Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Pakistan To Accept Aid From Israel
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called a top American Jewish communal leader this week to say that earthquake-torn Pakistan would accept emergency assistance from Israel. The call from Musharraf to Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress – Council for World Jewry, came Tuesday, just two days after Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told the…
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News Israel Miffed Over Lingering China Flap
Israeli officials are becoming more and more irritated –– despite repeated concessions and a formal agreement between Washington and Jerusalem –– by their inability to end their dispute with the Bush administration over Israeli arms sales to China, a top Israeli political figure told the Forward this week. “There was a series of mistakes, but…
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News Bush Is Seen To Back Iran On Charges In ’94 Attack
At a time when Iran’s nuclear program is a top American priority, the Bush administration appears to have backed Tehran in a fight over the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Argentina. According to Argentine Jewish leaders and media reports, the United States sided with Iran last week in a secret vote to…
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News As U.N. Meets, the Diplomatic Dance Card is Full Across Town
Newt and the UN Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, onetime leader of the Republican Party’s bomb-throwing conservative wing, has become a staunchly moderate advocate of United Nations reform. Unlike his more fire-breathing party colleagues — such as Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, who wants Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal…
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News Group’s Staffer Indicted on Count Of Embezzlement
A grand jury in New York has indicted a longtime employee of one of the country’s most storied and influential Jewish organizations for diverting at least $1 million from the company, the Forward has learned. The employee, Donalde Fergus, worked in financial department of the American Jewish Committee. He was indicted August 24 for grand…
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News U.N. Congo Force Modeling Shift in Peacekeeping
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo —When the bulky white United Nations trucks rumble into this dusty, hardscrabble town on the border with Rwanda, cars, motorcycles and bicycles move aside. Passersby gently wave at the peacekeepers — Pakistani soldiers with U.N. blue helmets — on board. It is a stark change from several months ago, when…
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News China Crisis Straining U.S.-Israel Ties
In what is turning out to be a rare, protracted crisis between close allies, Israel and the United States remained sharply at odds this week over the sensitive issue of Israeli arms sales to China. In interviews with the Forward, Israeli officials confirmed reports that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had canceled a planned trip to…
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News U.S., Israel Backtrack on Iran’s Nukes
After years of dire warnings about Iran’s impending nuclear threat, Israeli and American officials abruptly backtracked this week, injecting a new level of uncertainty into delicate negotiations between European countries and Tehran. The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that Israel had reviewed its assessment of Iran’s nuclear progress and now believes that Iran will have a…
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