Three members of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza war say they stand by the report. Calls to retract the Goldstone report disregard the rights of the victims, the international law experts said in a statement published Thursday in the British newspaper the Guardian. \”Aspersions cast on the findings of the report cannot be left unchallenged,\” the statement said.
South African judge Richard Goldstone is being barred from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.
The Anti-Defamation League assisted in the investigation into white supremacists arrested in an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama
Korobkin, the Yavneh spiritual leader, said he was very pleased with the mayor\’s recommendations and that the fault for last year\’s incident lay mainly in the way DBS was structured, as well as a certain lack of sensitivity.
A new report lends muscle to certain aspects of the phenomenon, hinted at by Katznelson: Young Jews\’ desire to be with other young Jews and their interest in creating their own Jewish experiences rather than signing up for long-standing programs.
A recent report by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles found that nearly one in five local Jews, or 104,000 out of 520,000, earns less than $25,000 a year, with 7 percent living beneath the poverty line. Los Angeles\’ high cost of living makes it especially difficult on poor Jews, who often go without health insurance and are reluctant to ask for assistance.
A new study reveals that the Bush administration is succeeding beyond the most optimistic projections of supporters — and the most pessimistic fears of critics — in funneling government social service dollars to religious groups, despite the refusal of Congress to pass most of its faith-based initiative.
Last week the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy issued an exhaustive report indicated that religious groups \”are now involved in government-encouraged activities ranging from building strip malls for economic improvement to promoting child car seats.\”
How many trees does it take to absorb the emissions from your car\’s commute? How much land does it take to feed and raise the beef you eat for dinner? How much space on earth does your trash take up?
The city of Santa Monica has taken up the task of answering those questions in \”Santa Monica\’s Ecological Footprint, 1990-2000,\” released in March. The report measures the amount of land used to produce everyday products and services like electricity, transportation, garbage disposal and housing. That land use is called the ecological footprint, and it can be measured individually or citywide.
The report shows that American intelligence agencies received signals that Al Qaeda was looking to attack Israel or U.S. Jewish sites in the months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
It also shows that several of the hijackers, as well as Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, were motivated in part by hatred of Israel and anger over the support it receives from the United States.
The study that the European Union\’s Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia commissioned was prompted by a wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe that intensified in the spring of 2002. The report was suppressed, allegedly to avoid offending Europe\’s large Muslim communities. The European Jewish Congress obtained a copy of the report and released it Monday.
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