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Memo on Holocaust Hero Provides Taste of Roberts’s Legal Thinking
In 1984, when Judge John G. Roberts was a young legal adviser to President Ronald Reagan, he was asked to give his view on a matter pertaining to the fate of World War II-era Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg, whose efforts saved many Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was then thought to be held captive…
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In Mailing, Falwell Urging Backers To ‘Vote Christian’
As part of a bid to revive his Reagan-era conservative powerhouse, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority leader, is urging Americans to “vote Christian” in 2008. “As national chairman of the Moral Majority Coalition, I am committed to lending my influence to help turn out at least 40 million ‘faith and values’ voters in 2008…
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New York Skyline in the Balance As Real Estate Titans Square Off
It is a battle that has involved collapsing buildings, racially-charged protests and two of New York’s most powerful Jewish developers, pitted against each other for the future of New York’s skyline. At stake, say community activists, are the characters of two iconic, heavily Jewish New York neighborhoods known as bastions of middle-class liberalism. The main…
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Welcoming the Sabbath, Pistols And Machine Guns at the Ready
They are a minyan, just barely. Half of them come to pray with guns. The rabbi, Mitchell Schranz, would rather his congregants leave their Berettas and their M-4 rifles at home than bring them to this nondescript alcove, not far from a former palace of Saddam Hussein. But this is Camp Victory, the American military’s…
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Frist Hailed on Stem Cells
Erstwhile Christian conservatives are criticizing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for endorsing a bill that would expand federal support for stem-cell research, but Jewish organizations are hailing the Tennessee Republican. Frist’s decision — outlined in a lengthy July 29 speech on the Senate floor — came as a surprise to the bill’s supporters, who had…
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Muslim Council Condemns ‘Extremism’
Dozens of local Islamic centers and mosques across the country have held press conferences in the past week endorsing a recent religious edict — or fatwa — condemning “religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives.” The Fiqh Council of North America, a national body of 18 Muslim clerics, issued the fatwa on…
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Newsdesk August 5, 2005
FBI Eyes Diplomats The Federal Bureau of Investigation is demanding that Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, be interrogated in connection to the Pentagon spy case, according to Ha’aretz. It is possible the FBI will want to interrogate other Israeli diplomats, as well, in connection with Pentagon analyst…
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Sharon, Netanyahu Maneuver As Election Battle Looms
TEL AVIV — Although Israel’s disengagement from Gaza wasn’t scheduled to begin for another week and a half, the political circus known as the Day After Disengagement had its informal kickoff this week with the submission of the government’s 2006 budget proposal. It was a budget notably short on the draconian cuts for which Finance…
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U.S., Israel Backtrack on Iran’s Nukes
After years of dire warnings about Iran’s impending nuclear threat, Israeli and American officials abruptly backtracked this week, injecting a new level of uncertainty into delicate negotiations between European countries and Tehran. The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that Israel had reviewed its assessment of Iran’s nuclear progress and now believes that Iran will have a…
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Progressive’ Shmatte King, Sweatshop Foe, Faces Workers’ Protests Over Harassment
We would like to correct an error that appeared in the Forward’s July 22 article “‘Progressive’ Shmatte King, Sweatshop Foe, Faces Workers’ Protests Over Harassment,” regarding allegations against American Apparel founder Dov Charney. Our article stated that in July of last year, Jane magazine published a profile of Charney in which its writer described “a…
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Peres Urges Jews in U.S. To Support Development
The Bush administration has “already given positive signs that it intends to help us,” he said. “The Jewish people ought to do the same.” Intense Jewish support could be vital for passing the aid package, which would supplement the annual $2.6 billion in American economic and military aid that Israel receives each year. Though the…
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