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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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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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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Cameras in Hand, Volunteers Monitor Palestinian Checkpoints
HUWWARA, West Bank — Israelis were shocked and outraged last month by a video still of a young Palestinian man playing his violin in front of Israeli soldiers at a security checkpoint in the West Bank. Published in Ha’aretz, the picture prompted comparisons to Holocaust-era images of Nazi guards commanding helpless Jews to perform for…
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U.N. Conference Denounces Terrorism, Racism
UNITED NATIONS — Even as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Muslims to condemn extremists preaching and committing violence in the name of Islam, several participants of a special conference on “Islamophobia” were blaming “racist America” as the root cause for the rise in hate crimes against Muslims. The embattled Annan, target of a rising…
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Throngs Welcome Home Freed Israeli
Meeting a man who, only three days earlier, was still, in his words, “dead,” stuck in a cement cellblock of Egyptian solitary confinement, is an experience for which few come prepared. To observe the human parade visiting Azzam Azzam, the released Israeli prisoner, last Tuesday at his home in the Galilee town of Mrar was…
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U.S. Urges Barghouti To Drop Candidacy
WASHINGTON — American officials are pressing jailed leader Marwan Barghouti to withdraw from next month’s Palestinian elections, in what some insiders describe as a desperate attempt to salvage the newfound progress in the peace process and avoid an embarrassing blow to America’s push for democracy in the Arab world. The Forward has learned that American…
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Talk Show Host Blasts Caller’s ‘Anti-Christmas’ Attitude
Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly chastised a Jewish caller on his radio show who objected to “Christmas going into schools.” The caller said he “grew up with a resentment because I felt that people were trying to convert me to Christianity.” In response, O’Reilly, a self-described traditionalist who has suggested that much of…
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Florida Woman Wanted After Abduction Threat
A woman from Boca Raton, Fla., who in recent years has placed ads in the Forward imploring readers to pressure courts to return custody of her two children to her, is wanted by the police for nonpayment of child support and for improper contact after placing ads in a local newspaper seeking others to help…
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O.U. Reverses Stance on Slaughterhouse
In a significant shift, the Orthodox Union has moved from supporting the controversial practices employed by a kosher slaughterhouse under its supervision to requesting that certain of these practices be changed. The move came amid a furious publicity blitz conducted by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Armed with a…
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