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Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave
WASHINGTON — The country’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying organization has put on leave two top officials who are the target of an FBI investigation. Recently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee put Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on paid leave, the Forward has learned. It is not clear what led Aipac to take the step….
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Media Shows Arab Street Still Seethes About Israel
VIENNA — For those banking on democratization to reduce Arab hostility toward Israel, the recent public uprising in Lebanon and the Iraqi and Palestinian elections signaled a societal shift. Freedom is on the march in the Arab street, in this view; greater acceptance of the Jewish state would not be long in coming. But those…
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L.A. Gets a Touch Of (Yiddish) Class
When students show up at the New Community Jewish High School, in West Hills, Calif., next fall, they’ll receive more than the usual lab equipment and volumes of Shakespeare. They’ll be given Yiddish textbooks. Thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, the nondenominational high school will begin offering Yiddish as part of its curriculum, as…
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House Sets Limits on Palestinian Aid As DeLay Defies Calls of Bush, Rice
WASHINGTON — Defying the wishes of the Bush administration, Congress approved a foreign-aid package this week forbidding any direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority and, in a rare snub, denying the president the authority to waive restrictions in the interest of national security. The legislation was approved 388-to-44 in the House of Representatives and is…
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Hip-hop Musician Returns to His Funky Roots
Josh Dolgin thinks the Yiddish revival is over. “Enough talk of this f—-ing revival,” the 28-year-old musician bellowed during a recent phone interview from his home in Montreal. “It’s not a revival anymore — because it’s alive.” And he would know. Dolgin, aka DJ So Called, has pushed Yiddish closer to what is cool and…
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From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy
The international community had just learned the cruel truth about the large-scale massacres of innocent people by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The press had done its job: No one could say we didn’t know about it. I was invited by the International Rescue Committee as part of a delegation to go on site. We…
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Sweating Sharon Gets Break: Budget Battle Turns His Way
TEL AVIV — With just three weeks left before his statutory deadline to pass a state budget — or face new elections — Prime Minister Sharon appears to have emerged this week onto a suddenly transformed landscape, turning what had looked like a life-and-death struggle into something more like a garage sale. Theoretically, Sharon is…
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Students, Outsiders Spar at Columbia Conference
A conference at Columbia University designed to highlight alleged intimidation by Arab professors took an unexpected turn March 6 when three pro-Israel students took to the stage to criticize anti-Palestinian and anti-Islamic statements by previous speakers. “I have to take serious issue with many of the statements made here today,” said Ariel Beery, one of…
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To Boldly Go Where No Jew Has Gone: Book Features Klingon Intermarriage
Esther Silvers is boldly going where no Jew has gone before —under the chupah with a Klingon. The main character in the “Star Trek” e-book series, “Starfleet Corps of Engineers,” Esther is marrying out (of the species) — to Khor, the son of the Klingon ambassador to Earth. The latest installment of the series, “Creative…
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While Byrd Takes Heat, GOP Suffers From Amnesia
Judging from their rush last week to condemn Senator Robert Byrd, Republicans are either recovering from a collective case of laryngitis or suffering from mass amnesia. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, recently infuriated Republicans by comparing their plan to ban the filibustering of judicial nominees to the tactics used by Adolf Hitler to consolidate…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
American Apathy?: Is the White House snubbing Israel? It kind of looks that way. In what is expected to be the largest gathering of world leaders in Israel (with the exception of the 1995 funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin) in the Jewish state’s history, leaders of 30 nations are descending next week on Jerusalem…
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