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Major Rabbinical Council Slammed For Releasing Names in Sexual Abuse Case
The nation’s leading Orthodox rabbinical organization is being accused of betraying women who say they were sexually abused or harassed by a prominent New York rabbi hailed for counseling women about their troubled marriages. Critics of the Rabbinical Council of America are blasting the group for giving Rabbi Mordecai Tendler and his attorney, Arnold Kriss,…
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As Israel Debates Syrian Overture, Washington Presses To Stop Talks
WASHINGTON — While Syria’s repeated offers to reopen peace talks with Jerusalem are triggering a fierce debate within the Israeli military and political establishment, the Bush administration appears united in its opposition to launching such negotiations. The administration is not officially advising Israel against such talks, Israeli and American sources said. But Washington has refrained…
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Private Confab Setting Israel’s Future
HERZLIYA, Israel — To its boosters, this seaside suburb north of Tel Aviv is Israel’s own West-chester County, a bedroom community for the affluent and a growing world center in its own right. To its detractors, that’s the problem. Their complaint tends to be quite specific: the expanding role of the Herzliya Conference. The conference,…
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Right-wing Faithful Fight Against the Tide
If world events had not intruded, these past few weeks might have been good for the Zionist Organization of America, a leading critic of the Oslo peace process and Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. On Sunday, the ZOA’s annual dinner drew its largest crowd in recent history. The event came just one week after Congress…
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Israel Offers Humanitarian Relief for Refugees in Darfur
The Israeli government is making its first contribution to alleviate the plight of refugees from the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. The Israeli Consul General in New York, Aryeh Mekel, announced on Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is joining with five American Jewish organizations to help establish a school at a…
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Candidate Reaches Out to Ukraine’s Jews
KIEV — In the run-up to Ukraine’s presidential re-vote, opposition candidate Viktor Yuschenko is taking steps to dispel fears among some Jews stemming from his political ties with Ukrainian nationalist groups. On December 9, Yuschenko made a public appearance in Kiev’s Central Synagogue to light Hanukkah candles. Some 400 Jews packed the shul, known here…
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U.S. Moves Against Lebanese TV Station
American authorities are set to designate as a terrorist entity a pro-Hezbollah TV station that was recently banned in France. An American official confirmed that the Treasury and State Departments were about to take such a step against Al Manar, a station based in Lebanon that has been broadcasting in America for several years. The…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kerry and Kofi: Senator John Kerry is adding his voice to those in support of embattled United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose resignation is being demanded by a growing chorus of American lawmakers enraged by the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal that allowed Iraq to evade international sanctions. “John Kerry does not believe there’s evidence that Kofi…
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Students Chop Cemetery’s Pine Trees
Santa Claus might not have to check his list twice to judge the naughtiness of five college students in Michigan who hopped the fence of a Jewish cemetery on December 6. According to police, the students cut down a pair of pine trees to decorate their dormitory. Four 18-year-old boys and one 19-year-old girl, all…
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Peru Power Feud Erupts… in Hebrew
LIMA, Peru — Peru’s unlikeliest political alliance became one of its ugliest rivalries last spring, when relations between the Andean nation’s first lady and its most powerful television mogul erupted into a violent shouting match — all in Hebrew. Eliane Karp and Baruch Ivcher, both former Israelis, had been among the leaders of the fight…
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Mothers Push Reforms in Family Courts’ Handling of Custody Cases
Amy Neustein’s marriage lasted less than four years; her battle to reform the court system that barred her from seeing her daughter following a nasty custody dispute has raged for nearly two decades. Now, Neustein, an Orthodox Jew with a doctorate in sociology, says she sees some light at the end of what has been…
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