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Congress To Monitor Aid to Palestinians
WASHINGTON — Congress is taking the unprecedented step of establishing an in-house oversight apparatus to monitor daily how American aid money to the Palestinian Authority is being spent. Rep. Jim Kolbe, the Arizona Republican spearheading the effort as chairman of the House subcommittee dealing with foreign aid appropriations, said that the new system will monitor…
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Croatian Convert Speaks on Settlers’ Behalf
There were plenty of opportunities for Maayan Yadaiy to give up life in the Gazan settlement bloc of Gush Katif. The day after she moved to there, Yadiay, 27, was greeted by the frantic knocking of neighbors announcing Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to pull Israeli forces out of Gaza and relocate all of the Jewish…
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Protest Against Gaza Plan Falls Short of Expectations
The first American effort to mount a mass protest against the Gaza disengagement plan fell short of expectations on Sunday. Organizers had hoped that 35,000 people would show up for a concert in New York’s Central Park, mounted to protest Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan. The plan will evacuate Israeli troops and civilian settlements from…
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Disengagement Opponents Launch Public Campaign
TEL AVIV — Likud opponents of Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan have launched a new campaign aimed at thwarting the initiative. Under the slogan “The disengagement will bring terrorism — we need to rethink things,” members of Sharon’s own Likud Party kicked off their public campaign Monday. The campaign, said to be costing hundreds of…
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Antisemitism Conference Loses Its Sharp Focus
Diplomatic efforts to fight antisemitism in Europe appeared to suffer a setback this week, as a region-wide conference drafted a declaration lumping the age-old prejudice with Islamophobia and racism. Insiders said the draft declaration to be issued at the end of the meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Cordoba, Spain…
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British Museum in Moral Quandary Over Stolen Art
The British Museum wants to return a set of drawings stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis — but in this case, doing the “moral” thing is against the law. At stake are four old master drawings that were taken in 1939 from the Feldmanns, a Czech family, and sold to the British Museum…
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Standing at Sinai… Holding a Very Small Hand
God knows I’m no theologian. But as we approach Shavuot, I do think about the whole idea of revelation. I don’t care to hypothesize about whether God gave us the Torah all at once, in a big ol’ Sinai thunderclap, or whether Torah is given over and over as we discover new planets, create new…
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Bush Rapped For Support Of Saudi Deal To Join WTO
The Bush administration is under fire from a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress for supporting a deal for Saudi membership in the World Trade Organization despite Saudi Arabia’s anti-Israel stance and tepid counter-terrorism efforts. A letter to U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, co-signed by 47 House members from both parties, called it “premature to…
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Mene Mene Mystery
Writing about the coming Israeli disengagement from Gaza in The New York Times on May 1, correspondent Steven Erlanger predicts that after the Gaza evacuation will come the turn of settlers on the West Bank. The latter, he writes, “see the writing on the wall — ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin,’ in the mysterious Aramaic phrase,…
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Republicans Block Air Force Report
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have killed two measures aimed at requiring the Air Force to submit a plan for ensuring religious tolerance at its academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The measures come in the wake of allegations of religious intolerance and coercion directed by evangelical Christians at the academy against Jews, Catholics and others. The…
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A Female Scribe’s Trailblazing Effort
Though the phrase “a new kind of Torah” may seem like an oxymoron, a Jewish community in the state of Washington is preparing to receive just such a thing: a Torah penned by a woman. Kadima, a 27-year-old Jewish congregation in Seattle that had relied on borrowed scrolls, has commissioned Aviel Barclay, the world’s only…
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