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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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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Jack Abramoff, an ally of several prominent Republicans, and Steve Rosen, a driving force behind the pro-Israel lobby, were two of the most influential Jewish lobbyists in Washington before legal scandals effectively ended their careers and sent them scrambling to stay out of prison. Their cases are very different: Abramoff has pleaded guilty to fraud,…
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WJC Pushes Reform Efforts
The World Jewish Congress, beset by critics and currently under New York State investigation over its finances, made a big push toward reforming itself this week — but the effort stumbled on its first steps out of the gates. The WJC’s steering committee approved a series of organizational reforms at a January 19 meeting. Among…
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Interest in Zionist Parley Slides in U.S.
The world’s only global Jewish elections are approaching fast, but from the early tallies it appears that the word has not spread far. Voter registration for the World Zionist Congress — open to any Jew over 18 — closes February 15 in America. Thus far, fewer than 70,000 Americans have registered, down from 120,000 registrants…
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Archive Struggles With Money, Mission
Five years after its creation, a consortium intended to be America’s premier Jewish archive is struggling to maintain its footing as some member institutions battle financial difficulties — some of which are seen as partly related to their membership in the consortium. The consortium, the New York-based Center for Jewish History, unites five historical societies…
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