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Think Tank Under Fire Over Lack Of Women
A prestigious Israeli institute was scrambling this week to find female participants for a high-powered parley on the future of the Jewish people after being heavily criticized for failing to include any women. In recent days the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a Jerusalem-based policy consortium that boasts former American diplomat Dennis Ross as its…
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Museum Dinner Gets Toes a-Tappin’
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust hosted its May 15 annual Heritage Dinner
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Unintended Outcomes, or How Unilateral Becomes Bilateral
Middle East politics follows just one law — the Law of Unintended Consequences. A corollary states that the law’s power is particularly great when someone seeks to evade it — for instance, when a leader acts unilaterally, imposing his own will, to keep his opponent from disturbing his plans. If these axioms needed more proof,…
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In Plane Sight
On its face, the nuclear deal signed by the Bush administration and India, now heading for approval before Congress, sets a good precedent for Israel. In effect, Washington is rewarding a country that developed nuclear weapons in circumvention of the landmark nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, sanctioning its arsenal after the fact because of its responsible behavior….
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Religious Conservatives Rush To Cheer Automaker’s Troubles
For Detroit’s executives and union leaders, plummeting auto sales and stock prices are foreboding harbingers of a faltering industry. But some Christian conservative activists are hailing the bad numbers as a victory. Three months after launching a boycott against Ford Motor Co. to protest the firm’s ties to gay and lesbian advocacy groups and publications,…
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Bush’s Homeland Security Cuts Split Local and National Groups
WASHINGTON — The local Jewish community in New York is at odds with national Jewish organizations over the Bush administration’s decision to cut counter-terrorism funding to the city. Leaders of the local community argue that Jews have a special stake in maintaining New York’s high level of funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s Urban…
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Finding Kinship in Muslim Senegal
It was a moment of mutual discovery. There I was, an American rabbi in a business suit and yarmulke, standing in a tropical garden in the African nation of Senegal, shaking hands with a dozen-odd colorfully dressed imams and sheiks and wondering what they would say next. I was in Dakar, the capital, for meetings…
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Suspect Extradited to N.Y.
It started as an adolescent showdown on a Brooklyn street 17 years ago — a Halloween-night egg fight between two groups of kids — but led to twin slayings and quickly became entangled in a tale of mob ties and betrayal, authorities said. Soon, one way or the other, the saga will end when Craig…
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Olmert’s Plug Sparks Push For U.S. Energy Measure
WASHINGTON — A plug from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given new life to congressional legislation granting Israel $120 million over five years for energy research and development, Jewish organizational officials said. The breakthrough on Capitol Hill is being credited to Olmert’s May 24 speech to a joint session of Congress, during which he mentioned…
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Charity President Charged With Embezzlement
The former president of a hospital auxiliary in San Francisco has been charged with embezzling almost $166,000 from the charity, money that otherwise would have served needy patients for more than a year. Gariel D. “Gary” Freund, 59, was arrested May 24 at his home in the city’s affluent Monterey Heights section; he faces 30…
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Human Trafficking Report Slaps Israel
WASHINGTON — The State Department has put Israel on a special “watch list,” citing its “failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking” in human beings. In its annual Report on Human Trafficking, published Monday, the State Department contended that “the Government of Israel does not fully comply with the minimum standards for…
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