m the man who accompanied Janice to New York,” joshed Israel’s United Nations ambassador, Dan Gillerman, addressing the guests at the Intimate Lunch he and his wife hosted March 13 at their Fifth Avenue residence. “When I took the job five years ago, I was…
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Middle East Policy Emerges as Wedge Issue in Clinton’s Pennsylvania Win
Senator Hillary Clinton captured 62% of Jewish voters in Pennsylvania on her way to defeating Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama in the Keystone State’s April 22 primary. The win represents Clinton’s strongest showing among Jewish Democrats, aside from an earlier contest in her home state of New York. While the Pennsylvania results do little to alter…
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Rabbis’ Dispute Exposes Communal Rift on Labor
A rabbinic legal opinion stipulating that Jewish employers should pay their workers a living wage is exposing fault lines in the Jewish world over attitudes toward labor issues. The opinion, which will be voted on by Conservative Judaism’s halachic policy body in late May, argues that rabbinic law obligates Jewish employers to pay their workers…
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Ailing Editor Set To Close the Book on Venerable Yiddish Journal
Los Angeles – Last October, a top Yiddish literary journal based in Los Angeles celebrated the publication of its 150th issue. Now it appears that its sesquicentennial issue may have been its last. Heshbon, the crowning jewel of L.A.’s once-vibrant Yiddish literature scene, will more than likely cease publication in the wake of the resignation…
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