No Details Yet On U.S. Holocaust Fund
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer Jewish groups are taking a wait-and-see attitude about Monday's announcement that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to set up a fund for American companies wishing to...
View ArticleHoenlein Backing Off Apparent Swipe At Obama
by Larry Cohler-Esses Editor At Large The drumbeat call for “change” coming from the campaign of presidential candidate Barack Obama is generating “legitimate concern over the zeitgeist around the...
View ArticleIran-Israel Linkage By Bush Seen As Threat
by James D. Besser And Larry Cohler-Esses Washington Correspondent and Editor at Large. President Bush is risking a backlash that could injure the Jewish community — and his own cause — by repeatedly...
View ArticleControversial Minister Gets Pass From Jewish Leaders
by Larry Cohler-Esses and James D. Besser Editor at Large and Washington Correspondent. On the eve of his first U.S. visit since becoming deputy prime minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, who calls...
View ArticlePeace Group Fights Presidents Conference
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Groucho Marx once said he would never join a club that would accept him as a member. Presumably, he knew what the requirements were for joining. But that's apparently...
View ArticlePainful Memories
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Under a bright sun, Guilla Boukhobza walked up to a microphone in front of the Isaiah Wall near the United Nations and cleared her throat. For the first time, she was...
View ArticleLauder’s Proposed Serb Deal Eyed
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer They first met through Benjamin Netanyahu, who brought them together when both were supporting his ultimately successful 1993 bid to lead Israel’s Likud Party.But...
View ArticleU.S. Gets Off Bibi’s Back
by James D. Besser and Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writers For Israel, the pressure has lifted — for now. After weeks of escalating criticism, the Clinton administration has suddenly taken a more...
View ArticlePolice Conduct Eyed
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer When Tehran police handcuffed Sepehr Ebn Yamin last Sunday and hauled him off to jail in connection with a business dispute, the 45-year-old Iranian Jew’s health...
View ArticleU.S. Jewry Ready To Act On Iranians
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer The organized American Jewish community will soon “reassess” its policy of public restraint toward Iran if Tehran does not move toward freeing 13 Iranian Jews...
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