Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News New Chief Rabbi Appointed in France
Gilles Bernheim, the rabbi of Paris’s largest synagogue, defeated incumbent Joseph Sitruk to become France’s new chief rabbi in a hotly contested election decided June 22. Bernheim, a 56-year-old philosopher and proponent of a more modern Orthodoxy, will take over from Sitruk, 63, a popular figure who held the position since 1987. Bernheim garnered a…
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Breaking News Art Journal Pays Israeli Scholar $75K After Libel Lawsuit Threat
Read an updated version of this article here. The publisher of a prominent academic art journal has paid $75,000 and committed to making a public apology to an Israeli scholar who was the subject of a critical review by a controversial Columbia University professor, the Forward has learned. The College Art Association, publisher of Art…
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News Battle for France’s Top Rabbi Post Goes Viral
UPDATE: Rabbi Gilles Bernheim was elected France’s chief rabbi on Sunday. For more, click here. The election of France’s chief rabbi is generally a quiet affair decided by insiders. This year, thanks to the freedoms of the Internet, the campaign has turned into a raucous, innuendo-filled cyber-battle featuring Facebook pages, video postings — some of…
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News Rift in Al Qaeda Raises Specter of Bin Laden Bringing Jihad to Holy Land
A recent flurry of signals from Al Qaeda leaders has fueled concerns among terrorism experts that Al Qaeda could be setting up to launch an attack on Israel. The worries about an impending attack actually grow out of the apparent struggles of the terrorist network, visible in mounting criticism from former members and leading Muslim…
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News Jewish General To Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force
When he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in the early 1970s, Norton Schwartz did not hide his religion under his blue-and-white uniform. A member of the academy’s Jewish choir before graduating in 1973, according to one of his classmates, Schwartz has since risen up the ranks and on…
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News As Battle Over Dead Oligarch’s Fortune Rages, American Lawyer Languishes in a Belarus Jail
The fate of a Soviet-born American lawyer withering away in a Belorussian jail has taken a decidedly bizarre turn in recent weeks. The government of Belarus is pressing new charges against him. The American government, meanwhile, is calling for his immediate release. And to top it all off, in several countries a spate of legal…
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News Ahmadinejad Faces Intra-Party Challenge
With one year to go before Iran’s next presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing an open and increasingly pointed challenge from rivals within his own conservative camp. On June 1, Ahmadinejad’s archrival and likely 2009 opponent, Ali Larijani, was elected to the powerful post of speaker of parliament for one year. Within hours of Larijani’s…
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News President of Cote d’Ivoire Reflects on Israeli Support
When his hold on power was teetering a few years ago, Cote d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo reached out to an unlikely ally: Israel. Once West Africa’s wealthiest country and the world’s leading producer of cocoa, Cote d’Ivoire plunged into a bitter civil war in late 2002 when insurgents, backed by the former colonial power, France,…
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