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Paul M. Steinberg, HUC-JIR Official
Paul M. Steinberg, Eleanor Sinsheimer distinguished service professor of Jewish religious education and human relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, died July 8 in New York after battling cancer for several years. He was 79. Steinberg served as teacher, mentor, dean and vice president at the College-Institute schools in New York and Jerusalem,…
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Effort Eyed To Combat Divestment
In an effort to combat the growing mainline Protestant efforts to divest from Israel, a leading Jewish civil-rights organization is weighing the creation of a new interfaith coalition uniting liberal and conservative Christians. A key piece of the plan, being considered by the American Jewish Congress, would be the recruitment of liberal Protestants to protest…
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Critics Charge JTS Board With Power Play in Search
Board members of the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism have executed what critics are describing as a power play aimed at limiting the say of the faculty and other arms of the movement in selecting a new leader. Movement insiders say the maneuvering could tilt the selection in a more traditionalist direction. Last month, the…
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Jewish Groups Backing Away From Talk of Opposing Court Pick
WASHINGTON — As rumors escalate of additional Supreme Court retirements, officials at Jewish organizations say they think it is increasingly unlikely that they will directly oppose or endorse any of the President Bush’s nominees. Bush is expected soon to nominate a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In recent days, Washington has been abuzz…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Air Force Ad: In its latest print campaign, the National Jewish Democratic Council is buying a full-page ad in two Jewish newspapers in order to highlight what it calls “congressional inaction” on the allegations of proselytizing and religious coercion at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The ad, set to run in…
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As Pullout Approaches, Sharon Orders Closure in Gaza
TEL AVIV — With barely a month left before the official beginning of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza — the August 15 date isn’t likely to change, despite last-ditch efforts by right-wingers inside and outside Ariel Sharon’s government — the fate of the disengagement plan is now more in the hands of the people in the…
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Speech Reflects Chabad Split
A prominent Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi delivered a speech in Brooklyn this week lambasting his movement’s leadership for not aggressively fighting Israel’s plan to dismantle settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank. “When I read that the Lubavitch took a position that we’re not to get involved, it went against everything I know,” said Rabbi Avraham…
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The Gulf Between Politics of Faith And Western-style Democracy
Whenever I hear the word democracy, I shiver. Since the term became a rallying cry in Western foreign policy, it has come to mean a set of priorities and values that are essentially American and European. As such, for many of us here in the Middle East, democracy has become dated as a philosophy that…
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London’s Jews Stay Alert But Defiant After Bombings
LONDON — With most of the United Kingdom’s 290,000 Jews living in London, it was with a sense of inevitability that the community awaited details of possible Jewish casualties, as missing commuters were listed and fatality totals were announced. Sure enough, the first confirmed death after the bombings was that of Susan Levy, 53, a…
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Holocaust Revisionists Take On Mideast Policy
The leading Holocaust revisionist group in America is set to go on the offensive this month with a meeting in New York to discuss the “Jewish-Zionist role in fomenting war in the Middle East” and a protest in Los Angeles at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Institute for Historical Review argues that 6 million Jews…
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Colorado Federation Sees Donations Rise
The annual fundraising campaigns at local Jewish charitable federations have not been a growth industry in recent years, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the situation in Denver. Since a new CEO arrived at the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado in 2002, the annual campaign has grown 51%. When the 2005 annual campaign…
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