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Kerry’s Plan Is Dangerous
When I accompanied George W. Bush on his first trip to Israel in 1998, I had no inkling he would one day lead a global coalition to conquer terrorism. During that trip, we both saw threats that seemed remote to most Americans but were part of daily life in Israel. In the Middle East’s only…
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Kerry Rails Against Bush on Holocaust Restitution
Stepping up his bid for Jewish votes in Florida, Senator John Kerry accused the Bush administration Monday of “dragging its feet” on the contentious Hungarian Gold Train case, a Holocaust restitution suit against America’s government that is moving through federal court in Miami. Hungarian Holocaust survivors brought the class-action case in 2001. They are seeking…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — With polls showing that this most crucial of swing states could once again determine the presidency, both the Bush and Kerry campaigns are bombarding the region with high-profile emissaries in an effort to boost Jewish support. The frenzied push to harvest Jewish votes comes in a state in which Bush won by…
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Groups Quietly Root for Dems In Senate Races
WASHINGTON — With polls showing Democratic congressional candidates gaining ground in several states, officials at Jewish organizations are quietly rooting for an end to Republican control of the Senate. The focus on the Senate, which the GOP controls with 51 votes, comes as many Jewish communal organizations have voiced strong approval for President Bush’s policies…
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In Gaza Face-off, Sharon Shows Foes Who’s Boss
JERUSALEM — For a day as historic as this one, the scene last Tuesday was almost comic: Ariel Sharon, facing the most crucial vote of his present term as prime minister, sat stoically at his usual place in the Knesset, eyes forward, hardly blinking. The four ministers challenging him, including finance minister and heir apparent…
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Rabbi Is in Training For the Long Run
SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a long, strange, wonderful run for Rabbi Lisa Gelber. Literally. The 36-year-old associate dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School in New York ran a marathon through San Francisco last Sunday, physically expressing her spiritual passions: celebrating women’s role in the rabbinate, pursuing cures for blood cancers and…
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Influential American Jewish Coalition Balks at Endorsing Sharon’s Gaza Plan
WASHINGTON — Despite a strong pitch from Israel’s ambassador to the United States, American Jewry’s top representative body balked this week at adopting a statement directly endorsing Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement plan. In a dramatic series of events, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations held a stormy meeting October 14 in its…
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Newsdesk October 22, 2004
New Leader for Russian Body The Russian Jewish Congress is likely to have a new president in an apparent attempt to restructure one of Russian Jewry’s leading organizations. During a closed-door meeting Tuesday, the group’s leading donors approved Vladimir Slutsker to replace the current president, Yevgeny Satanovsky. A banker and member of Russian Parliament’s upper…
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Despite Anti-Israel Feelings, Iraqis Ponder Future Ties
JERUSALEM — The leader of Iraq’s Kurdistan Democracy Party appeared on television this week to deny widespread rumors that the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan is harboring Israelis. “There are none,” Masoud Barzani assured millions of viewers on Al Arabiya satellite television. “If there were to be, it would only be with the approval of…
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Forum Weighs Strategies For Jewish-Muslim Talks
In an emerging national conversation about the future of Jewish-Muslim relations, several experts this week debated the appropriate conditions under which Jewish community officials should break bread with Islamic groups. The issue is a growing concern for Jewish leaders across the country as Islamic groups are increasing their visibility in national and local politics in…
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College Campus Divided As Pro-Palestinian Gathering Draws Hundreds
About 50 pro-Palestinian students gathered at Duke University’s main quad last Sunday, chanting, “Divest from apartheid Israel.” About 20 pro-Israel students who, channeling John Lennon, chanted “All we are saying, condemn terror now,” met them. So ended the fourth annual national conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which gathered about 500 pro-Palestinian participants to various…
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