John Smith http://www.jta.org/user/profile/66391 en-us zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If Carter's grandson wasn't running for office this "apology" would not have been made! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's time Turkey was called to task for its treatment of Kurds and Armenians. If any country is guilty of "crimes against humanity," Turkey is certainly one of them! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This reminds me of Mel Gibson's drunken tirade when he was stopped for drunk driving. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It would appear that Chais became the victim of his own scheme! The fact that his foundation was "wiped out" just goes to show that "what goes around, comes around." He obviously wasn't in cahoots with Madoff and his Ponzi scheme; he was as naive as all of the other investors. But since he lied to his clients, he's guilty as sin! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Kudos to the residents of Belleville! Belleville should be a model for all multi-ethnic / multicultural / multiracial communities! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It would also disenfranchise the Seventh Day Adventists. Anyone for a Sunday caucus? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is disgraceful. It is racist, pure and simple. Those of us in the U.S. know all about "separate but equal." It's a sham! If the schools want to be kept segregated, then they should do so without any government funds whatsoever! U.S. Jewish organizations such as the ADL should be protesting loudly regarding the refusal to admit these Ethiopian Jews to these schools! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The anti-Semites will get a field day from this...first Madoff and now rabbis...and it's about money...just what the Jewish community needs...it's shameful! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Great...First Madoff and now this...rabbis no less! Just more fodder for the anti-Semites! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Israeli government probably would rather spend the money on resettling the Russian Jews in Israel and not increase their comfort level in Russia. Especially since the Jewish Agency is presently involved. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Just as folks in the U.S. have said, "America, love it or leave it," folks in Israel should relay the message to it's Arab inhabitants, "Israel, love it or leave it!" 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Jason Greene misses the point. Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and some others were murdered for who they were. Today we would call them hate crimes...and the penalties in most U.S states are greater than the same criminal act not deemed as such. Certainly, millions more were killed in the war, no one denies that. But they died as a result of war, not as a result of government policy in a "Final Solution." In the twenty-first century,genocide and "ethnic cleansing" is something that should never be tolerated or minimized. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I am making an educated guess that Ken Solomon is Jewish...I think if he didn't do what he did the ramifications would have been great. I think he did what most all Jews would have done...it didn't take courage...it was the right thing to do. Too bad he wasn't the head of the Olympics in 1972. Canceling those games after the Israeli athletes were masacred...now that would have taken courage! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00