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Probe of Settler Clash Meets Resistance
JERUSALEM — Israel’s two top security officials decided this week to appear personally before a special Knesset committee rather than permit officers to testify in an investigation of the violent clashes at the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona. The two officials, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra, said they were…
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Groups Split on Cartoons
The eruption of violent Islamic protests over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered a sharp debate between Jewish organizations over whether they should be speaking out about the crisis. The American Jewish Committee sent a delegation of its leaders to Denmark, which has come under harsh condemnation in the Muslim world for not…
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Wiesenthal Center Presses Ahead With Israel Museum Over Mounting Objections
Despite growing Muslim and Jewish objections, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is moving ahead with the construction of a museum on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. The Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based institution, is building its new Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land that was historically used by Muslims as a cemetery…
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Murder Leaves French Jews Reeling
Just as French officials and Jewish communal leaders were hailing the sharp drop in antisemitic incidents in 2005, their long-held greatest fear occurred: A young Jewish man was murdered because of his religion. The naked and mutilated body of Ilan Halimi, 23, was found last week in a Paris suburb after he spent 21 days…
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Allies Warning That Aid Cut To P.A. Could Bolster Tehran
WASHINGTON — As the White House intensifies its efforts to deny international aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, several of America’s European and Arab allies are warning that such an approach could boost Iranian influence in the territories and increase support for Hamas in the Arab world. The fear in European and Arab capitals is…
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Sisterhood Is Powerful
Josie and Maxine have something I never did: the experience of both having and being a sister. And it’s so intense, so all consuming, so loving and so teeth gritting, I’m not at all surprised that the feminist movement spawned the phrase “Sisterhood is powerful.” I adore and admire my brother, Andy. But growing up,…
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Secret FBI Files Reveal Hoover’s Obsession With Militant Rabbi
The FBI closely monitored the militant Jewish Defense League and its fiery leader Rabbi Meir Kahane out of concern that the group’s protests and violent action could hurt fragile diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, according to government documents obtained by the Forward. The documents, many of them labeled “confidential” and partly redacted, reveal a…
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Erecting Foundations For Those With Special Needs
Esther Greenspan has survived a motor disability that interfered with her ability to nurse, 10 broken bones in her first 10 years of life, asthma attacks, scoliosis that required surgical treatment and illnesses that her body has trouble shaking off because her immune system is weak. She’s now 19. In the winter of 2005, her…
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In Search of Religious Rationality, Dalai Lama Visits … the Mideast
JERUSALEM –– The Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and exiled leader of the Tibetan people, paid his fourth visit to Israel last week. The self-styled “simple Buddhist monk” sold out speaking engagements, sparked a small controversy within the Israeli government and, just as a Hamas-led parliament was about to be sworn in, met with…
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LETTER TO OPRAH
SELMA KATZ c/o Larry and Sheryl Katz 17-82.5 Parsons Boulevard Flushing, NY 11432 Oprah Winfrey Harpo Productions One South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 Facsimile 312.987.5637 Dear Opie, As I meditate on my screensaver, which is, of course, you, I want to thank you for being my only friend, if not best friend. Honestly, my…
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Activist Ejected
A Jewish Defense League activist filed a police complaint against Georgetown University after campus police ejected him February 18 from a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference. Campus security threw Bill Maniaci of Reno, Nev., and Matthew Finberg of Boulder, Colo., out of the event, which was aimed at promoting divestment from Israel. Maniaci said two campus…
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