Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Annan’s Legacy Debated as Term Ends
Israeli officials and most Jewish communal leaders would agree with the following: Kofi Annan took unprecedented steps to make Israel a full member of the United Nations, combat antisemitism and make sure that the Holocaust was paid proper respect within the world body. They would, however, also subscribe to the point of view that Annan…
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News Leaders Meet New U.N. Chief
As Kofi Annan exits the scene, his successor, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, has been making his first set of public appearances and speeches. In addition, he has held private meetings with a variety of interlocutors, including Jewish groups. Jewish communal officials who recently have met Ban noted his underwhelming personality and his lack of…
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News U.N. Chief Pressured To Bypass Businessman
The incoming United Nations secretary-general has yet to take office, but a controversy is already engulfing his nascent relationship with the American Jewish community. South Korea’s Ban-Ki Moon, who will begin his term January 1 with little experience regarding Israel and its supporters, is coming under fire for his team’s relationship with a little-known Orthodox…
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News As Washington Studies Iraq Report, Jerusalem Frets Over Tehran Talk
While the release of the long-awaited Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq policy has produced an outpouring of protest from Jewish groups opposing its calls for talks with Iran, Syria and the Palestinians, insiders say that the real target of Israel’s anxiety is neither Syria nor the Palestinians, but Iran and its nuclear program. Earlier this week,…
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News AJCongress Roiled by Wave of Job Cuts
The American Jewish Congress, once a leading voice of grass-roots liberal activism, has experienced a wave of drastic personnel cuts, downsizing of key domestic programs, regional office closings, and the departure of the organization’s president and half its board. Leaders of the 88-year-old organization portray the developments as part of a well-designed plan to create…
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News Democratic Senator Slams Iraq Study Group’s Report
Just days before its publication, the much-anticipated report of the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton commission on Iraq came under attack Monday from the Democrats’ top foreign-policy voice, Senator Joseph Biden, in an address to a Jewish group in New York. Biden, incoming chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the Baker-Hamilton report, parts of which…
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News Soccer Fans’ Brawl Jolts French Jews
A deadly incident rife with racial and political overtones has roiled France for the past week and heightened a sense of siege among the country’s 600,000-strong Jewish community. On November 23, a fan of the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team was shot and killed and another fan was seriously wounded by a plainclothes police officer who…
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News U.S. Groups To Host Rightist Minister With Anti-Arab Plan
In a further indication of his acceptance into the political mainstream, controversial right-wing Israeli politician and newly minted government minister Avigdor Lieberman will be hosted next month in New York by the most influential umbrella organization of American Jewish groups. The leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, Lieberman is best known for his…
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