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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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Two Viktors and Ukraine’s Soil
Watching the whirlwind that threatened to engulf Ukraine in the wake of last week’s tainted presidential runoff, few Americans would deny feeling some measure of cosmic dread. Right there, before our eyes, in that nation of 48 million along the Black Sea, the fate of the world’s march toward democracy might be unfolding. No one…
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Bush Gingerly Re-enters Mideast Fray With Bid To Enlist Groups’ Support
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is turning to Jewish organizations to rally support for American efforts to kick-start the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In a top-level White House meeting Monday with Jewish communal leaders, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice announced the administration’s intention to step up efforts to advance the peace process, and said that…
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Controversial Imams Enter Dialogue With Rabbis
Some of the most influential and controversial Islamic clerics in the Middle East are participating in a plan to launch what organizers describe as the first joint-training institute to produce future moderate sheiks, rabbis, priests and ministers. The unprecedented proposal to create a summer religious institute — where young seminarians from the three faiths would…
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Kosher Corporation Releases a Cartoon ‘Passion’
Until this week, families made queasy by the violence in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” could take in Jesus’ flagellation and death in a kid-friendly cartoon version, “The Animated Passion Trilogy.” The cartoon is an odd spinoff from Gibson’s film, which offended many in the Jewish community. But even stranger is that the…
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U.N. Committee Passes Resolution (Correction)
In the November 26 article “U.N. Committee Passes Resolution,” Amy Goodstein’s position was misstated. She is currently director of United Nations affairs for B’nai Brith International. The November 12 editorial “How the Jews Vote” incorrectly identified the Federalist candidate for U.S. president in 1800. The candidate was John Adams. The Forward 50 entry on Under…
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Pro-Hezbollah TV Station Facing Ban
In an embarrassing retreat, the French broadcasting authority asked the country’s top administrative court to ban broadcasting from a pro-Hezbollah TV station less than two weeks after the authority granted the station a license. The High Audiovisual Council, known by its French acronym, CSA, said in a statement that it has requested the court to…
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Media Watchdog Threatens To Sue Professor
The feud between a pro-Israel media watchdog and a University of Michigan professor is fueling claims of Jewish attempts to silence criticism of Jerusalem and academic misdeeds on the part of pro-Palestinian professors. The president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, Yigal Carmon, has threatened to file suit against Juan Cole, a professor of…
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Rabbis Speak Out Against Insubordination in Israel
As right-wing opposition mounts to Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to dismantle settlements, several leading Modern Orthodox authorities are staking out a more moderate position. Three prominent rabbis — Rabbi Norman Lamm, chancellor and president emeritus of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, head of Israel’s Har Etzion yeshiva, and Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, a former Sephardic chief…
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