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Monday, June 05, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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New York parade salutes Israel
Tens of thousands of marchers and top local politicians participated in the Salute to Israel Parade in New York City.
Rally organizers estimated Sunday’s event attracted nearly 100,000 people, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R-N.Y.), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.).
Tovah Feldshuh, an actress known for portraying Golda Meir in the Broadway play “Golda’s Balcony,” was the honorary grand marshal.
The parade, which featured floats, posters and marching bands, marked the 58th anniversary of Israeli independence.
Brangelina baby blessed in West Bank
Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
“Residents of ancient and renewed Shiloh wish the new Shiloh good health and a productive life,” Yisrael Medad, a community official, said in a statement circulated this week.
Shiloh means “peaceful one.”
It was also the biblical site where Joshua first divided up the newly conquered Land of Israel among the 12 tribes descended from the patriarch Jacob.
Today, it is a mostly modern Orthodox community of 1,500.
Israeli professor found guilty of slander
An Israeli court found a Haifa University professor guilty of slandering a fellow Israeli academic.
The court ordered Steven Plaut last Friday to pay $17,000 plus expenses and legal fees.
Plaut, a business professor known for his hawkish views, had called Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev a “Judenrat wannabe” and “fanatic anti-Semite.” Gordon teaches human rights at Ben-Gurion University.
Plaut has been among those campaigning in Israel against left-wing Israeli academics such as Gordon.
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