Orly Halpern
By Orly Halpern
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News Foxman, Wiesel Upbraid Israel For Pace of Peace Effort
Petra, Jordan — Some of Israel’s strongest supporters chastised the country’s leadership this week for failing to take up opportunities to solve the long-standing conflict with neighboring Arab countries. The criticisms were aired Tuesday at the third annual Petra Conference in Jordan, a meeting of Nobel laureates and distinguished figures who brainstorm together to improve…
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News Former Refusenik Renews Push for Democratization
Jerusalem – President Bush and his foreign policy muse, the onetime Soviet Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky, are planning a June rendezvous in Prague, at a conference to promote democratic reforms around the world. Just over two years ago, the newly re-elected Bush was riding a wave of apparent success in his campaign to democratize the…
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News Jerusalem Reels After Scathing War Report
Jerusalem – After the war in Lebanon ended last August, Amnon Nachmias, a reserve paratroop colonel, left his farming village in the North and drove to Jerusalem to join hundreds of other reservists in a protest camp in front of the Supreme Court. Together they demanded that the government appoint a state inquiry into the…
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News Al Jazeera Gathering Draws a Full Minyan To Heart of Arab World
Doha, Qatar – Some participants at the third-annual forum of the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera were sorry they didn’t bring matzo with them — had they known how many fellow Jews were attending the media conference, they would have made a Passover Seder. “We could have used the hotel wine to fill our cups,”…
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News Rumors Abound as Israel Levels Secret Charges Against Arab Pol
Jerusalem – One of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial lawmakers is under investigation in a case that has caused a national uproar and may have driven him from the country — even as the nature of the charges against him remain a state secret. What is publicly known is that Azmi Bishara, the firebrand leader…
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News For Many Palestinians, Right of Return Is Primarily Theoretical
Hussein Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan – With spiky hair propped up by loads of gel, and a goatee with shaved vertical strips, Khaled Jamal would make a hip hair stylist in any Western metropolis. But Jamal, 22, is a Palestinian refugee, born in Amman to a family from Jaffa and Kafr ’Ana. His life centers…
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News Cops Grill Top Olmert Ally On Auschwitz ‘March’ Funds
Jerusalem – Israel’s finance minister, Avraham Hirchson, was interrogated by police for eight hours straight this week about the apparent transfer of more than $1 million to his personal accounts from a labor union he once ran, and of another sum, which is undisclosed, from the March of the Living, the international Holocaust education program…
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News Reform Rabbi Denied Jerusalem Honor
Jerusalem — He had recommendations from Israel’s ambassador to Washington, a former minister of justice, and an ultra-Orthodox leader — but in the end it didn’t help him. For the second time in two years, octogenarian Rabbi Asher “Dick” Hirsch did not receive the honorary title of Ot Yakir Jerusalem, given to residents who have…
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