Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Group’s Pact With Putin Friends Raises Eyebrows
The American Jewish Congress, a group known for its historic role at the cutting edge of liberal Jewish activism, signed a strategic agreement this week with a Russian Jewish organization that has close ties to the Kremlin and that is dominated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The agreement, pledging to fight “religious and ethnic bigotry,”…
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News Bush Mum After Saudis’ Antisemitic Comments
Democrats are slamming President Bush for failing to condemn antisemitic remarks made during a high-level counterterrorism conference in Saudi Arabia that was attended by his top homeland security adviser. At the conference, a Saudi poet recited a poem in which he condemned Osama bin Laden before declaring that the Al Qaeda chief “was sent by…
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News French, American Communal Aides in New Spat
In the latest incarnation of trans-Atlantic Jewish tensions, the leader of the French Jewish umbrella organization is blasting a rich Californian philanthropist for accusing European Jewish groups of offering only a tepid response to antisemitism. The fight centers on a letter that Newton Becker, a Los Angeles-based supporter of several pro-Israeli organizations and initiatives, wrote…
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News Murder Fuels Rumors of Egyptian Involvement
The gruesome murder of a Coptic Egyptian family in New Jersey last month has fueled a whirlwind of accusations, with some hawkish commentators blaming Islamist radicals and some locals seeing the Egyptian government’s hand. Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife and their two daughters were found bound and gagged at their home in Jersey City on…
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News Arab Bank of Jordan To Close American Branch
Under pressure from American regulators and three lawsuits brought by families of American and Israeli victims for its alleged role in financing Palestinian terrorism, the Arab Bank of Jordan has decided it will “gradually” close its sole American branch. The closure was announced in a statement released Tuesday by the Central Bank of Jordan, which…
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News French Shoah Case May Get New Push
Representatives of about 600 Holocaust survivors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their complaint accusing France’s national railroad company of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by knowingly deporting tens of thousands of Jews. The five-year-old case, Abrams v. Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais, is…
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News Cheney Ratchets Up the Pressure on Iran Over Nukes
In a week rife with speculation about America’s plans to attack Iran, Vice President Richard Cheney stepped up the pressure on Tehran by declaring that Israel might strike Iran’s nuclear facilities if ongoing diplomatic efforts fail. In response to a question by radio talk-show host Don Imus about the possibility of Israeli action, Cheney said,…
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News CIA-Linked Study Warns Of Bio-Terrorist Attacks During the Next 15 Years
WASHINGTON — A CIA-affiliated think tank is predicting that America is “likely” to be hit by bio-terrorist attacks at some point in the next 15 years. According to two recently released reports from respected think tanks, the country is still unprepared for strikes involving biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox. Taken together, the think…
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