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Sharon, Abbas Seek U.S. Support on Settlements
WASHINGTON — As they prepare for separate meetings with President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas are battling to secure White House endorsements of their conflicting positions on West Bank settlements. Sharon, who will travel to Crawford, Texas, on April 11 for his first meeting at Bush’s private ranch, wants…
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Tensions Over Disengagement Split Army
TEL AVIV — Tensions between the religious settler community and the political mainstream reached into the army’s General Staff and boiled over this week, in an unusual confrontation that could be a sign of things to come as the July date nears for disengagement from Gaza. The eruption came at a meeting of senior officers…
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Conservative ‘Academic Bill of Rights’ Picks Up Steam
Urged on by conservative provocateur David Horowitz, lawmakers in several states are pushing legislation requiring unprecedented government oversight of teaching on college campuses. In Florida last week, a key legislative committee approved the so-called “Academic Bill of Rights” in an 8-2 vote. The decision came after the bill’s Republican sponsor inveighed against “leftist totalitarianism” among…
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Schiavo Set-to: Some Connecticut liberals are seizing on Senator Joseph Lieberman’s stance approving of congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo matter to press their case that Lieberman is out of touch with Nutmeg State voters. Lieberman, one of only a few Jewish lawmakers to approve of Congress’s bid to override the Florida courts and restore…
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Sidney Eisenshtat, 90, Leading Synagogue Architect
Sidney Eisenshtat, one of America’s leading synagogue architects, died March 1 in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old. Eisenshtat was a prolific architect in Southern California, and an influential architect of modern synagogues. He graduated from the University of Southern California ‘s School of Architecture in 1935 and maintained his architectural practice in Los…
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International Court Criticized for Uganda Intervention
The newly formed International Criminal Court, already facing outright opposition from the Bush administration, is now under criticism from local leaders in northern Uganda , as it is about to issue its first-ever arrest warrants, against leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. A coalition of Ugandan religious and traditional leaders, backed by human rights…
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Audit Probes Rabbinical Union’s Missing Cash
HOUSTON — An independent auditor believes that the Reform rabbinical union’s missing $1 million was spent on a legitimate organizational expense, according to the group’s incoming president. The newly elected president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Harry Danziger, told the Forward that the finding was contained in an interim report filed by independent…
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Hoax Shines Light on JTS Policy on Gays
An anonymous Jewish women’s group threw a monkey wrench into a Jewish Theological Seminary celebration Tuesday when it issued a fake press release announcing that the Conservative movement was set to unveil a historic plan to ordain gay and lesbian rabbis. The group, Jewish Women Watching, has claimed credit for the bogus press release, which…
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Newsdesk April 1, 2005
Chess Masters Slam Jews The two combatants in the world’s most famous chess match, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, have both generated recent headlines with antisemitic statements. Fischer, who won the classic 1972 match, launched into his standard anti-Western and anti-Jewish diatribes after he was freed last week from a Japanese prison, where he was…
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Only Systematic Reform Can Save Scandal-Ridden United Nations
FORWARD FORUM A report detailing rampant corruption in the United Nations’s oil-for-food program for Iraq was released on Tuesday by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. The misdeeds of Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son detailed in the report are perhaps more egregious than previous transgressions at the U.N. They, however, are only the latest ethical…
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To Hurt It Can’t Hurt
‘B’seder, le’hazik zeh lo yazik,” a visitor to my house said the other day when I offered him an aspirin for the headache he’d complained of. In Hebrew, his remark was perfectly normal. Translated literally into English, however, it would sound rather strange, to wit: “All right, to hurt it can’t hurt.” In more ordinary…
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