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U.S.-born Israeli Soldier Court Martialed
JERUSALEM — An American-born Israeli soldier was court-martialed this week and sentenced to 56 days in jail after refusing to participate two days earlier in the demolition of deserted settler homes in Gaza. New Jersey-born Avi Bieber, a 19-year-old corporal, was convicted on three counts of refusing to carry out an order during the June…
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Orthodox Disagree With Other Jews on Gaza Pullout, Iraq War
A new poll is underscoring the growing ideological chasm between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews in America. The poll, commissioned by Yeshiva University, found that Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews hold diametrically opposite views on a host of national security issues related to the Middle East conflict. In one example, 59% of the Orthodox respondents said they…
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Right-wing Columnist Calls For Coup To Oust Sharon
A prolific right-wing American Jewish commentator has called for Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to be court-martialed and “relieved of his command of the nation’s military.” Emanuel A. Winston, a regular columnist for the Jewish Press, a prominent Orthodox-oriented newspaper in Brooklyn, issued his call for a military coup in one of the many columns that…
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Hasidim Rally Against Disengagement
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim gathered in New York City last week to rally community opposition to Israel’s plan to dismantle settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank. The rally, held June 23 at the movement’s worldwide headquarters in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, featured Arieh Eldad, a Knesset member from the National Union…
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Speaker Nixed At ZOA Parley
One prominent no-show at the ZOA gathering was Stephen Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. Schwartz, a convert to Islam and a former Washington correspondent for the Forward, was scheduled to speak Tuesday about Saudi Arabia. But days earlier, his name was quietly removed from the press release on the ZOA’s Web…
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Ayalon: West Bank Settlements To Stay
WASHINGTON — In an address to a right-wing American Jewish organization, Israel’s ambassador to Washington pledged that his government would not remove any more West Bank settlements after the planned dismantling of four communities in August. The Israeli ambassador, Daniel Ayalon, made his remarks to members of the Zionist Organization of America during the organization’s…
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Lawyers’ Fees Questioned In Gold Train Settlement
An out-of-court settlement has put the moral questions surrounding the Hungarian Gold Train on hold, but a new debate has sprung up over how much money should go to attorneys who prosecuted the case. Last week, the law firms involved petitioned the judge for $3.85 million of the $25.5 million that the American government has…
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Sharanksy Rejected Before WZO Vote
An election for the next chairman of the World Zionist Organization appeared to come down, like so much else in Israel these days, to a fight over the Gaza disengagement plan. The race pitted Ze’ev Bielski, a centrist member of the Likud Party who supports disengagement, against Natan Sharansky, another Likud Party member, who resigned…
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This Independence Day, a Chance For Global Freedom From Poverty
One billion people in the developing world live on $1 or less a day, lacking clean water, electricity, food, education and medical care. This July 4, as we Americans proudly celebrate our independence, it is our hope that President Bush fully contemplates the opportunity he has to help free many of them from the chains…
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Evangelicals Eye Middle Ground On Middle East
WASHINGTON — The nation’s main coalition of evangelical Christian churches is under internal pressure to adopt a Middle East policy for the first time, and observers expect the group to emerge more centrist and moderate than its current image. In recent weeks, key members of the National Association of Evangelicals, a loose federation of 52…
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Newsdesk July 1, 2005
Gonzales Reaches Out Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met with leaders of the Anti-Defamation League last week for his third powwow with Jewish communal leaders since early May. During the meeting, he vowed to make himself accessible to the Jewish community, as well as to other minority groups in America. Officials at Jewish organizations said that…
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