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April 6, 2011

Goldstone says he will not retract report

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

South African Judge Richard Goldstone said he will not seek to quash his report to the United Nations on Israel\’s conduct during the Gaza war, despite his retraction of a key finding. Goldstone told the Associated Press that reports that he told Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai that he would seek to quash the report prepared at the behest of the U.N. Human Rights Council are false. The report presented to the council in September 2009 accused Israel of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

J Street staffers announce departure

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

Two J Street staff members who have been with the organization since its inception three years ago have resigned their positions for new opportunities, the organization announced. Issac Luria, the vice president of new media and communications, and press secretary Amy Spitalnick are leaving the the liberal pro-Israel lobby, the organization\’s president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, announced Wednesday.

Australian lawmaker Danby slams Greens over Israel boycott

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

Australian Jewish lawmaker Michael Danby slammed the Greens Party for \”promoting extreme and dangerous policies\” over its controversial support of an Israel boycott. Writing in The Australian newspaper of April 2, Danby of the governing Labor Party condemned Greens leader Bob Brown for allowing a \”watermelon faction\” — green on the outside but red on the inside — to wade into foreign policy.

Europe remembers how Eichmann trial and TV changed perceptions of Holocaust

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

The face, with its twisted mouth, receding hairline and dark-framed glasses, is familiar around the world today. But 50 years ago, when Adolf Eichmann — former head of the Nazi Department for Jewish Affairs — first sat in a Jerusalem courtroom to face war crimes charges, his visage was known to very few.

Philanthropist Ann Loeb Bronfman dies

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

Philanthropist Ann Loeb Bronfman, who supported a range of causes through the foundation that she founded and ran, has died. Bronfman died Tuesday from complications from emphysema at a hospital in Washington, D.C., surrounded by her five children. She was 78.

Jewish groups condemn U.S. House’s 2012 budget proposal

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

Jewish groups and a key Jewish lawmaker condemned the U.S. House of Representative\’s budget proposal for 2012, saying it will hurt the Americans most in need. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs said in a statement released Wednesday that the Republican-backed budget proposal unveiled the previous day, which slashes nearly $6 trillion from federal spending over the next 10 years, \”relies on cuts which will be harmful to many of those in America who are most in need.\”

Supreme Court upholds state tuition tax credit program

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to an Arizona tuition tax credit program that benefits parochial schools, with all three Jewish justices dissenting. The court on Monday threw out a lawsuit against the program, which provides tax credits to those who donate to \”school tuition organizations\” that grant scholarships to private schools, including religious schools.\n

Peres to ask UN chief to cancel Goldstone Report, sources say

Jewish Journal April 6, 2011

President Shimon Peres will ask United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to nullify Judge Richard Goldstone\’s damning report on the Gaza war in light of the author\’s expression of regret regarding some of his claims, sources told Haaretz on Wednesday.

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