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Former AIPAC Staffer Loses Lawsuit Against Lobby
A long and at times ugly legal battle between the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its former employee Steve Rosen ended Wednesday with victory for AIPAC. A Washington, D.C., Superior Court judge effectively threw out Rosen’s $20 million lawsuit against the pro-Israel lobby in which the former staffer alleged AIPAC had defamed him by…
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Fast Growing, Well-Paying Charity Jewish In Name Only
As the head of a charity ranked among the fastest-growing in the nation, and with an overall compensation package of more than $800,000, Alan R. Morse just might be one of the highest-paid nonprofit executives in the Jewish world. But as president and CEO of the Jewish Guild for the Blind, Morse is not a…
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Books In New Book, Grave Robbing and Other Stories of Poles’ Complicity
Jan Gross is once again forcing Poland to take a new look at its past. The Polish-American historian, whose previous books generated heated controversy and self-examination, has written a searing new indictment of Polish behavior toward Jews during World War II. “Golden Harvest,” a new book by Gross and his former wife, Irena Grudzinska-Gross, charges…
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Paying Tribute To the Fire’s Pained Legacy
For a list of events commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, click here. Piece by piece, the everyday blouses were assembled by hand, crafted in small steps from cuffs to collars, from basting to buttons. In cramped quarters, garment factory workers stitched the seams, fitted the sleeves and attached the lace as hundreds of $3…
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A Day in the Life of an Israeli Hospital, Cutting Edge Meets Ordinary Problems
As the rest of my family spent the day shopping in this picturesque port city on the Mediterranean, I was a few miles away in the hospital — not as a patient, thankfully, but as an observer. In an attempt to learn as much as possible about Israel’s emerging medical technologies, I passed the day…
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High-Profile Law Professor Dershowitz Joins WikiLeaks’ U.S. Defense Team
Alan Dershowitz is no stranger to high-profile cases: He represented kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst after a robbery conviction, helped boxer Mike Tyson try to appeal a rape conviction and signed on to O.J. Simpson’s legal “dream team.” But never before has the famed Harvard University law professor had a client who upended the entire…
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Palestinian-American Entrepreneur Re-Envisions West Bank Development
He’s the Palestinian-American who is determined to out-settle the settlers. In his chic office in Ramallah, Bashar Masri, believed to be the richest person in the Palestinian territories, is in high spirits. It’s February 3, his 50th birthday, and the past year has been a particularly good one. It is a year that has seen…
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Netanyahu’s New Nominee for U.N. Ambassador Awaits Vote by a Divided Cabinet
The recent showdown at the United Nations Security Council over a proposed resolution condemning Israel’s settlement policy did more than highlight Israel’s isolation in the international body. It also reminded many that for the past six months Jerusalem has been lacking a permanent ambassador to represent its interests in the most public arena of international…
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Report: Shapiro Is Obama’s Choice for Israel Envoy
Dan Shapiro, whose direct phone number in the White House is on speed dial for most Jewish leaders, could soon be heading to Israel as the top U.S. diplomatic envoy in Tel Aviv. According to a February 22 report in Politico, President Obama intends to appoint Shapiro, who serves as senior director for Middle East…
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Will Your 501st Channel Be Al Jazeera English?
Officials from Comcast, which provides cable service to one-fifth of the homes in the United States, met today with representatives of Al Jazeera English (AJE) to discuss the possibility of adding the channel to the Comcast cable lineup. Currently, the 24-hour AJE is not available in most U.S. cable television markets. It is only offered…
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Chuck Freilich, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Sounds Off at American Jewish Committee Session
Chuck Freilich, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Sounds Off at American Jewish Committee Session “Israel’s Situation in the Light of the Turmoil in the East,” a February 16 lecture by Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow at the International Security Program Belfer Center for Sciences & International Affairs at Harvard, held the nearly…
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