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Newsdesk May 26, 2006
Hamas Floats Cease-fire Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh told Ha’aretz Monday that the Hamas-led government is prepared to agree to an extended cease-fire if Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 borders. “If Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, peace will prevail and we will implement a [cease-fire] for many years,” Haniyeh said during an interview in…
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Israeli Unilateralism Won’t Work If Olmert Has To Go It Alone
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s maiden voyage to the White House seems to have gone as well as could be expected. After aides on both sides tried to plunge expectations lower than the Dead Sea before the summit, President Bush termed Olmert’s unilateral option to evacuate the majority of West Bank settlements a “bold” concept that…
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College Chief Hit Over Anti-Israel Events
In the wake of recent recommendations by a federal civil rights commission that university administrators should denounce antisemitic hate speech on campuses, the chancellor of a California state campus is facing harsh criticism for failing to condemn a week of “anti-Zionist” activities at the University of California, Irvine. Last week’s “Holocaust in the Holy Land”…
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Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks
WASHINGTON — Despite receiving warm embraces in Congress and in the White House this week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned home with mounting opposition and a lack of clear American support for his plan to have Israel determine its borders unilaterally. President Bush effusively praised Olmert during a White House meeting Tuesday, and Olmert was…
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National Guardsman Refuses Deployment To Patrol Border
While the Senate expressed its approval Monday of a Bush administration plan to deploy the Natinoal Guard along the American-Mexican border, a Jewish member of the Pennsylvania force is publicly refusing to accept such an order. Brian Kresge, a seven-year veteran of the armed forces, first articulated his position on his personal blog last week….
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In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher ‘Jungle’ Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay
POSTVILLE, Iowa — The animals slaughtered here at the nation’s largest kosher meat packing plant have been the object of nationwide sympathy since an animal rights group released videos from the kill floor in December 2004. But a tour of the mobile homes and cramped apartments just outside town, where AgriProcessors’ immigrant workers live, quickly…
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Illogical ‘Convergence’
Ehud Olmert has come to Washington to talk about his convergence plan. By now, we all know what that means. But why, oh why, does it mean that? To converge, according to my dictionary, is “to tend toward or approach an intersecting point,” or “to come together from different directions.” What does this have to…
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False Report Triggers Rush Of Iranian-Nazi Comparisons
It was not exactly up there with the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the effort to discredit the Iranian regime took an embarrassing turn this week with a false media report claiming that Tehran had passed a law requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear special badges. The report…
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Fast Forward; A Shared Vision
When scholar Arnold Eisen and painter Jill Nathanson decided to collaborate on a project, they began with a deceptively simple question: Does revelation have a visual component? Yes, the divine essence was revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai, but what, exactly, did the prophet see? The fruit of the pair’s yearlong collaboration is “Seeing Sinai,”…
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Liberals Defend Gay Marriage As Religious Right
With the Senate slated to vote in three weeks on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, an interfaith coalition of liberal clergy is arguing that the measure would violate their religious liberty. The coalition, billed as Clergy for Fairness, opposes the Marriage Protection Amendment, which would constitutionally define marriage as a union between a man…
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Putting Zorba in His Place
Fran Weissler, producer of “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Gypsy” and “Chicago,” received the Spirit of Achievement Award on May 2 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University National Women’s Division-New York Chapter luncheon, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. She recalled: “In 1983, Barry [Weissler, her husband] and I produced…
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