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AJCongress Roiled by Wave of Job Cuts
The American Jewish Congress, once a leading voice of grass-roots liberal activism, has experienced a wave of drastic personnel cuts, downsizing of key domestic programs, regional office closings, and the departure of the organization’s president and half its board. Leaders of the 88-year-old organization portray the developments as part of a well-designed plan to create…
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Dems Turn to Center
As Democrats prepare their agenda for the next Congress, party leaders are attempting a delicate balancing act, seeking to assure party faithful that they are not planning a shift to the right, while crafting a legislative program that has a chance of becoming law — and that does not alienate newly acquired moderate voters. In…
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Democratic Senator Slams Iraq Study Group’s Report
Just days before its publication, the much-anticipated report of the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton commission on Iraq came under attack Monday from the Democrats’ top foreign-policy voice, Senator Joseph Biden, in an address to a Jewish group in New York. Biden, incoming chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the Baker-Hamilton report, parts of which…
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Neocons Leery of Baker’s Return
As official Washington waited with bated breath this week for the report of the Iraq Study Group, neoconservatives were sounding alarms that the document boded ill for Israel. That was because the leader of the ISG was none other than James Addison Baker III. By now, it’s an immutable law of American politics and foreign…
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In Egypt, a Once-venerable Community Is Now a People Let Go
At its height, the Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt totaled 80,000 individuals, men and women of diverse backgrounds and nationalities: In addition to Arab Jews, there were also Jews of British, French, Greek and Italian origin. In this fertile environment, the Eliyahu Ha-Nabi Synagogue on al-Nabi Street thrived, housing the headquarters for the Chief Rabbinate…
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Personal Voyage Leads Ambassador to U.S.
For the new Israeli ambassador to America, the Middle East peace process is about more than mere diplomacy. Sallai Meridor is the first Israeli ambassador to come from a West Bank settlement. Meridor is scheduled to present his credentials to President Bush at the White House on Friday. As Israel’s chief diplomat in Washington, he…
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Lebanese Tensions Raise Israeli Fears, but Experts Say for Naught
Tensions were running high in Beirut this week as a crowd of more than 100,000 Shi’ite protesters continued to camp out in the streets of the Lebanese capital, demanding a greater say in the country’s sectarian power-sharing system. The encampment is an outgrowth of a December 1 rally outside parliament that was organized by Hezbollah…
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Group Focuses on Education
An influential ultra-Orthodox organization is putting new muscle behind efforts to shape education policy at the state level. Agudath Israel of America, a New-York based advocacy group for ultra-Orthodox Jews, has recently created a new position, national director of government affairs. The new job is intended to create better coordination among the group’s 28 national…
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WJC Dispute Focuses on Control of Jerusalem Office
Months after emerging from a lengthy battle with one of its former leaders, the World Jewish Congress is now embroiled in a feud with its Israeli branch regarding a dispute over control of the organization’s Jerusalem office. Members of the Israeli branch say that the New York-based secretary general of the WJC, Stephen Herbits, recently…
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Pundit Ripped for Telling Rep To Keep Quran Out of Congress
A conservative pundit popular on the Jewish dinner circuit has aroused a nationwide controversy by rejecting the right of a newly elected Muslim congressman to be sworn in using a Quran. In a November 28 column published on the Web site Townhall.com, radio talkshow host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager wrote that using Islam’s sacred…
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Häagen-Dazs Creator Ruth Mattus, 90
Rose Mattus, a longtime Jewish philanthropist and one of the creators of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, died November 28 in Westwood, N.J., at the age of 90. Mattus grew up in Poland and moved to Brooklyn with her family in 1921. She married a distant cousin, Reuben, in 1936, and together they started making ice cream,…
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