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Program Seeks Emerging Leaders
A new program in Los Angeles dedicated to finding and training emerging leaders for local synagogues graduated its first class this month. Called the Los Angeles Synagogue Leadership Institute, the program, crafted by the Los Angeles Board of Rabbis, gathered 35 students from all the major denominations and taught them, over the past two years,…
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Orthodox Synagogue Votes To Shift Its Affiliation
One of America’s last family-seating Orthodox-affiliated synagogues with mixed-gender seating voted this month to join the Conservative movement, leaving only one family-seating Orthodox synagogue in the entire country. Agudas Achim, a synagogue in Columbus, Ohio, voted to rescind its Orthodox affiliation at a meeting this month. The vote followed a long decision-making process in which…
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Conservatives Cut Social Action Officer
WASHINGTON — As the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly steps up its social action, the movement’s association of synagogues has axed its social-action officer to save money. The two unrelated developments represent a temporary shift in the gentle contest between the Conservative movement’s congregational arm and its rabbinical union over social action and involvement in public…
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Western Communities Battle Isolation
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — A conference this month aimed at reviving Jewish life among communities in the American West turned into a debate between communal and religious leaders over the character of Jewish identity. The conference, Hadesh West, was organized by United Jewish Communities’s Renaissance and Renewal Pillar and brought together more than 70 leaders…
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Pols Pressure President Over Saudi WTO Entry
Senators and members of the House of Representatives are calling on the Bush administration to oppose Saudi Arabia’s admittance into the World Trade Organization unless the kingdom clearly renounces its support of the Arab boycott against Israel, aggressively cracks down on terrorist financing and improves its human rights record. In two separate letters sent last…
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Groups Cheer Senate Passage of Hate-crime Bill
Several Jewish groups last week welcomed the Senate’s approval of a bill that would broaden the federal government’s authority to prosecute criminals who commit acts of violence or intimidation against individuals because of the victim’s gender, disability or sexual orientation. The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act, which passed the Senate last week by a margin…
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Former Defense Official Offers Grim Mideast View
WASHINGTON — A former undersecretary of defense is saying that Israel is missing an opportunity to leave the territories and has tried the patience of an extremely sympathetic president. In his first interview since leaving the Bush administration, Dov Zakheim’s take on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute was grim. “It’s a huge mistake,” Zakheim said, referring to…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL June 18, 2004
For our regular contributor, Stanley Siegelman, whatever may be happening anywhere, no matter how far away or seemingly obscure, serves as an inspiration for his Yinglish versification and his delightfully delicious sense of humor. This time, he reaches all the way to Israel to inform us about a Hebrew version of Cosmopolitan, a magazine that…
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Court Actions Highlight Lack Of Special Rep On Restitution
The last month has seen the first major spate of legal action on Holocaust-era issues since 2001, when the Bush administration downgraded the American government’s representation on restitution and reparations matters. To observers from almost every side of the debate, the recent wrangling in court has revealed the deep impact the absence of Stuart Eizenstat,…
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Halliburton Investigated For Iran Ties Under Veep
A Treasury Department investigation into the activities of oil giant Halliburton in Iran is looking at potentially suspicious business contacts between Iran’s oil company and Halliburton at the time it was headed by Vice President Richard Cheney. According to documents dating from 1997 and 1998, a Dubai-based Halliburton subsidiary received at least a dozen tender…
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Bush Pushing Israel on Terms Of Disengagement From Gaza
WASHINGTON — As Israel prepares to withdraw from Gaza, the Bush administration is laying down a stiff series of expectations that could set the stage for a rocky few months between Washington and Jerusalem, pro-Israel activists say. President Bush expects Israel to start taking steps to rehabilitate Gaza’s shattered economy by setting up mechanisms to…
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