International

LGBT community to investigate workplace and hiring practices of 300 Jewish organizations

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced Monday that it will begin an effort to investigate the existing workplace policies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees at Jewish non-profit organizations. The work, an expansion of HRC’s workplace equality project, is supported by a generous lead grant from the Charles and Lynn […]

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USA

Special committee formed by Jewish organizations to counter Durban III conference at U.N.

NEW YORK (Press Release)– To address the varied challenges posed by the planned September 2011 commemoration of the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, known as “Durban III,” the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has created a special national committee to be chaired by Robert Sugarman, chairman

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Palestinian attempt at unilateral declaration of independence a blow to peace

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–The following statement was issued Monday by StandWithUs, an Israeli advocacy group: In the fall of 2010, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to resume direct peace negotiations with Israel. Instead, he is actively trying to abandon negotiations altogether. He has asked the international community to immediately recognize an independent Palestinian state with

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Middle East

J Street says ‘Palestinian papers’ prove U.S. should step up Mideast peace efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C — J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement in response to the release of over 1,600 internal documents from the last decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations: How many more signs are needed before the White House recognizes the need for a serious Presidential initiative to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before

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Middle East

Palestinian papers published by Al Jazeera apparently a hoax

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — The “Palestine Papers” hoax is (or, more accurately, should be) turning into the most teachable moment about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in modern history. At least, everyone has reversed what happened: The compromise position was offered by Israel; the Palestinians rejected peace. Are we going to see this story corrected? The “Palestine

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Middle East

Turkel Commission finds Israel acted lawfully in countering ‘Gaza Flotilla’

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s Public Commission for Examining the Naval Incident of 31 May 2010, otherwise known as the Turkel Commission, has published the first part of its report on the May 2010 flotilla raid. It found that the actions of the IDF soldiers were “lawful and pursuant to the rules of international law,” although it alluded

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Middle East

U.N. Secretary General says Holocaust denial is intolerable

NEW YORK (WJC) — At a ceremony in New York’s Park East Synagogue, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the denial of the Shoah was intolerable. Ban attended a ceremony marking the upcoming International Holocaust Memorial Day attended by representatives from countries including Germany, India, Poland, South Korea, Hungary and Italy. Rabbi

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USA

Al Jazeera documents purport to show Palestinian concessions on Jerusalem, West Bank

JERUSALEM (WJC)–During the 2008 peace talks with the Olmert government, Palestinian negotiators were willing to leave most parts of eastern Jerusalem to Israeli control under a final peace deal, according to secret Palestinian documents leaked to the Arab TV channel ‘al-Jazeera’. Minutes detailing the concessions offered came from a meeting in Jerusalem in June 2008

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Middle East

Al Jazeera publishes leaked Palestinian documents on Israel negotiations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM —  Wikileaks is infectious. Al-Jazeera has caught the bug, and released some 1,600 secret Palestinian documents, said to represent Palestinian-Israeli negotiations over more than a decade of on-again off-again talks.   Some of the details suggest far reaching Palestinian concessions, but others indicate that they were not far reaching enough for

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The Labor party, which founded Israel, splinters into irrelevance

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — A pivotal moment in Israeli political history. The Labor Party, the founding political organization of the state, ruler of the country for its first 29 years, and perennial member of government coalitions has splintered like an undercooked felafel, that is, very messily. Defense Minister and Labor party leader Ehud

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