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Free Marwan Barghouti To Counter Power of Hamas
During the mid-1990s, Marwan Barghouti and his close friend Qaddoura Fares initiated a number of meetings with representatives of the Israeli peace camp. They presented themselves as people committed to turning the Oslo process into a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine by May 1999, the date that had been determined in bilateral negotiations. Barghouti…
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Clinton Gives Food For Thought — But Hold the Gluten
‘I believe every Palestinian in Europe or America is either a millionaire or a college professor,” Bill Clinton told the more than 700 attendees at the November 10 State of Israel Bonds’ Real Estate and Construction Division lunch at The Pierre. The former president, who was speaking in reference to the Palestinian diaspora’s apparent tightfistedness,…
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America, Israel Bracing for Violence From Syria
DICTATORIAL DEVOTION: A woman holds up a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration last week in Damascus. Assad is facing trouble internationally as the United Nations investigates the role of his government in the assassination of a popular former Lebanese prime minister and businessman, Rafik Hariri.
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL December 2, 2005
On the 60th yahrzeit of his death, Kazriel Broydo was featured in the columns of the Forverts devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. Broydo was the embodiment of the spirit of Vilna. He assembled and performed every song in the ghetto. His compositions spread from Vilna to virtually all the other ghettos in Eastern Europe….
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Jewish Extremist’s Unlikely Pal: Left-wing Rabbi
When Earl Krugel was bludgeoned to death in a prison gym earlier this month, his widow made what would seem to many an unlikely call — to Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak. The call was unlikely because while Krugel was imprisoned for his work with a militantly right-wing Jewish organization, the Jewish Defense League, Beliak is…
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Europe Seen Cracking Down on Holocaust Revisionists
In a flurry of activity on both sides of the Atlantic, several so-called revisionists have been arrested on Holocaust denial charges in recent weeks. Three revisionists — Germar Rudolph, Ernst Zundel and Siegfried Verbeke — have been extradited to Germany. But the most visible case involves far-right British historian David Irving, who was arrested November…
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Calls To Monitor Pro-Arab Bias Rejected
WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights rejected calls from Jewish organizations last week for federal oversight of government-funded Middle Eastern studies programs at American universities. At a November 18 hearing devoted to the issue of antisemitism on college campuses, the commission heard from three representatives of the Jewish community who argued…
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U.S.-Funded Report Urges Israel To Take First Step Toward Nuclear Disarmament
WASHINGTON — A new study commissioned and partially funded by the Pentagon urges Israel to take the first step in launching a nuclear disarmament process in the Middle East, arguing that such a move is the only way to block Iran’s development of weapons of mass destruction and head off a regional arms race. The…
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Sharon Move Signals More Giant Steps
TEL AVIV – During his four-and-half years in office, Prime Minister Sharon has often been accused of avoiding the press. In interviews, Sharon has characteristically been curt and evasive. But in his first press conference after disengaging himself from the Likud, Sharon had all the time in the world. He answered every question, brimming with…
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Doctors Reject Early Diagnosis of Bird Flu
BANGKOK — An Israeli backpacker originally diagnosed as suffering from human bird flu regained consciousness Wednesday for the first time in a week. Ortal Swissa, an Israeli traveler in her 20s, had been hospitalized and listed in critical condition after coming down with a lung infection. When she was first admitted, doctors said Swissa was…
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Rabbi Urges Conversion, Sexual Limits
HOUSTON — For more than a quarter-century, the Reform movement has made it a priority to reach out to interfaith couples. Now, its leader, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, said it’s time to start doing more to encourage non-Jewish spouses to convert to Judaism. Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, issued the call to action…
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