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Scholar Pulls Book Revisiting Blood Libel
After unleashing a torrent of criticism both in his native Italy and around the globe, an Israeli professor has ordered his publisher to halt distribution of a new book that suggests a possible historical basis for the centuries-old charge that Jews murdered Christians and used their blood for ritual purposes. Ariel Toaff, a professor of…
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As Capitals Cautiously Greet Palestinian Deal, Israel’s Allies in D.C. Push for Pressuring Hamas
Washington – Even as American and Israeli officials reserve judgment on the new Palestinian unity deal, some of Jerusalem’s allies in Washington are opposing the Fatah-Hamas coalition government and pressing for the West to isolate it. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to visit the region next week for a three-way summit Monday with Israeli…
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Singing to Joschka
THE WEST IS A’CHANGING: A NEW EUROPE — NEW PERCEPTIONS “The West exists today, but it ain’t what it used to be,” said Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at Washington, D.C.’s Council on Foreign Relations. Kupchan, who is also director of European studies and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, was a panelist at…
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Pluralist Body Blames Rabbis for Reopening ‘Who Is a Jew?’ Crisis
Jerusalem – Israel’s ongoing clash over conversion to Judaism, the so-called “Who is a Jew?” debate, flared into crisis again last month when a state-funded religious academy, created to ease the would-be convert’s path, declared that it was freezing referrals of candidates to state-run rabbinical courts for conversion until the chief rabbinate appoints new and…
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Aggressive Tactics Of Shoah Deniers Eyed After Attack on Wiesel
The recent assault on one of the world’s most recognizable survivors of Nazi death camps, Elie Wiesel, has several Jewish communal leaders warning that Holocaust deniers are resorting to increasingly aggressive tactics. In the attack, which occurred February 1 but was not picked up by the media for several days, the author and Nobel Peace…
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Iranian Scientist’s Death Stirs Talk of an Atomic ‘Whodunit’
The escalating confrontation between Iran and the West has produced an atomic “whodunit,” with fingers pointing across the Middle East. Last month, Iran reported the death of Ardeshir Hassanpour, 44, one of the country’s leading nuclear scientists. The news fueled a wave of rumors and conspiracy theories in cyberspace. Radio Farda, which is funded by…
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Israeli Rightist Warns That Bush’s Iraq Policy Could Hurt Effort To Combat Iran
Efraim “Effi” Eitam, a leader of Israel’s right-wing Orthodox Zionist camp, is criticizing President Bush’s Iraq policy, saying it could end up undermining efforts to confront Iran. Eitam, who sits on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and is the leader of the Renewed National Religious Zionist party, spent three days last week in…
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Report: E.U. Assumes Tehran Will Acquire Nuclear Capability
The European Union has reportedly concluded that Iran cannot be prevented from attaining nuclear weapons capability. “At some stage we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons program,” Monday’s Financial Times newspaper quoted an internal E.U. document as saying. “The Iranians have pursued their…
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Jerusalem Dig Fuels Arab Anxieties Over Al-Aqsa Mosque
Viewed logically, the scene didn’t look a whole lot like an attempt to undermine Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple: At the bottom of a small trapezoidal pit, a single Palestinian laborer wearing a blue hard hat carefully scraped dark soil into a bucket and handed it up to another man standing on a…
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Florence Melton, Founder of Adult Mini-Schools
Florence Melton, a pioneer in Jewish education, died February 8 in Florida at age 95. She will be forever immortalized in the schools of adult Jewish education around the world that bear her name. Born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrant parents, Melton never graduated from high school; however, she described herself as having been born…
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Brandeis Seen Avoiding Controversial Speakers
In the wake of former president Jimmy Carter’s high-profile visit to Brandeis University, the school is being accused of blocking controversial speakers, both pro- and anti-Israel, from making future speeches on campus. Late last month, Brandeis administrators denied a request by student groups to bring Norman Finkelstein, a left-wing political theory professor well known for…
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