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PBS Station Nixes Show On Terrorism
Following last-minute cries of protest from Muslim leaders last week, a Public Broadcasting Service affiliate in Dallas canceled the premiere of a documentary on the roots of Islamic terrorism. “The Roots of War: The Road to Peace” was scheduled to air on KERA-TV on Sunday, January 29, but the premiere was postponed by the station’s…
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Hamas Unlikely To Change Its Charter
WASHINGTON — Since the Hamas victory in the Palestinian legislative elections last week, the Islamic fundamentalist group has come under international pressure to remove any calls for Israel’s destruction from its charter. The problem is that asking Hamas to remove such passages would be like demanding that Marx and Engels drop their calls for overthrowing…
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Labor Losing Ashkenazic Voters’ Support
JERUSALEM — Two months ago, after he won the Labor Party chairmanship, Amir Peretz declared enthusiastically in his victory speech that the demon of ethnic discrimination had been “taken off life support” and “buried.” But the demon, as demons are wont, has refused to die. Polls commissioned by Labor show a “drain” of traditional Ashkenazic…
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Army’s ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Sees Iran ‘Front’ in Territories
TEL AVIV — In the army, they call this a “defining strategic event.” In laymen’s terms, it’s called an earthquake. The gains of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority’s parliamentary elections compel all players in the Middle East to rethink their behavior. “It’s much worse than we estimated,” a senior Israeli security official said last week,…
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Newsdesk February 3, 2006
Coleman To Lead Prayers Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, was scheduled to lead the annual national prayer breakfast, the first time a Jew has done so. Coleman was set to lead prayers this week at the breakfast, a non-government event organized by the Fellowship Foundation, an evangelical group. Some rabbis complained of proselytizing Christian…
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Defense Chief Calls for Second Disengagement
TEL AVIV — Barely 48 hours after the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections — a victory that no Israeli intelligence agency foresaw — the government in Jerusalem had replaced its initial shock with a “wait and see” attitude. The prevailing tone was that in the end, something good might come out of…
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Welcoming the Angels
Forward reader Gilad J. Gevaryahu has written to tell me that my discussion of the Sabbath greeting “shabbat shalom” in this column two weeks ago was scooped. A many-sided correspondence regarding this greeting, Mr. Gevaryahu informs me, can be found in “Mail.Jewish” (featured on www.ottmall.com, a site devoted to halachic issues). It appears in Volume…
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Cartoons of Prophet Spark Boycott by Arabs
Denmark has become, much to its tolerant citizens’ bewilderment, the target of an international Muslim boycott, in protest of what international Muslim groups call Denmark’s “aggressive campaign waged against Islam and its prophet.” “Boycott” actually understates the case. In the past week alone, crowds of angry Muslims in several Arab countries burned the Danish flag,…
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Medicine mensch Nau vere bona tratoj So…? How Are Things?
Do you like to talk to other people? Sometimes I do; it depends how many there are. If I’m at a party, I slink toward the chips and-salsa or talk only to my wife. (Wallflowers don’t blossom; they just climb farther up the wall.) If I’m talking to a friend of mine, it can take…
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N.Y. Probe of Charity Cites Mismanagement
A long-awaited report from the New York State Attorney General’s Office outlines serious financial mismanagement at the World Jewish Congress, including hundreds of thousands dollars of improper payments and loans to its former chairman and secretary-general, Rabbi Israel Singer. The report constitutes an agreement, signed by representatives of the WJC and the Attorney General’s Office…
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Talk About a Bruising Confirmation
If you happened to find the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings somewhat contentious, you might be surprised to learn that they had nothing on the furor that, 90 years ago in January 1916, greeted President Wilson’s nomination of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the highest court in the land. The president’s selection of the Boston lawyer…
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