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Israeli Arabs Voicing Anger After Incident at Nazareth Church
A handful of firecrackers set off by an emotionally unstable family during Mass in Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation brought thousands of angry people to the city’s streets, in an hours-long melee that left more than a score of protesters and police injured. That was evidence, as if more were needed, of the resentments of…
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Groups Mostly Mum About U.N. Council
For years, Israel and its supporters have denounced the United Nations Commission on Human Rights as a sham and an annual anti-Israel slugfest. But now they are mostly keeping quiet regarding the furious debate over efforts to replace the commission. The debate has broken out between the Bush administration on the one hand, and a…
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Democrats Raising Bush Ties To Arabs in Battle Over Ports
As President Bush faces a bipartisan furor from the deal to hand over control of operations at six American ports to a Dubai firm, Democrats are using the controversy to underscore the ties of the administration and its allies to Arab nations. In particular, Democrats are pointing to links between administration cronies and Dubai World…
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WJC Sues Whistleblower for Defamation
Following the release of a stinging government report on financial mismanagement at the World Jewish Congress, the organization struck back with a $6 million defamation lawsuit against the whistleblower behind the investigation. Now the hardball maneuver is causing a new set of headaches for the group, with its Australian affiliate threatening to quit the organization….
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U.S. Studies Iranian’s Religious Ideology
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s surprise victory in the Iranian presidential elections last year sent foreign-policy experts in Washington scrambling to decipher the little-known former Tehran mayor suddenly in charge of a country determined to master nuclear technology. The task has become all the more urgent and complex in recent months since Ahmadinejad has intensified his confrontational rhetoric,…
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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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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Abortion Antagonism: The National Jewish Democratic Council’s plan to host a reception for Pennsylvania’s Democratic senatorial candidate next week at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference is drawing criticism from a Jewish Republican. The executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Matt Brooks, says the Jewish Democrats are violating their principles by…
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Newsdesk March 3, 2006
Uzbek Death Protested Jewish officials in the former Soviet Union appealed to Uzbek authorities to investigate the death of the Central Asian country’s Jewish leader. Rabbi Avraham Yagudayev, 33, died Saturday of injuries he received two days earlier in what the authorities have described as a road accident. Yagudayev was found unconscious and severely injured…
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Giving The Melting Pot Its First Stir
Every so often a play comes along that not only speaks directly to the concerns of its generation — to its specific anxieties and aspirations — but also renders those concerns with such crystalline clarity that the play emblematizes its moment in time. For my generation, that play was “Angels in America.” For my parents’…
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Nobody’s Perfect
When it comes to our health, we can all be careless. Why do some of us keep smoking when we have relatives who died young from lung cancer and heart disease? Why do we eat like it’s going out of style when New York is chock-full of obese diabetics? Why are so many Sabbath tables…
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