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Global News Clinton: Only talks will result in a state Washington (JTA) — Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Palestinian-American audience that the only path to statehood is through direct talks with Israel. The U.S. secretary of state's remarks Wednesday to a gala dinner of the American Task Force on Palestine comes as the Palestinian Authority reportedly is seeking international recognition in case it decides to unilaterally declare statehood. more
Just days before a film about her debuts in movie theaters, “outed” CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson told her spy story to women donors to United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ. Wilson was the keynote speaker at the CHOICES Redux dinner, sponsored by UJC MetroWest’s Women’s Philanthropy. Over 400 women supporters of the UJA Campaign came to the Nov. 1 dinner at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston. more Local News courtesy of |
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UJC opens mailbox for Chile Earthquake Relief Effort
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| "Max"imum Potential — A UJC Blog | |
| Max Kleinman shares his thoughts about what's important to the MetroWest community. | |
| The Problem with Containment — Part II As stated in last week’s blog, more and more policymakers in Washington, D.C. have given up on preventing Iran from going nuclear. Instead, they will rely on a policy of containment, which worked well during the “Cold War.” Unfortunately, any parallel with the Cold War ignores the many dissimilarities between that era and the unique dangers presented by a nuclear-armed Iran. more |
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| From Leslie's Laptop | |
| A blog by Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, UJA Vice Chair, Major Gifts |
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| My Mother-in-Law — My Inspiration as a Jewish Woman Leader In the last few months, I’ve written a little bit about my mother-in-law, Ethel Rosenthal, and I’m sad to report that I must now say my mother-in-law of blessed memory. I wrote about her last in the context of Shavuot and the story of Ruth and Naomi. I was so lucky to have Ethel as my mother-in-law — she was an inspiration to me as a Jewish woman leader, and as a Jewish woman, period. more |
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| In the Trenches | |
| A blog by Scott Krieger, UJA Campaign Chair | |
| Remarks delivered at MetroMagic event, February 4 On September 23rd 2009, the President of Iran addressed the U.N. for 34 minutes. As expected, he began to rail against Israel. Because it was known in advance that he would do that, Israel asked the other 194 member nations to walk out of his speech in protest. You know how many did? Eleven. more |
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| On the Ground in Israel | |
| A personal view of our efforts in Israel from Amir Shacham, UJC MetroWest Director of Israel Operations | |
| Saba Avram I was recently stuck in Europe under a volcano cloud with millions of people and my own older parents. The closed sky caught us in Hungary with all its painful Jewish history, a week after their national elections in which a far right party won much power, a few days after Yom Hashoa (Holocaust remembrance day) and symbolically during Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli memorial and independence days). more |
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