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Anti-BDS Conference Takes Over a Most Unusual Venue — the United Nations
In March, the United Nations compiled a “black list” of Israeli companies doing business in the West Bank. In some pro-Israel circles, it appeared part of a larger trend: the UN singling out Israel for condemnation. But on May 31, Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress hosted what they…
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New York Child Sex Abuse Reform Hangs by Thread — Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo Act?
The clock is ticking toward midnight, and dimming hopes now seem to rest with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a bill that would enable thousands of child sex abuse victims to seek justice from their abusers. Victim advocates had considered twin bills introduced this year to be their best chance yet to extend the…
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After Dan Markel Murder Arrest, Friends Hope To Win Justice for Slain Law Professor
In July of 2014, a young Jewish law professor named Dan Markel was pulling into the driveway of his brick house on Trescott Drive in Tallahassee, Florida, when someone pointed a gun through the window of his Honda Accord and shot him in the head. Markel died within hours, leaving behind two young sons, a…
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Donald Trump Faces Summer of Yucks and Jeers From Liberal Jews
Boycott Trump? Mock Trump? Trump, the musical? Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, is convening its first national conference here next week aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real…
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Can American Jews Rescue Western Wall Prayer Deal?
The deadline for resolving the crisis over the new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem has been extended indefinitely, after an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to draft a solution acceptable to the opposing sides within the 60 days he was allotted. Meanwhile, leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements…
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Turkish Jews Proudly Defend Last Sephardic Homeland — Even as Some Flee
A prominent Turkish-Jewish businessman and politician, Cefi Kamhi is chairman of an Istanbul-based consulting agency and television distribution company. He heads three councils for Turkey’s foreign economic relations board, and represents his home country in the European Jewish Parliament. His wife is Muslim. Yet after several assassination attempts, Kamhi is under 24-hour police protection to…
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Police Arrest Alleged Hitman for Cold-Blooded Murder of Law Professor
Florida police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor who was shot in his Tallahassee driveway in 2014. Authorities arrested Sigfredo Garcia, 34, at a Miami-area gas station on May 25, and charged him with first-degree murder. The Tallahassee Democrat reported May 26 that Markel’s death is…
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Chris Lerman, 90: She Helped America Remember the Holocaust
I first met Rosalie Chris Lerman and her husband, Miles Lerman, in 1978 when I interviewed for the position of deputy director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. As they said in “Casablanca,” it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. In the almost 40 years that followed we worked together building the United…
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Will Bernie Sanders Ignite Israel Feud at Democratic Convention?
Washington – The first Jew with a shot at the White House used to be known for his inability to talk about anything except American economic injustice. But now Bernie Sanders is increasingly emphasizing his lone foreign policy interest: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Palestinian suffering in particular. And that could set the stage for a…
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How an Orthodox High School Takes Spammers to Court — and Reaps Rewards
Sometime in the late morning of November 27, 2012, a fax machine rang at a high school for Orthodox girls in Rockland County, New York. The message that spooled out of the machine’s printer was an invitation to an information session about a London-based university. The Orthodox school’s response to the fax? A lawsuit, filed…
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Less Than Half of American Millennials Sympathize With Israel Over Palestinians: Pew Study
Americans overwhelmingly continue to side with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Pew foreign policy survey shows — except for Millennials are more likely to sympathize with Palestinians. The survey, published earlier this month showed that a decade ago, Americans across the generations held similar views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Not any more. Today, Millennials…
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