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Posted in: In Beit Shemesh, residents struggle to counter violent religious coercion
To paraphrase Martin Niemoller: "In Israel, they came first for the Arabs, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Arab; And then they came for the leftists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a leftist; And then they came for the secularists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a secularist; And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Posted in: Franken recount victory leaves Senate without Jewish GOPers
Fingerhut writes, "...for the first time in decades, a moderate GOP Jewish voice -- embodied over the years not only by Specter but also Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and the late Jacob Javits of New York -- will be absent from the Senate." Two observations: 1) Moderate Republicans are an endangered species in and out of Congress, period. 2) Just because he is Jewish does not make Coleman a "moderate." (The same holds true for Eric Cantor.) Have a look at the articles and press releases on the website of the Republican Jewish Coalition, with which Coleman has already assumed a top leadership position: they're indisguishable from the worst trash broadcast by Fox News and by Rush Limbaugh. Then again, based on his apparent bias in nearly all of his articles for JTA, Eric Fingerhut is clearly more comfortable in the Republican camp as well.
Posted in: Israeli and son die in Queens
In 2006, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the plant $1,500 after a worker was crushed to death by a Caterpillar wheel-loader the previous year, according to federal records. Records from the most recent OSHA inspection, conducted earlier this year, show that the federal agency identified several serious violations at the plant, including violations concerning floor and wall openings and holes, industrial stairs, respiratory protection, medical services, and oxygen-fuel gas welding and cutting. The company was directed to pay thousands of dollars in penalties in connection with those violations. But if two of the three workers who perished hadn't been Israeli, JTA wouldn't even have noticed.
Posted in: Security guard killed in Holocaust museum attack
According to Dept. of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano, the DHS issued a report in April warning of anti-Semitic violence by white supremacists. It was ridiculed and disparaged by the right-wingers with whom our Jewish organizations are making common cause. Where was the American Jewish Committee? Honoring Rupert Murdoch, owner and patron of hatemongering Fox News (Murdoch was presented with the AJC National Human Relations Award, March 4, 2009 in New York City) and villifying NY Times columnist Roger Cohen! The ADL? Campaigning for divestment from firms doing business with Iran, instead of focusing on the threat of domestic terrorism here in the US.
Posted in: Obama: No Iran options off table
Reza Santorini--Iran was NOT "a Hitler supporter during World War II. " Reza Shah was staunchly anti-British, as was the Irgun in Palestine, and for good reason. Britain, with Russia, subverted the 1907 constitutional revolution in Iran and divided up the country between until Reza Kahn Pahlavi came along. He was therefore replaced by the Allies in 1940 with his son, Mohammed Reza. Iran spent the war under Allied occupation, and many Jews were able to make their way through Iran from Poland and Russia to Palestine, including the "Tehran children." Nor is it any part of the Iranian "belief system" to kill Jews. If you are getting this from Megillat Esther (which I doubt that you are well informed enough to do), the story is based on an incident of persecution of Babylonian worshippers of Bel by Xerxes, who was a staunch and uncompromising Zoroastrian monotheist. While Persian history includes some periods of Jewish persecution (the worst of which, incidentally, took place in the context of religiously reconfiguring the country from Sunni to Shiite in the 16th century), so do the histories of England, France, Spain, Russia and most of Europe.
Posted in: Israelis watching, waiting ahead of Obama-Bibi meeting
Dinar Kraft neglected to mention that Eldar also said in his Haaretz article, "Like a spoiled child, Israel is in no rush to willingly surrender real estate it holds and has settled for decades. (A survey by Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal and Dr. Eran Halperin found that 53 percent of Israelis consider the West Bank liberated territory and only a minority sees it as occupied territory.) Even though the threat of Israel becoming a binational or apartheid state increases annually, such pressure is insufficient to make it pull out of the territories. Israeli decision makers have decided to give up the territories only if the price of the status quo, in foreign currency, is much higher than the price they will have to pay in local currency for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of settlers and the division of Jerusalem. "
Posted in: Brzezinski, Scowcroft say Iran threatens regional arms race
Sorry, above comment posted to the wrong story.
Posted in: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: Hadassah woman
Three month ago Hadassah claimed to have lost $90 million to swindler Bernard Madoff ($40 million they invested with him and $50 million in nonexistent “profits"). If I were Carla Bruni-Sarkozy or anyone else wanting to fundraise for an organization that lost money with Madoff, I`d insist that any and all money raised--whether to fight AIDs or for pediatric oncology or for whatever worthy research I was trying to help--must be used for that purpose, rather than being amassed and handed over to a shyster to “build for the future.”.
Posted in: Brzezinski, Scowcroft say Iran threatens regional arms race
Three month ago Hadassah claimed to have lost $90 million to swindler Bernard Madoff ($40 million they invested with him and $50 million in nonexistent "profits"). If I were Carla Bruni-Sarkozy or anyone else wanting to fundraise for an organization that lost money with Madoff, I`d insist that any and all money raised--whether to fight AIDs or for pediatric oncology or for whatever worthy research I was trying to help--must be used for that purpose, rather than being amassed and handed over to a shyster to "build for the future.".
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Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
Posted in: Is the turbulent health care debate bad for the Jews?
08/19/09 03:36 PM
What is REALLY bad for the Jews is a lunatic like Orly Taitz being welcomed as a "rising star" in Israel, especially by the Channel 9 Russian racists.