Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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News Dialogue With Moderate Muslims Urged
A new study says the American Jewish community must redefine its definition of militant Islam in order to create crucial new dialogue partnerships with American Muslims — the fastest-growing faith group in the United States. The as-yet-unreleased study, obtained by the Forward, argues that Jewish leaders are doing long-term damage by rejecting potential Muslim partners…
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News N.J. Sex Scandal Spills Into Orthodox World As Touro Link Is Eyed
The lawyers representing Golan Cipel, the Israeli at the heart of the political tumult in the Garden State, are attempting to debunk claims that their client was a partner or pawn in an elaborate scheme to bring down New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. In an exclusive interview with the Forward, one of Cipel’s two attorneys,…
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News Aide’s Security Post Disputed
Since Golan Cipel’s allegations against New Jersey Governor James McGreevey surfaced, media reports have asserted that McGreevey had tapped the Israeli in January 2002 to head the state’s new homeland security effort — leaving the aide in charge of protecting the lives of the Garden State’s 6 million residents only months after the September 11…
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News Furor Grows Over Cheney Remarks on Pearl Murder
Following a controversial speech by Vice President Dick Cheney, the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is urging Democrats and Republicans to refrain from turning his son’s death into a political football. Judea Pearl expressed his sentiments after Cheney’s August 12 speech, in which the vice president blasted Democratic presidential nominee Senator…
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News Iranian Judo Jab No Surprise for Rabbi
The refusal of an Iranian Olympic superstar to compete against an Israeli opponent in a judo match shocked and outraged sports observers and Jewish communal leaders this week. But a Pittsburgh rabbi, Alvin Berkun, told the Forward he knew last week that such a controversy was coming. The rabbi said that he had been tipped…
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News Olympic Spirit Drives Interfaith Meeting
A delegation of rabbis flew to Athens this week in an effort to bring the positive Olympic spirit to the contentious arena of religious relations. But it appears that this unprecedented endeavor will require some Olympic-class heavy lifting. The rabbis, all interfaith experts, were invited by leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church to meet with…
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News Evangelicals Seen Forging Alliance With ‘Messianic Jews’
The founder of a fundamentalist Christian men’s movement plans to forge a new alliance with “messianic Jews” that could undermine crucial relations between pro-Israel Evangelical Christians and the Jewish community. Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who in 1990 created Promise Keepers, a national Christian men’s ministry, is planning to launch “Road…
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News Protestant Group OKs Divestment From Israel
In an unprecedented victory for pro-Palestinian activists, leaders of the largest Presbyterian denomination officially equated the Jewish state with apartheid South Africa and have voted to stop investing in Israel. With the decision, approved in a 431-62 vote at the 216th annual General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA), the church, boasting nearly 3 million members,…
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