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Report: Iraq Now Tops Afghanistan As Terror Central
In what appears to be a devastating two-part blow to the Bush administration’s prewar case for toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. military has called off its failed two-year search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and a CIA-linked report claims that the Middle East country has replaced Afghanistan as the main training ground for…
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Groups Sign on to Abortion Rights Effort
WASHINGTON — America’s two largest synagogue movements and several major national Jewish agencies are joining a campaign to oppose attempts to outlaw abortion, arguing that reproductive rights are a religious freedom. The campaign was launched this week by the National Council of Jewish Women on the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kerry Forth: Cameron Kerry, Senator John’s Jewish brother, has joined the executive committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council. The post carries hefty duties: Committee members must pledge or raise $25,000 a year for the group. Cameron Kerry told the Forward he signed on “to continue the involvement I had in the campaign in outreach…
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Israel Blasted in Report On Survivors
JERUSALEM — Many European Holocaust victims looked to Israeli banks to serve as a refuge for their assets during World War II, but a new report suggests that it was an imperfect refuge at best. A Knesset committee issued a report Tuesday detailing thousands of accounts in Israeli banks that were never returned to Holocaust…
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Slogan Stirs Concern
Far-right Israeli activists put out a bumper sticker threatening Ariel Sharon’s life. Police sources said Sunday that the distributors of the sticker, which reads, “Sharon: Lily Awaits You,” could be probed for incitement to murder. The slogan refers to Sharon’s wife, Lily, who died in 2000. According to media reports, the outlawed far-right group Kach…
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Student Overdoses
Four American yeshiva students were arrested in Jerusalem in a sting operation Tuesday for dealing drugs, The Jerusalem Post reported. The arrests of the three 18-year-olds came a day after the death of a 19-year-old American yeshiva student from an apparent drug overdose. The 19-year-old, identified as Erik Nathan Fogel, was found dead near the…
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Violence Ends P.A. Chief’s Honeymoon
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon, has made no secret in the last year of his high regard for the newly installed chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. A little more than a year ago, Ya’alon went so far as to criticize his own government openly for failing…
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Large Delegation Meets With Pope
Some 150 Jewish officials thanked Pope John Paul II at the Vatican for his outreach efforts to Israel and to the Jewish world. The delegation, which included rabbis, cantors and other Jewish officials from Europe, Israel and North America, came to the Vatican on Tuesday under the auspices of the Pave the Way Foundation, a…
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Ukrainian Girls Recovering After Antisemitic Attack
Two Ukrainian Jewish girls are recovering from injuries they received in an antisemitic attack earlier this month. Natasha Zhvakalyuk, 11, underwent surgery on her nose, and Sveta Abramovich, 16, received medical treatment for a concussion. Both girls have left the hospital. The two were among a group of Orthodox children attacked in Southern Ukraine. Thirteen…
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Sharon, Symbol of Right, Stays In Office With Help of Leftists
TEL AVIV — Even if Ariel Sharon’s new government doesn’t last long, it already has made Israeli political history. In a bizarre turn of events, Sharon — for decades the most visible and most vilified symbol of the Israeli right — managed this week to survive as prime minister only because the left and several…
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Kabbalistic Kirtan: Just Replace Hindu With Hebrew
f you’ve ever been to a yoga class, you’ve probably performed kirtan, an ancient Hindu call-and-response chant practiced by Hindus and Sikhs. Now imagine that the phrases you were chanting were not Hindu, but Hebrew. Welcome to the newest rung in the Jewish spirituality ladder: kabbalistic kirtan. The genre — which features chanting Jewish names…
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