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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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Philologos vs. Dovid Katz, Round II
Last week’s column ended with a brief description of linguist Dovid Katz’s theory of the origins of Yiddish. Succinctly restated in Katz’s newly published history of Yiddish “Words on Fire,” this theory holds that the first speakers of Yiddish did not arrive, as is generally assumed, in a German-speaking area of Europe from elsewhere on…
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Venezuelan Community on Edge After Police Raid Jewish School
When scores of armed police showed up early on Monday, November 29, at the Hebraica community center and Jewish school in Caracas to search for evidence related to the murder of a prosecutor, several years of quiet anguish over the deteriorating situation of Jews in Venezuela finally boiled over. Venezuelan and American Jewish leaders blasted…
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Israelis Push Frontiers of Science With Breakthrough in Stem-cell Research
While American authorities have diverged over the proper tack to take on stem-cell research, Israeli scientists this week announced a pair of stunning advances in the field. On Sunday, a team from Hadassah University Medical Center went public with what they say is the first study in which rats with Parkinson’s disease experienced improvement after…
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Donors Mobilize Resources To Ease Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis
In the November 12 story “Donors Mobilize Resources To Ease Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis,” the rabbi at Judea Reform Congregation was identified incorrectly. His name is John Friedman.
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Anti-Arab Sentiments High Among Soldiers
One in five Israeli soldiers has anti-Arab sentiments, a top general said. According to a briefing given Monday by the Israeli military’s manpower chief, Major General Elazar Stern, 20% of draftees do not have proper regard for Palestinian life and are more liable to abuse Palestinians at military checkpoints. But he also accused some left-wing…
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Terrorist Settler Headed to Jail
An Israeli court Monday sentenced Jewish settler Shahar Dvir-Zeliger to eight years in jail for membership in a terrorist organization aimed at carrying out attacks against Arab civilians and for unlawful possession of weapons stolen from Israel’s army. Zeliger was convicted in September of belonging to a terrorist organization under a counter-terrorism order — the…
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