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Jewish community advocates expect another difficult year in Olympia Jewish community advocates expect another difficult year in Olympia By Donna Gordon Blankinship Transcript Editor Tax reform — read: raising taxes — may be the only way out of the state’s perpetual budget struggle, both advocates of the Jewish community in Olympia are saying as the Legislature prepares to get back to work on Monday. "It’s time to think about how to increase revenues instead of pitting all of the vulnerable programs against each other," said Sherry Appleton, lobbyist for the Coalition for a Jewish Voice. Although her Jewish Federation partner, ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at a local shopping mall was meant to be a pleasant community celebration of diversity. Instead, the plan has unleashed a religious conflict that dates back thousands of years. Several local Jews and Jewish groups are upset that the city of Bellevue invited Newcastle-based Beit Tikvah Messianic Congregation to perform Israeli and Jewish songs and dances at the city-sponsored celebration tomorrow at Crossroads Shopping Center. They contend that since Beit Tikvah is the only group performing exclusively Jewish and Israeli pieces, that the audience will see it as representing the Jewish community, ...

December 16, 2001               Followers of Kahane Are Subjects of Inquiry               By DEAN E. MURPHY                   The arrests in Los Angeles last week of                   two members of the Jewish Defense               League charged in a bombing plot came as               federal authorities pursued a separate               terrorism-related investigation into the               activities of some followers of the late Rabbi               Meir David Kahane in Brooklyn.               In announcing the charges against the two               members, Irving David Rubin and Earl               Leslie Krugel, federal officials in Los               Angeles said the case should put to rest               complaints ...

<p>"It was a suicide bomber," said Jerusalem police chief Micky Levy. "He crossed the street from one side to another. ... He detonated the explosives that were strapped to his body."</p> <p>The attack followed a day of Israeli bomb and missile strikes aimed at pressuring Yasser Arafat to move against Palestinian militants.</p>

Tyranny Of Tolerance Yarden Weidenfeld Special to the Jewish Times AUGUST 31, 2001 This summer Toward Tradition, the conservative coalition of Jews and Christians of which I'm executive director, took out an ad on the New York Times' op-ed page. Under the title "Terrorized by 'Tolerance,' " it pointed out that the word "tolerance" has been gravely abused. Tolerance used to mean getting along with people you may not respect, but now it refers to a culture-wide rule against saying that anything is right or wrong. The ad provoked many positive responses and some harshly negative ones. Among our detractors, ...

PRESS RELEASE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Contact: Bonnie Taub, 206-236-3046 TERRORIZED BY “TOLERANCE”: TOWARD TRADITION PLANS DEFENSE OF FREE THOUGHT MERCER ISLAND, WA., June 13, 2001 … Toward Tradition, a national coalition of Jews and Christians, is planning a two-pronged assault on the new, redefined value called “tolerance.” The group has purchased an advertisement space on the New York Times op-ed page, which will appear Friday, June 29, under the headline “Terrorized by ‘Tolerance.’” The ad’s text will be unveiled at a speech by Toward Tradition’s president, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, on Sunday, June 24, in Los Angeles at UCLA’s Ackerman Union. Ad and ...

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