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GOP Slams Effort To Study WWII Internment Camps in U.S.
A plan to study the treatment of Europeans interned by the United States government during World War II is languishing in the Senate following unexpectedly strong opposition from GOP lawmakers. A narrow majority of Republican senators, led by Jeff Sessions of Alabama, rejected a proposal to form a congressional commission examining the wartime experiences of…
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WJC Looks to Cosmetics Heir for Image Makeover
Bigwigs from six continents gathered in New York last weekend to elect Ronald Lauder the new president of the World Jewish Congress. The vote took place Sunday in midtown Manhattan, just above the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and brought together an unusual collection of top representatives from most of the largest Jewish communities in the…
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Messianic Jews Find Fertile Ground in the Bible Belt
Oxford, N.C. — Ellen and Tim Pitts say they aren’t the kind of Jews who go around preaching about Jesus Christ. Although they are self-described “messianic Jews” — the term of art preferred by those who accept Christian theology and assert a Jewish identity — the couple, who live with their three young children in…
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Burg’s Comments in Interview Make Waves
A stalwart of Zionism caused an ideological earthquake last week when he stated that defining the State of Israel as Jewish is the key to its end. In an interview published in Ha’aretz, Avraham Burg, a former head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a former Knesset speaker, argued that Israeli society has elements…
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Israel Drawn Into Debate on Missile Defense
Washington — Israel is being drawn by the United States into Washington’s dispute with Russia over the deployment of missile-defense systems in Europe. In attempts to make the case for placing missile interceptors and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, American officials have argued that the initiative would improve Israel’s security and help…
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Arab Vote Decisive in Labor Election
Jerusalem – In the struggle for the leadership of Israel’s oldest political party, it was the non-Zionists and the pioneers who determined the outcome. The Arab and kibbutz vote in the Labor Party primary handed the chairmanship to Ehud Barak, who defeated Ami Ayalon Tuesday, 51.3% to 47.7%. Barak, who led Labor from 1996 until…
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Controversial Professor Loses Battle for Tenure
A controversial Jewish professor who claims that Israel and Jewish organizations have exploited the Holocaust for political and financial gain was denied tenure at DePaul University following a long-simmering feud that played out in the pages of the national media. Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science who makes regular appearances on American campuses…
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Rally Against Occupation Draws Sparse Crowd in D.C.
Organizers of this past weekend’s “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation” rally in Washington pulled out all the stops. They secured the backing of the nation’s largest grass-roots anti-war coalition, United for Peace & Justice, which has brought hundreds of thousands into the streets to protest the Iraq War. They reserved prime real estate…
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British Pol Reaches Out on Climate Change
In a further indication of its willingness to challenge the Bush administration on its home turf, the British government of Tony Blair is pushing its advocacy to combat global warming by reaching out to state and local authorities, the business community and even religious groups in America. While Blair has stuck with the White House…
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Vitriol Proliferates on Jewish Blogs
When Richard Silverstein, a liberal Jewish blogger, claimed credit for shutting down an extremist right-wing Web site that listed the names of thousands of left-wing Jewish activists, the cyber-retribution was swift and harsh. Days after his blog posting went up in late March, Silverstein received an e-mail directing him to a defamatory Web site purporting…
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Singer Ends Career at Claims Conference
In a move that will likely end one of the most high-powered careers in the Jewish communal world, Rabbi Israel Singer announced this week that he would step down from his post at the top of the world’s leading Holocaust restitution body, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The Claims Conference announced Tuesday…
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