Happy Chanukah From the Jewish Voice December 23, 2011 | 27 Kislev 5772
Vol. 7, Iss. 46
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Standing Strong: Jewish Voice Exclusive Interview With one of the Rising Stars of Israel’s Knesset For Tzipi Hotovely, one of many women serving in the Knesset, the first term as a Likud MK from the bench is not the start of a political career. Apparently quite happy with her position as a lawmaker and a voice among many others, Hotovely is proud of fighting for what she believes in, as she calls it, on “the high political stage.” By Jacob Kornbluh
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n an exclusive one-on-one interview with the Jewish Voice while visiting New York to speak to the Jewish community, the 33-year-old Hotovely – who is fully committed to Orthodox Judaism and
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Netanyahu Snubs New York Times; Declines Request for Op-Ed By Fern Sidman
A Mayor Bloomberg joins Cornell President Skorton and Technion President Lavie to announce historic partnership to build a new applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. December 19, 2011 (PHOTO CREDIT: KRISTEN ARTZ)
ccording to media sources, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a powerful rebuke to the New York Times by declining their request that he pen an op-ed piece for publication therein. Notorious for their consistent maligning of Israel both in their news coverage and their opinion pieces, Prime Minister Netanyahu's senior advisor Ron Dermer said in a sardonic letter to the New York Times that Mr. Netanyahu "respectfully declines" the offer, citing the newspaper's negative spin on the Netanyahu government.
Technion and Cornell Join Together to Build New Applied Sciences Campus in NYC Temporary Off-Site Campus to Open in 2012; First Phase of Fully-Funded Permanent Campus to be Completed by 2017
Israeli MK (Likud) Tzipi Hotovely
calls herself a “religious rightwinger” - acknowledged the fact that she might not be popular on the international stage, yet she says what motivated her to enter politics was her desire to bring “a moral Continued on page 28
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cornell University President David Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie announced on Monday an historic partnership to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The selection of the Cornell/Technion consortium – which pairs two of the world’s top institutions in the fields of science, engineering, technology and research – marks a major milestone in the City’s groundbreaking Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which seeks to increase New York City’s capacity for applied sciences and dramatically transform the City’s economy.
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ornell/Technion’s proposal was among the many strong proposals that were submitted to the City from a number of world-class institutions around the
globe as part of the City’s groundbreaking competitive process. The Cornell/Technion
Making it abundantly clear that Netanyahu's decision was predicated, for the most part, on the fact that 19 out of the paper’s 20 op-ed pieces on Israel since September were negative, Dermer noted ironically that the one positive piece was written by Richard Goldstone, chairman of the UN’s Goldstone Commission Report, in which he rushed to Israel's defense against charges of apartheid by Palestinian sympathizers. Dermer referenced a New York Times op-ed piece from November 22, Continued on page 6
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»Germany Investigates Possible Neo-Nazi Ties to Murder of Israeli Rabbi
»Orthodox Community, Republicans Call for Majority Jewish District in Brooklyn
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»Apple to Set up Development Center in Israel see p. 21