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Y.U. Prez ‘Outraged’ Over Israel Snub
Yeshiva University President Richard Joel is slamming the Israeli education ministry for refusing to recognize bachelor’s degrees from the school more than a year after a government vow to reverse the policy. “Last year I expressed patience. This year I’m expressing outrage,” said Joel, who voiced his objections at a crowded June 26 meeting of…
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Choreographer Sophie Maslow, 95
Sophie Maslow, a choreographer who created several works with Jewish themes, died Sunday in New York at age 95. Her 1950 work “The Village I Knew” was a set of character sketches based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, The New York Times reported. She also choreographed the annual Hanukkah festivals at New York’s Madison…
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Evelyn Dubrow, 95, Advocated for Workers’ Rights
Evelyn “Evy” Dubrow, a respected and widely known champion of workers’ rights, died June 20 at the age of 95. Dubrow rose to prominence in Washington political circles as a lobbyist for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union — a position from which she pushed for a higher minimum wage, fair trade laws, family and…
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Rebel With a Cause
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the only major international organization from which the United States is excluded. The organization rebuffed an American attempt last year to gain observer status, while granting such status to Mongolia, Pakistan, India and, perhaps most irritatingly to Washington, Iran. The alliance’s summit last year, held in the Kazakh capital of…
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Newsdesk June 30, 2006
Culture Group Taps Chief The National Foundation for Jewish Culture named a new executive director. Elise Bernhardt, a curator, producer and adviser on arts programming and development, will take over the New York-based foundation from Richard Siegel, who resigned after 27 years. Senate Passes Hamas Bill The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation that would end…
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Rabbi Boycotts President at Zionist Parley
JERUSALEM — The 35th World Zionist Congress, a quadrennial event typically characterized more by political infighting over patronage jobs than by ideological debate, was marked by an unusual drama this week: Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of America’s Union for Reform Judaism, chose the congress as the venue for a protest against Israeli President Moshe Katsav’s…
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Mexican Leftist’s Backers Run From Chavez Label
MEXICO CITY — With less than two weeks to go in Mexico’s highly polarized, too-close-to-call presidential contest, a top Jewish adviser to leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists that the contender would focus his attention on domestic policy while steering clear of contentious foreign policy matters. When López Obrador “gets to the presidency, he’s…
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Report: Pol Mishandled ‘March of the Living’ Funds
Israel’s state comptroller has opened an investigation into charges that the country’s minister of finance, Avraham Hirchson, mishandled the funding of an iconic Holocaust education project, the March of the Living, in possible violation of both nonprofit laws and campaign finance laws. The charges are contained in a bruising cover story published June 16 in…
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Immigration Fight Splits Locals in Iowa Town
POSTVILLE, Iowa — This rural town’s reservoir of neighborly good will has been drained in recent weeks by an increasingly personal debate about the immigrants lining up for work at the local slaughterhouse — the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. At a packed town council meeting June 12, seven local clergy members, including a rabbi,…
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Polls: Boost for Israel in Europe
Recent polls suggest that Islamic radicalism has achieved what Israeli public relations efforts never could: a significant boost in Western European support for Israel. According to two recent polls, the level of French and German support for Israel has increased significantly in the past few years. The annual Pew Global Attitudes survey found that French…
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Fight Erupts in D.C. Over Plight of Palestinian Christians
WASHINGTON — A battle has erupted on Capitol Hill over who should be blamed for the plight of Palestinian Christians: Israel or the Palestinian Authority. All sides agree that the Christian community in the West Bank faces existential threats and is dwindling, from 20% of the population 50 years to about 1.5% today. They bitterly…
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