Monday, September 25, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Presbyterians talked to Ahmadinejad
U.S. Presbyterian leaders met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The meeting took place Sept. 20 in New York.
The leaders of one of the leading U.S. Protestant denominations said they wanted to tell Ahmadinejad of their support for Israel and their opposition to his denial of the Holocaust, Religious News Service reported.
Although the Iranian leader did not agree with everything that was said at the meeting, he “seemed open to hearing what we had to say,” said Sara Lisherness, associate director of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Presbyterian Church replaced a 2004 call for divestment from Israel with a policy of peaceful investment in Israel, the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
McGreevey’s Israeli ‘lover’ denounces book
An Israeli who was James McGreevey’s declared love interest attacked the former New Jersey governor’s memoir.
McGreevey, who stepped down in 2004 after declaring he was gay, published a memoir this month titled “The Confession.”
In it, he details an affair he said he had with Golan Cipel, an Israeli whose appointment to serve as homeland security adviser in New Jersey raised eyebrows.
But Cipel, who says he is straight and suffered sexual harassment by McGreevey, issued a statement attacking the book as a “pack of lies.” Cipel said: “I strongly hope that the gay community rejects this obvious and shameless ploy from a man who has engaged in acts of deception, sexual violence and intimidation.”
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