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Friday, April 28, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Navy charges evangelical chaplain
The U.S. Navy filed disciplinary charges against a chaplain who has complained of not being able to evangelize.
The lowest disciplinary charges have been referred against Lt. Gordon Klingenschmidt for allegedly refusing orders not to protest in uniform against Navy regulations that bar proselytizing. Jewish groups have led the effort to limit proselytizing in the armed forces. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who has led such efforts in Congress, was informed of the charges Friday.
Brandeis award to Kushner criticized
The Zionist Organization of America criticized Brandeis University for giving playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate. Kushner, who is Jewish, is a strident critic of Israel and Zionism.
ZOA President Morton Klein called Kushner a “hostile critic of Israel” and asked the university to rescind the honor “as a matter of principle.” “This guy is the Noam Chomsky of the playwriting world,” Klein said. A Brandeis spokesman said the university had no comment, and Kushner could not be reached.
Kushner recently wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” which some Jewish commentators felt drew moral equivalence between Palestinian terrorists and the Israeli anti-terrorist hit squad that tracked them down.
U.N.: Israel ignores migrant queries
Israel allegedly is one of six nations ignoring U.N. inquiries on migrant workers.
Jorge Bustamante, the U.N. official who tracks the rights of migrant workers, said Israel never responds to his requests for information, Ha’aretz reported Friday. Bustamante says he has made eight separate queries since 2002. One had to do with allegations that Israel only shelters foreign prostitutes who agree to testify against their slavers and turns away those who refuse, fearing for their lives; other queries have to do with the alleged neglect of foreign workers injured on the job.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it transfers U.N. requests to the relevant ministries.
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