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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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Israelis Launch Shoah Cartoon Contest
After hearing that the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri was promoting a competition for cartoons about the Holocaust, two Israeli artists, illustrator Amitai Sandy and actor Eyal Zusman, decided to launch an antisemitic cartoon contest of their own — open only to Jews. “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew-hating cartoons…
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Holocaust Denier Gets Jail Sentence in Austria
Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt was once sued by David Irving, but that doesn’t mean she supports the jail sentence given to the Holocaust denier in Austria this week. On Tuesday, a day after an Austrian court sentenced Irving to three years in prison for statements he made in 1989, Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish…
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Jewish, Catholic Leaders Plan Muslim Dialogue
Seeking to build on the success of their own longstanding dialogue, Jewish and Catholic leaders have held several discussions in recent weeks about launching more intensive interfaith talks with Muslims. “Before it was considered like something nice to do,” said Father Patrick Dubois, the French bishops’ liaison to the Jewish community in France. “Now it’s…
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Turkish Film Pulled by German Theaters
BERLIN — In Europe’s latest entanglement over free speech, German officials and Jewish leaders are calling for a ban on a Turkish action film that demonizes Americans and Jews. On Wednesday, Cinemaxx, Germany’s largest theater chain, was the first movie house to respond, announcing that it would strike the film from its program immediately. Following…
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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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