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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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A Trio of Farewells
I first met Coretta Scott King — who died January 30 at 78 — in 1995 at a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration hosted by the World Jewish Congress. The event, which took place at the Seagram Building, celebrated the proclamation by Jewish communities in 80 countries that Jews worldwide will remember King’s legacy. In…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff may have played a key role in setting up a 2002 meeting between President Bush and an Asian leader known for his anti-Jewish speeches, according to a recent report in the Los Angeles Times. The Times reported last week that the Malaysian government paid Abramoff $1.2 million for work in…
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Bernie Weisberg, Labor Zionist
Bernie Weisberg, former national director of Young Judea and the Labor Zionist Alliance, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Born in Maine, Weisberg attended Yeshiva University as an undergraduate and considered becoming a rabbi. However, when the school newspaper refused to publish an editorial he had written that supported the establishment of a…
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Ethiopian Immigrants to Israel Left Waiting in Limbo
More than a year after promising to bring 600 Ethiopians to Israel each month, the Israeli government has taken few concrete steps toward fulfilling the pledge, leaving thousands of immigrants in unhappy limbo and in squalid conditions. At issue is the fate of the Falash Mura, Ethiopians who are said to have Jewish ancestors who…
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Minor Change Marks Major Shift in Vote
JERUSALEM — The change in the election law looked minor, barely more significant than the flapping of a butterfly’s wings. Yet the decision to raise the percentage of the national vote that a party needs to enter the Knesset is already reshaping Israel’s political map. It could eliminate parties, cut the number of Arab Knesset…
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Newsdesk February 24, 2006
Religion Ruling Cheered Jewish organizations welcomed a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a small religious sect’s right to use an illegal hallucinogenic. The União do Vegetal argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 exempted the group from bans on the ritual use of hoasca, a tea containing diemethyltryptamine. The court decision Tuesday,…
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Reform Leaders Back Off Resolution on Iraq
WASHINGTON — Despite previous vows to press the Bush administration to set an exit strategy from Iraq, leaders of the Reform synagogue movement have decided not to push for a resolution on the issue at the Jewish community’s major policy conference. Movement leaders promised to mobilize the American Jewish community on the issue after delegates…
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Iran Proposal for Shoah Probe Rebuffed by Europeans
With the International Atomic Energy Agency set to hold another crucial meeting on Iran, Tehran proposed to send its own inspectors to investigate the veracity of the Auschwitz death camp. At the meeting, scheduled for March 6, the nuclear watchdog agency is expected to decide whether to refer Iran’s nuclear program to the United Nations…
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