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September 28, 2011, 2011| 22 Elul 5771 Vol. 7, Iss. 35
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NETANYAHU DELIVERS
Alan Dershowitz Addresses StandWithUs Rally at UN
IMPASSIONED SPEECH AT UN
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Faith Restored: Jewish Community Takes Heart as Prominent NJ Rabbi Exonerated in Scandal
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NYPD ready to “shoot planes out of the sky” Rabbi Edmond Nahum
By JV Staff decision has been handed down in the case of Rabbi Edmond Nahum last Thursday, the latest trial stemming from a corruption probe that has snagged dozens of New York and New Jersey residents—including dozens of politicians and five rabbanim. Rabbi Nahum was on trial for his alleged involvement with the now infamous “CW” informant Solomon Dwek. As part of the plea in which Rabbi Nahum was described as a minimal participant, the U.S. Attorney’s office agreed to a non-custodial sentence. Rabbi Nahum pleaded guilty to transferring money without a license. Judge Pisano imposed the lowest sentence — just one year of probation, waiving any additional fines. A personal confidant of Rabbi Nahum was present at the sentencing, and described the experience to our reporters. In the court room sat nearly two dozen lay leaders from New York and New Jersey’s Jewish community. “No one moved, and the room was absolutely silent.
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By Tzvi Allen Fishman
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Uman Visitors Not Welcome This Year
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n a very passionate speech to the UN General Assembly on Friday, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel is willing to negotiate with the PLO in any place and at any time to find a solution to their requests for an autonomous Palestinian State. He invited Mahmoud Abbas to come to Jerusalem or, alternatively, he offered to come to Ramallah to start talking dugri, an Arabic term meaning “sincerely” or “straightforwardly.” He then declared that he would even be willing to meet Abbas while the two of them are in New York to jumpstart negotiations. His speech, albeit scheduled many months earlier, became a direct response to the speech delivered by PLO President Mahmoud Abbas less than an hour earlier. Abbas, as was expected, handed over to the UN General Assembly a written request for
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recognition of a Palestinian State. Abbas’ speech showed little change in the PLO attitude of wanting all of Israel. Abbas stated “we agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine - on all the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967.” Abbas further stated that Israel was a colonial apartheid country that stole Palestinian land on the most tragic day in Palestinian history (i.e. Israel Independence Day) in 1948. Abbas continued his tirade against Israel and stated that Israel’s expansion of its settlements, thereby encroaching upon Palestinian land, created a “de facto new border.” He reiterated that the new Palestinian state will include all of the West Bank Israeli settlements and that the capital of Palestine will be “Al-Quds,” the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In an earlier speech, Abbas expressed the true
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