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Play Ball! — Congregation Beth Israel softball team member Allan Carneol mans the plate on opening day of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center/synagogue adult softball league season. Photo : Andrea Waxman.
Anti-Semitism alleged at UWM event
David Horowitz is a controversial American Jewish man. He says so himself.
“I bring a bodyguard” to speaking appearances, he told The Chronicle in a telephone interview last week, “because I’ve been physically attacked on several occasions. There is so much hate directed at me.”
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Jewish chief: Abrahamson muses on the court
Just two days after the April 1 defeat of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler by Burnett County Circuit Judge Michael Gableman, Shirley Abrahamson announced that she will run for re-election when her term expires next year.
Madison synagogue defaced
Swastikas and a message “Die, Jew” were written on Beth Israel Center, Madison’s Conservative synagogue, sometime during the weekend of April 25 through 27.
According to Steven Morrison, executive director of the Madison Jewish Community Council, this was the first incident of anti-Semitic vandalism on a Madison synagogue “in at least 10 years.”
Olmert funding scandal highlights perilous ties to U.S. Jewish money
The apparent involvement of a pulpit rabbi turned businessman in a financial scandal that could fell Israel's prime minister underscores the potentially perilous relationship Israeli politicians have with wealthy American Jewish supporters.
Paying survivors: Do reparations work?
When Glendale resident Rose Chrustowski was 19, she was not studying for an undergraduate degree, working as a camp counselor, or exploring foreign cities. A Polish Jew, she was working in a German slave labor camp.
Police investigating Kenosha Torah theft
Two Torah scrolls were recently stolen from Congregation Bnei Zedek Chabad in Kenosha. The scrolls, which according to congregation president Ron Sanders are at least 60 years old, were discovered missing on Tuesday, April 15 by Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski.
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Methodists reject divestment after Jewish lobbying
Jewish groups have been worried for months that the United Methodist Church at its convention would revive a push for anti-Israel divestment measures.
Disaffected, some religious Zionists turn against Israel
For three-and-a-half months, Tzvia Sariel refused to identify herself in an Israeli court after being arrested for allegedly assaulting Palestinian farmers. Instead, the 18-year-old sat in jail and held firm: She would not cooperate with a judicial system she viewed as illegitimate.
What's behind Kadish arrest? For now, only speculation
Is it connected to the classified-information case against two former AIPAC staffers? A bid to pressure Israel to concede more to the Palestinians ahead of a new round of peace talks? Connected to the murky circumstances of Israel’s mysterious airstrike in Syria last September?
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