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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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GOP Activist Calls for Halt To Federation Donations
A Jewish GOP leader is calling on his fellow Republicans to withdraw their financial support from Jewish charitable institutions — especially federations — that express “hostility toward Republicans” or pursue “a differing political agenda.” Bruce Bialosky, former president of the Southern California region of the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Bush-Cheney ’04 Jewish outreach chair…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Election Dissection: Democrats must formulate much stronger national security and anti-terrorism positions and language if they expect to win the trust of American voters, a number of analysts and party operatives said at a post-election symposium December 3. “The public simply doesn’t trust us to keep them safe,” said Democratic strategist Jim Jordan at the…
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Mounting Scandal at Aipac Prompts Talk of Lobbying Powerhouse’s Demise
WASHINGTON — With senior officials at America’s top pro-Israel organization facing the specter of federal indictments, staffers at other groups are beginning to waver in their support and are warning that the mounting legal scandal could damage the political credibility of the entire Jewish community. The doubts were prompted by last week’s FBI raid of…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL December 10, 2004
In tune with the season, Der Yiddish-Vinkl devotes its column this week to the ever-uplifting subject of Hanukkah. What follows are two poems (songs) about this joyful holiday. The transliterations are by Goldie A Gold; the English versions are by Gus Tyler. The first piece is by M. Rivesman. Khanike, Oy, Khanike Khanike, oy, Khanike,…
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Peace Process Comes to Life With a Flurry of Diplomacy
TEL AVIV — As suddenly as it fell apart four years ago, the Middle East peace process sprang back to life this week in a rapid-fire series of dramatic developments that left Israelis rubbing their eyes in disbelief. The net result was optimism on both sides not seen since the outbreak of the intifada in…
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