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Pakistan To Accept Aid From Israel
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called a top American Jewish communal leader this week to say that earthquake-torn Pakistan would accept emergency assistance from Israel. The call from Musharraf to Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress – Council for World Jewry, came Tuesday, just two days after Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told the…
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Israel Aims To Improve Its Public Image
Directors of Israel’s three most powerful ministries have agreed on a new plan to improve the country’s image abroad — by downplaying religion and avoiding any discussion of the conflict with the Palestinians. The plan was adopted during an October 2 meeting convened by the Foreign Ministry, involving its own director general and his counterparts…
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Sukkot: From Humble to Inspired
My father spent his career building houses in New York’s Levittown, Long Island, condos in Sarasota, Fla. — and sukkot for our family. They weren’t elaborate affairs — just your basic frame construction of two-by-fours covered in translucent plastic. But as a child I always was proud of our home-designed and home-built sukkah, which rested…
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The Yom Kippur Pedicure
How can it be, you might ask, that such a travesty came to pass? How is it, I mean, that a woman like me, born and bred of preening Orthodox German-Jewish stock, came one evening two years ago to usher in Yom Kippur, the Holiest of Holy Days, in the most faithless way imaginable: by…
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Out of Jail, Mob Fall Guy Pines For a Shul and Some Shellfish
When Barry Gibbs walked out of the Eastern Correctional Facility in upstate New York last week after serving more than 17 years of a life sentence for a murder that authorities now believe he didn’t commit, the 57-year-old former postal worker admitted to wanting two things. He didn’t ask for revenge against Louis Eppolito, the…
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Arabs Protest as Probe of Deaths Is Dropped
TEL AVIV — Israeli police and justice officials were fighting this week to prevent a full-scale crisis of confidence with the Israeli Arab community, after a police investigation decided not to bring any charges in the October 2000 police shootings that left 12 Israeli Arabs dead. The decision by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department,…
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Holocaust Lawyer Fights Accusation He Hired Underage Austrian Hooker
A prominent Holocaust restitution lawyer, Ed Fagan, is planning a trip to Austria to defend himself against published accusations that he hired an underage prostitute. Several Austrian publications have reported that the state prosecutor in Vienna is looking into contacts that Fagan and other individuals allegedly had with a prostitution ring that involved underage girls…
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‘Values’ of Women To Blame for Low Birthrates, Says Conservative Scholar
As the flagship seminary of Conservative Judaism searches for a new chancellor, a rumored candidate for the position is pressing ahead with his controversial policy pronouncements. In recent weeks, Jack Wertheimer, provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, has advanced a traditionalist assessment of how his movement should address intermarriage and the relatively low…
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White House Considers Syria Sanctions
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is signaling its intention to slap new sanctions on Syria, say congressional sources and Western diplomats. “There is very little doubt in anyone’s mind that more sanctions will soon be imposed,” said a congressional aide who was recently briefed by administration officials. Frustrated by Syria’s failure to block militants from…
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Plea May Affect Aipac Lobbyists’ Cases
WASHINGTON — Jewish organizations are worried that a reported plea bargain involving a former Pentagon official will complicate two former pro-Israel lobbyists’ efforts to defend themselves against charges that they passed on secret information to Israel. The former Pentagon official, Lawrence Franklin, reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing highly classified information to unauthorized…
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Jewish Representative Rises In House’s Republican Ranks
With the indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, is climbing up the GOP leadership ladder. Cantor — who is chief deputy majority whip, the fourth-ranking House leadership post — is gaining added responsibilities as Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, the third-ranking…
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