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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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Synagogues Step Up Community Organizing Efforts
Three state assembly members and a lone county supervisor in Los Gatos, Calif., were no match this week for 500 Jews demanding more money for health care. “We meet tonight to ensure health care coverage for all county residents,” said Rabbi Joel Fleekop of Congregation Shir Hadash, a local congregation and host of the February…
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Women’s Groups Split Over Texas Governor’s Vaccination Plan
In a surprise move, certain pro-choice women’s organizations — including the largest Jewish one — are joining Christian conservatives in criticizing the governor of Texas for requiring sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease. Governor Rick Perry, who is generally seen as a staunch ally of the Christian right, last week…
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Marty Peretz Has Found a New Reason to Pick on George Soros
We’ve already noted Marty Peretz’s obsession with George Soros. Now the New Republic big cheese has broken new ground in Soros-bashing: blaming the billionaire financier for airline mishaps. Really, though, our main gripe with Peretz has nothing to do with Soros, and everything to do with the TNR chief’s calling our deputy Web editor “Arthur.”…
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Speaking of Florida … McCain is Also Heading South
McCain will be stumping in Vero Beach on Monday. Here’s the information in a press advisory from the campaign: VERO BEACH, FLORIDA WHO: Senator John McCain WHAT: Media Availability WHEN: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 5:10 p.m. EST Press Set Up Time: 4:50 p.m. EST WHERE: The Community Church of Vero Beach Fellowship Hall 1901…
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‘Kangaroo Congressional Hearing’
That’s the title of M.J. Rosenberg’s dispatch on the meeting Wednesday of the House’s Middle East subcommittee, which dealt with the Israeli-Paesltinian conflict and featured a great deal of criticism of the recent Hamas-Fatah unity government deal. We have a story about the hearing that should be up soon. For now, read Rosenberg’s critique.
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Cult Readopts Swastika The Raelian movement, an atheistic cult making the claim that humans were created by aliens, has reverted to its original symbol: a swastika inside a Star of David. The movement, established by former French racing-car driver Claude Vorhilon, says its swastikas are an ancient symbol of peace. The group stopped using the…
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