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Failed Iran Diplomacy Shows America Must Offer Security
It may have been the biggest disaster for European diplomacy since the Balkan wars in the early 1990s. After years of delicate negotiations with Iran to convince the mullahs to abandon their quest for nuclear weapons, last week the “EU3” group of Germany, Britain and France made a final offer to Tehran — give up…
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Of Sugihara and Hiroshima
Among the 3,000 champagne-sipping guests crowded into New York City’s French Consulate for the July 14 Bastille Day celebration — hosted by consul general François Delattre and his wife, Sophie L’Hélias-Delattre — were Rabbi Arthur Schneier and his wife, Elisabeth; concert pianist Charlotte White (whose grandfather and father were avid readers of the Yiddish Forward),…
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Rightist’s Blast On Stem Cells Stirs Outrage
After a leading religious conservative leader compared stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments, several groups that condemned the analogy have reported a flood of messages from angry protesters, some of them threatening violence. During his syndicated radio show August 3, James Dobson, one of the country’s most influential religious conservatives and chairman of the conservative…
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Bus Attack Highlighting Links Of Israeli Extremists, Americans
Last week’s terrorist killing of four Israeli Arabs has cast light on a network of ties linking mainstream American Jewish groups to an extremist fringe in Israel that nurtured the Jewish gunman. The killer, Eden Natan-Zada, was a 19-year-old Israeli army conscript who had gone AWOL with his weapon after refusing to participate in the…
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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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