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As Hamas-Fatah Struggle Gains Steam, P.A. Loses Its D.C. Voice
Washington – Last week, when a congressional committee rejected a bid to provide $10 million for a Palestinian children’s program, something unusual happened: nothing. In the past, such bills have been urged along by Palestinian lobbyists in Washington. But this time around, congressional staffers said that there was no effort on behalf of the Palestinians…
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Gaza Dispatches: Violence Down, But Crises Loom
The Media War The street fighting in Gaza abated last week, but Hamas and Fatah are still battling it out online and over the airwaves for the hearts and minds of Palestinians. “There are two stories: the Fatah story and the Hamas story,” said Nasser Laham, the frazzled chief editor of the independent Ma’an Network…
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‘Nazi’ Comments Spur Debate in El Paso
What do Nazi Germany, urban redevelopment and the specter of eminent domain in America’s largest border city have to do with one another? On the surface, it would seem, not very much. But in El Paso, Texas, where a political dispute over a proposed downtown redevelopment plan has spilled over into the ranks of the…
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Landlord Trouble
One of the first Jewish institutions to be established in post-Soviet Russia may have to shut its doors at the end of this year, due to a struggle with one of America’s largest Jewish charities. The Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg received a letter last month from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known…
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Museum Draws Ire
Dozens of Holocaust survivors gathered Monday for a town hall meeting in Florida to voice their anger over the way a set of Holocaust archives is being handled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The archives in question are coming from Bad Arolsen, Germany, and contain millions of documents that describe Nazi atrocities during…
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La Paix? Nyet.
In the run-up to next week’s election for the European Jewish Congress, the race for president has turned into a grudge match between a Frenchman and a Russian, both freshly minted millionaires. On one side is the incumbent, Pierre Besnainou, a Tunisian-born Internet tycoon who lives in Paris. His challenger is Moshe Kantor, a Russian…
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Clinton Attends Gala
Bill Clinton’s recent appearance at an American Jewish World Service gala fundraiser clocked in as the second Jewish-related event the former president has attended in a month. Before the June 13 event, where he accepted an award for his global humanitarian efforts, Clinton headlined a May fundraising dinner for American Friends of the Hebrew University….
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Koch on Bloomberg: ‘He’d Be a Fine President’
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg casts his hat into the 2008 presidential race, he has the blessing of a predecessor at New York’s City Hall, Ed Koch. Speaking to the Forward by telephone this morning, the former New York City mayor said he would welcome a run by Bloomberg. “Oh yes, I think he’d be a…
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Koch on Bloomberg: ‘He’d Be a Fine President’
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg casts his hat into the 2008 presidential race, he has the blessing of a predecessor at New York’s City Hall, Ed Koch. Speaking to the Forward by telephone this morning, the former New York City mayor said he would welcome a run by Bloomberg. “Oh yes, I think he’d be a…
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Giuliani Grows Jewish Grassroots; McCain Sticks to Grasstops
While the race for Jewish donors continues, the Giuliani campaign seems also to be growing an organic network of grassroots Jewish supporters, while McCain and Co. is sticking to the financial machers. In New York, Jewish young professionals are mobilizing for a Rudy Giuliani event next Monday night. Just over the past several weeks, a…
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Biblical Bio: Life of Steinberg
The Book of David David Steinberg Simon & Schuster, 191 pages, $23.00. Getting bumped from “The Tonight Show” sucks — but getting bumped three nights in a row feels like wandering in the desert for 40 years. At least that’s how David Steinberg describes it in his new quasi-memoir, “The Book of David.” “David reflected…
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