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State Department Weighs Plan for Palestinian State
The Bush administration is considering a plan to declare an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders by the end of 2007. The idea has been “kicked around” in the State Department for several weeks, according to sources. It could be one element of a new American Middle East peace plan, the sources added, if President…
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U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Against Israeli General
Washington — The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dealt a blow last week to ongoing attempts to sue Israeli officials in America over alleged war crimes. In a December 14 decision, Judge Paul Friedman ordered the dismissal of the civil lawsuit against former Israeli army chief of staff, Moshe Ya’alon. Friedman argued…
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Knesset Mulls Ban on Proselytizing
For 15 years Rabbi Shalom Butman has been standing next to a stand on the Nahalat Binyamin boardwalk in central Tel Aviv calling on male passers-by to put on tefillin. The 72-year-old Chabad activist never paid attention to whether they were minors or not, but now he might have to — or find himself in…
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Home for the Holidays
With the endless violence in the Middle East, it would be easy to say that my girlfriend, Shereen, and I — she is Muslim; I am Jewish — represent the potential for world peace. But of course, like the world, our story is a little more complicated than that. Shereen’s father, Ahmed, is from the…
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What’s a Jew To Do on Christmas?
Pennsylvania Family Festivities Don’t bother with the Chinese takeout this year. Instead, round up the whole family and head to Being Jewish at Christmas, a celebration presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History. This year’s party includes performances by ShirLaLa (Shira Kline), who blends music, dance, art and stories for kids; magician and…
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Prophet and Loss Statement
“…Pharaoh dreamed… And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled.” (Genesis 41:1-80) A small consulting room. The Nile is visible through the window. A gentleman in white pleated skirt, khepresh headdress with cobra, and lapis collar lies on the couch as he recounts a dream. He punctuates the conversation with…
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Mikey Weinstein Rips Rush Limbaugh
Church-state activist Mikey Weinstein– a U.S. Air Force Academy alumnus who has been spearheading the campaign against Christian proselytizing in the military – is not afraid to take on Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh mocked Weinstein on his show earlier this month, and today, Weinstein issued this open letter in response: An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh…
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Judith Regan: If She Did It
The New York Times has a story today quoting two unnamed “top executives at HarperCollins” who say that editor Judith Regan was “investigated and reprimanded three years ago for making an antisemitic remark at work.” According to the Times, the executives and someone else involved in the incident said that an editor complained that Regan…
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council to Prager: Your Words Were Intolerant, But You Get To Stay
After avoiding the issue for weeks, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council has issued a response to critics who say that conservative pundit Dennis Prager should be booted off the panel. Prager has been in hot water since late November, when he published an online column arguing that a Muslim congressman should not take his oath…
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ADL Rejects Carter’s Overture to the Jewish Community
The controversy over Jimmy Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” continues at a rolling boil. Today, the Anti-Defamation League issued a biting open letter that rejected the former president’s recent attempt to make peace with American Jews. Your efforts “to minimize the impact of your charge that American Jews control US Middle East policy are…
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An Editor of Many Sins, But… ‘AntiSemite’?
Last week, Judith Regan, the seemingly unassailable dragon lady of book publishing, was finally brought down. But after weathering more than a decade of hostility from nearly every corner of the industry — from accusations of questionable taste to serious charges of harassment and abuse — the editor was dethroned by one allegation that had…
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