Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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News Feeling Heat, Episcopal Church Backs Away From Divestment
The Episcopal Church is backing away from threats to divest from Israel, following a series of intense talks with Jewish community leaders in recent weeks. Instead, church leaders said they intend to pursue a Middle East investment policy that takes into consideration “obstacles to peace” on both the Palestinian and Israeli side, according to a…
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News Reconstructionists Boost Focus on Israel
Admitting that its relationship with Israel has grown estranged and must be re-configured, the Reconstructionist movement in America plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its national synagogue body this week with the expected approval of an ambitious plan to become a greater political and religious force inside the Jewish State, the Forward has learned….
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News Cancer Fund Capitalizes on Nobel Prizes
When Israeli scientists Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko won the Nobel Prize in chemistry last month, plenty of people had reason to celebrate. Beyond the two researchers, all Israelis can take pride in the country’s first Nobel science prize. Cancer patients everywhere can be heartened by the breakthrough research that earned the pair such an…
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News Cross-dressed To Kill: Cops Hold Hasid in Murder
On October 27, police found the body of a 75-year-old Jewish man from Brooklyn, N.Y., who had been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Then the police announced that the suspect in custody was the man’s roommate — a Hasidic cross-dresser. The Forward has learned that the victim, Rahamim “Raymond” Sultan, was a regular…
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News Rabbis Condemn Threats Against Sharon
With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon facing death threats from right-wing critics, Reform and Conservative leaders are rising to the defense of the Israeli ruler. On Monday, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, issued a statement vehemently condemning Orthodox calls for violence against Sharon. “That these comments are made by religious leaders…
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News Church Flap In Jerusalem: Bad Blood — And Saliva
It has been Jerusalem’s dirty little secret for decades: Orthodox yeshiva students and other Jewish residents vandalizing churches and spitting on Christian clergyman as they walk along the narrow, ancient stone streets of the Old City. Now, however, following a highly publicized fracas last week between a yeshiva student and the archbishop of Jerusalem’s Armenian…
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News Forum Weighs Strategies For Jewish-Muslim Talks
In an emerging national conversation about the future of Jewish-Muslim relations, several experts this week debated the appropriate conditions under which Jewish community officials should break bread with Islamic groups. The issue is a growing concern for Jewish leaders across the country as Islamic groups are increasing their visibility in national and local politics in…
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News College Campus Divided As Pro-Palestinian Gathering Draws Hundreds
About 50 pro-Palestinian students gathered at Duke University’s main quad last Sunday, chanting, “Divest from apartheid Israel.” About 20 pro-Israel students who, channeling John Lennon, chanted “All we are saying, condemn terror now,” met them. So ended the fourth annual national conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which gathered about 500 pro-Palestinian participants to various…
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