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Model Community In Russia Revolts Against Aid Agency
The tsarist capital of St. Petersburg has long been a model for the revival of Jewish life in Russia, but in recent weeks a growing number of Jewish leaders there have come forward to say that the community is being torn apart by the very American Jewish organization that helped build it up. The organization…
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Dems Warn Olmert About Playing Politics
Washington – Israeli officials and Democratic lawmakers are working to mend fences after the fallout between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi following Pelosi’s visit to Damascus. But Democrats are still angry about what they see as Olmert’s desperate attempts to align himself with President Bush even if it means wading into…
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Syrian Dissidents See Prospects Killed by Bloodbath in Iraq
Damascus — When Syrians head to the polls this week to elect a new parliament, Iraq will be on their minds — but not in the way that the Bush administration envisioned four years ago, when it held high hopes that toppling Saddam Hussein would set off a democratic domino effect that would unseat the…
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Rumors Abound as Israel Levels Secret Charges Against Arab Pol
Jerusalem – One of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial lawmakers is under investigation in a case that has caused a national uproar and may have driven him from the country — even as the nature of the charges against him remain a state secret. What is publicly known is that Azmi Bishara, the firebrand leader…
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Bush Babes Bring On the Bling
BUSH BEAUTIES BACK STRANG CANCER PREVENTION CENTER “Cancer is a wildfire… help stop it before it starts,” urged Dr. Richard Rivlin, director of the Ann Fisher Nutrition Center of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, at the center’s March 12 Garden of Hope Gala. Rivlin emphasized, “We are what we eat, and what we don’t eat.”…
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Judge: Evidence Will Be Public in Aipac Trial
Washington – The federal judge in the case of two pro-Israel advocates accused of passing classified documents has rejected the government’s efforts to keep much of the evidence out of the public view. Judge T.S. Ellis III of the U.S District Court in Alexandria, Va., ruled Monday that the government may not use special procedures…
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Blog Describes Bishara Charges
Although Israel-based journalists are barred from publishing the particulars of the Azmi Bishara case, some details have been reported in Arab media outlets and in the blogosphere. One of the most explicit and seemingly reliable accounts appeared in the Tikun Olam Web site of Seattle blogger Richard Silverstein, who is a frequent critic of Israeli…
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Conference of Presidents Pick Hailed By Groups Critical of Hoenlein’s Role
Internal critics of the umbrella organization widely viewed as the American Jewish community’s consensus voice on Middle East affairs are lauding the nominee to head the group. June Walker, national president of the women’s Zionist organization Hadassah, was tapped Monday to chair the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Walker, a veteran volunteer…
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Matthew Bronfman Resigns From Bank Board
Matthew Bronfman, a candidate for the presidency of the scandal-plagued World Jewish Congress, resigned last week from the board of Israel Discount Bank’s New York branch. Bronfman’s April 13 resignation came after the bank commissioned a report to look at allegations of potential conflicts of interest in his work at the bank. While the report…
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Yiddish Actor David Rogow Dies at 92
Yiddish actor David Rogow died April 17 in New York. He was 92. Born in Vilna, Rogow started performing in theatrical productions while attending the Real Gymnasium. He then went on to act in the troupe Davke and in the Yiddish marionette group Maidam. Rogow survived World War II in Russia; soon after the war,…
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McCain Singing Bomb, Bomb Iran
MoveOn.org has presidential contender John McCain in its sights, for a joke he made on Wednesday about bombing Iran, while stumping in South Carolina. (Right after that remark, McCain talked about the importance of defending Israel.) Here’s the link to the video on YouTube.
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