Does the Long Island rabbi at the center of Israel’s investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have some serious skeletons in his closet? New York Magazine has obtained “a transcript of secret tapes” that, it reports, suggests that Rabbi Morris Talansky has threatened business associates in the past.
Israelis may be disgusted by the scandalous allegations swirling around their prime minister, but, on the bright side, the mess is garnering kudos for the Jewish state from some usually hostile quarters. The Jerusalem Post reports: Over the past week, the corruption case against Olmert received wide coverage in the mainstream Arab media, prompting an…
Ha’aretz’s Ari Shavit renders a harsh verdict on the tenure of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Despite Olmert’s “many good qualities,” Shavit writes, the prime minister “has no core. He has no Tablets of Stone. In the most profound sense, he does not know where he came from and where he is going.” And the result,…
It took only three weeks, but finally PM Olmert’s office responded to the Orthodox Union’s letter voicing the group’s concern over talk about dividing Jerusalem. Olmert’s letter promises that the “issue of Jerusalem is currently not under negotiations with the Palestinians” and that in any future settlement, the PM will “strengthen the Jewish character of…
Speaking to this week’s grandiosely named “Conference on the Future of the Jewish People,” convened by the equally grandiosely (and tongue-twistingly) named Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared that he identifies as a Jew first, and an Israeli second. Y-Net reports: “If I was asked today, which I am sometimes,…
With a one-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday. As we covered back in January, the former New York City mayor is duking it out with Arizona Senator John McCain for Jewish donors. Looks like he shouldn’t count on the support of the Jewish Firefighters’ Union.
The Shin Bet has revealed a plot to assassinate Ehud Olmert. The suspect, Mazab Bashir, a 25-year-old Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, works for Doctors Without Borders. The organization may have done nothing wrong. But officials at the group may want to iron out their talking points. According to The Jerusalem Post, Duncan Mclean, head…
The fate of the Middle East, over which recent events in both Gaza and Lebanon cast a foreboding shadow, is dependent on five weak leaders. The nominal world leader, American President George Bush, has reached the nadir of his political standing at home and is very much afraid of the loss of his Republican majority…
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