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Newsdesk July 29, 2005
Group Launches African Effort In the latest sign of growing Jewish interest in African issues, the American Jewish Congress last week launched a consultative committee on Africa-Jewish Relations at the United Nations and issued a statement urging the international community to take urgent action to stave off mass starvation in Niger. The new initiative, which…
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Poland Gives Up Campaign To Extradite Israeli Citizen
Polish authorities appear to have given up their efforts to extradite an Israeli citizen accused of committing crimes “against the Polish nation.” Israel’s ambassador to Poland, David Peleg, told the Forward that the Polish Ministry of Justice has agreed to drop its efforts to extradite Solomon Morel, a Polish Jew living in Israel, who allegedly…
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Human Rights Watch To Increase Focus on Terrorism
Human Rights Watch announced that it is creating a new senior position to handle terrorism issues, leading one right-leaning Israeli watchdog to take credit for the move. The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor issued a statement last week giving credit for the move to its own reports, which alleged an anti-Israel bias on the part of Human…
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In a New Twist, Israeli Civil Rights Group Stands Up for Settlers
JERUSALEM — After more than three decades of defending Israel’s deprived minorities — Arab citizens, Palestinians in the territories, gays, foreign workers and the Reform and Conservative movements — the Association for Civil Rights in Israel has a new cause: the settlers and their allies. As the August 15 start date for the Gaza pullout…
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Idealistic Newcomers Reshape Desert Town
LETTER FROM SDEROT SDEROT, Israel — On August 15, Deputy Mayor Shai Ben-Yaish will report for reserve duty in Gaza, just five miles away from his desert township of 28,000. “It’s a little surreal,” he exclaimed in a recent interview at his office in the Sderot’s municipal building, during a brief cease-fire and reprieve from…
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Canadian Hospital Refuses Kidney Transplant Patient
MONTREAL — When Baruch Tegegne, a Montreal resident who played a heroic role in Israel’s rescue of his fellow Ethiopian Jews, found a kidney donor, he was hoping to have a transplant at the nearby Royal Victoria Hospital. Instead, he seems more likely to end up in court with the hospital than in one of…
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You’re in the Army Now
On the first Friday night of July, I attended Sabbath eve services at Kehillat Ra’anan, a Progressive congregation in Ra’anana, Israel. The services — a prelude to the bat mitzvah of my niece Shirah, which was to be celebrated the next day — contained a memorable and moving new ritual, one I had never witnessed…
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A Summer Symphony
An unveiling is not a thrill. It’s sad, but also drab. And it’s sort of pro forma. It happens after the Kaddish period ends but before a full year elapses. You recite a psalm. You say “El Maleh Rahamim,” the prayer about God being compassionate. (Bad form to add, “Ha!” — even if in this…
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Former Nixon Aide ‘Pardoned’ By 2 Members of ‘Jewish Cabal’
Lucky for Republican fund raiser Fred Malek — and his bid to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team — Peter Henle and Harold Goldstein are more forgiving than Malek’s old boss, Richard Nixon. Henle and Goldstein were working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1971, when Nixon became convinced that a “Jewish cabal” was…
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Fund Honors Cancer Survivors
“In the room today is my wife, Linda, alive because of the work done by [the] Israel Cancer Research Fund,” said high-profile criminal attorney Benjamin Brafman, who served as master of ceremonies at the ICRF’s June 20 Women of Action Luncheon, held in New York City at The Pierre. Honored was Luna Kaufman, who survived…
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Tying the Knot While Rolling the Dice (Correction)
A recent article on Jewish weddings in Las Vegas (“Tying the Knot While Rolling the Dice,” June 24) erroneously suggested that prostitution is legal in Las Vegas. Though legal in a number of Nevada counties, Clark, where Las Vegas is located, is not among them.
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