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Monday, March 13, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Rabbis call for Sudan action
More than 150 rabbis gathered outside United Nations headquarters in New York to urge international action in the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
The rabbis who protested Monday, representing the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements, urged the international community to intervene to halt the deaths of Sudanese who fled government-sponsored Arab militias that have killed tens of thousands of people over the past few years.
In front of a Holocaust memorial, speakers drew comparisons between atrocities in Sudan and Jewish suffering during World War II.
“We know what it means to be victims of those who want to wipe another people off the face of the earth,” said Rabbi Robert Levine, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis. “It was only two generations ago when we looked around and wondered, where was everyone?”
The program also featured a briefing on the topic by John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at the offices of the Anti-Defamation League.
Americans enter Holocaust cartoon contest
Six Americans reportedly have entered an Iranian newspaper’s Holocaust cartoon contest.
One cartoon shows an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at a Palestinian’s head with the words,
“What has Ariel Sharon learned from the Holocaust?”
Mike Flugennock, the cartoon’s creator, sent an e-mail to The Associated Press denying that the cartoon is anti-Semitic. “It specifically addresses policies of the Israeli state with regard to its behavior in Palestine, and their similarities to the strategies employed by the Nazi regime in Warsaw and elsewhere,” he wrote. The Iranian newspaper launched the contest after some Western newspapers printed controversial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
European socialists open on Hamas
Leaders of European socialist parties said Europe should be open to talks with a Palestinian government led by Hamas.
The leaders, meeting in Prague on Sunday, agreed that the European Union should play the role of a “peace protector” in the Middle East, said former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who chairs the European Socialist Party. Official European Union policy is to oppose talks with a Hamas-led government unless it renounces terrorism and recognizes the State of Israel.
In a related story, E.U. foreign ministers said a Hamas-led government would face financial collapse unless it meets the conditions laid out by the European Union.
Students deliver Torah to Israel
U.S. high school students helped deliver a Torah written in Poland to Israel’s Border Police.
Students at the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School raised more than $6,000 to refurbish the Torah, which survived the Holocaust and then was at a Baltimore-area synagogue for decades, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The students will receive shooting lessons from the police while in Israel.
Israeli, U.S. labor leaders sign pact
Labor leaders in Boston and Haifa hailed an agreement promoting stronger ties between union members in the sister cities.
The agreement — the first between an Israeli and a U.S. city — was signed by Rich Rogers, executive secretary-treasurer of the Greater Boston Labor Council, and Baruch Zalts, chairman of the Histadrut-Haifa Labor Council. The pact calls for information sharing and an exchange of delegates to advance the welfare of workers and promote the right to organize unions.
The first-ever Boston labor delegation will visit Haifa next summer, said David Borrus, an organizer for the carpenters union and co-chair of Boston’s Jewish Labor Committee.
He anticipates that Haifa unionists will be hosted in Boston the following year.
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