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Berlin Retailers’ Heirs To Get Restitution
In one of the largest Holocaust restitution cases in German history, the heirs of the Wertheim family, one of prewar Germany’s largest retailers, stand to receive more than $100 million in property looted by the Nazis. The development follows a decision by the current owner, retail conglomerate KarstadtQuelle AG, to drop its claims to three…
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Officials Strategize Over Religious Right
At a meeting called to strategize about the political and cultural challenges posed by Christian conservative activists, Jewish communal officials disagreed about the extent of the problem. They left with no concrete plans or strategy. The meeting was convened by the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, who warned in a major policy…
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Divestment Declaration
The Democratic National Committee unanimously adopted a resolution at its national meeting in Phoenix on December 3 condemning divestment from Israel. Stating that “efforts to isolate Israel through boycotts or actions that include the possibility of divestment are counterproductive to the search for peace,” the resolution declares the DNC’s “opposition to efforts to boycott, divest…
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Spitzer’s Office: We Found ‘Significant’ Problems At Young Israel
The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was riven by an investigation of an Orthodox synagogue organization, but the one thing all members of the attorney general’s office agree on is that the office found “significant” problems at the synagogue organization that have not previously been disclosed publicly. Spitzer’s office began looking at…
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U.N. Official Slammed for Criticism of Israel
A key player in Swiss Holocaust restitution battles is being criticized by the American Jewish Committee, which, because of his virulent criticism of Israel and the United States, is urging the United Nations to oust him from his position as a special rapporteur on the right to food. Jean Ziegler, a left-leaning Swiss intellectual active…
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Newsdesk December 9, 2005
Arab Professor Acquitted Jurors acquitted Sami Al-Arian, a Florida professor, on eight charges that he helped lead Islamic Jihad; they deadlocked on another nine. The verdict was widely seen as a stinging rebuke of the Justice Department’s terrorism prosecution efforts. Al-Arian, formerly a computer-engineering professor at the University of South Florida, ended his five-month trial…
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Bombing Ups Ante in Upcoming Election
TEL AVIV — Another Palestinian suicide bombing has sown tragedy in Israel and raised the stakes in a national leadership race. An Islamic Jihad terrorist blew himself up Monday outside the Sharon Mall in Netanya, which has seen several such attacks as it is very close to the West Bank. At least five people were…
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Reform, Conservative Chiefs Praise Rice
WASHINGTON — In an effort to defend Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice against allegations of heavy-handedness in brokering an Israeli-Palestinian border-crossing deal, the heads of America’s two largest synagogue movements are calling on members of the House of Representatives to sign a letter commending her efforts. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform…
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Measuring the Seismic Political Shifts in Jerusalem
The dramatic events that have shaken the Israeli political establishment in the run-up to national elections next March have been called an earthquake by many. First Amir Peretz staged an upset victory over Shimon Peres to take control of the Labor Party. Then Ariel Sharon parted ways with the far-right politicians in Likud to form…
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Proxy Attacks Seen as Lebanon Probe Heats Up
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and the Israeli government are preparing for a belligerent Syrian reaction to the findings of a United Nations report that is expected to accuse Damascus of masterminding the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Israeli officials are anticipating an escalation in attacks by the Syrian- and…
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Religion Spat In Air Force Becomes Issue In ’06 Election
In a sign that church-state separation debates could turn stormy next year, the controversy over religious coercion by evangelical Christian officers at the U.S. Air Force Academy is emerging as a 2006 campaign issue — for both sides. Nick Reid, a Republican congressional challenger in Wisconsin, is criticizing 36-year Democratic incumbent Rep. David Obey over…
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