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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) The Palestinian president is moving forward with his plan to seek upgraded observer status at the United Nations next month, despite American and Israeli threats of financial or diplomatic retaliation, officials said Sunday.
The decision sets the stage for a new showdown between Israel and the Palestinians at the world body, following last year's attempt by the Palestinians to seek status as a full member state. Although that initiative failed to pass the U.N. Security Council, it caused months of diplomatic tensions with Israel.
"We will go to the U.N. regardless of any threats," said Tawfik Tirawi, a senior member of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. "I expect the Israelis to take punitive measures against us, if we win this status, but this is our choice and we will not retract it."
This year, the Palestinians are seeking "nonmember state" status in the U.N. General Assembly, where passage is assured. The 193-member assembly is dominated by developing nations sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Officials say they are looking for what they call a "quality" majority that includes European countries as well, though Germany and Britain, for instance, have been cool to the Palestinian plan.
While upgraded status would not change the situation on the ground, the Palestinians say the move is still significant. They will ask for international recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
They believe the U.N. vote would then require Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines or face international legal action. Israel rejects a full return to those lines, and says the borders between Israel and a future Palestine must be reached through direct negotiations.
The Palestinians also hope to use upgraded status to join additional U.N. bodies, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could attempt to prosecute Israel on war crimes violations. The Palestinians last year received membership into UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency. Over Israeli objections, they subsequently won recognition of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem as an endangered heritage site.
A Palestinian official said Abbas is expected to formally put his request to the General Assembly on Nov. 15 or Nov. 29.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal decision has been made.
Both dates are symbolic. The 15th is the anniversary of the 1988 Palestinian declaration of independence. The 29th is the anniversary of the 1947 U.N. decision to partition of what was then British-ruled Palestine into Israeli and Arab territories. Jewish leaders agreed, but Arabs rejected the plan, war erupted, and the Palestinians remain without a state. The U.N. now observes Nov. 29 as its annual day of solidarity with the Palestinians.
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Posted By simmons on October 27, 2012
Egypt prayer for destruction of Israel HAIFA, Israel -- The new tone coming out of Egypt - punctuated by President Mohammed Morsi mouthing "Amen" to an Imam #39;s call for the destruction of Israel - is rattling residents of the Jewish state, who claim the Obama administration isn #39;t taking the ratcheted-up rhetoric seriously. Lip reading by the Anti Defamation League and the Middle East Media Research Institute confirmed Morsi #39;s approval of a prayer delivered by influential Imam Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour last Friday, in which he stated, "Oh Allah ...
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Posted By richards on October 26, 2012
Local Heroes Program culminates with 15th Annual Awards celebration.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2012
The 2012 Local Heroes honorees are: Shirlee Smith and Dr. Samella Lewis (Black History Month); Bea Cohen and Billie P. Weiss (Womens History Month); Stewart Kwoh and Bill Yoshiyuki Watanabe (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month); Abner D. and Roslyn Goldstine and Annette Shapiro (Jewish American Heritage Month); Ivy Bottini and Steven Michael Llanusa (LGBT Pride Month); Joel G. Leal and Carlos H. Vaquerno (Hispanic Heritage Month).
We are excited to celebrate the 2012 Local Heroes honorees who bring leadership, dedication and creativity to their work and communities, said Union Bank Senior Executive Vice President Pierre Habis, head of Community Banking. We are proud of our expanded partnership with KCET and look forward to celebrating the achievements of many more heroes as part of our
15-year tradition in Los Angeles.
KCET joins Union Bank as we recognize thirteen incredible individuals for their remarkable achievements in their respective communities, said KCET President and CEO Al Jerome. We are pleased to introduce them to our viewers through the video profiles currently airing on KCET and we are delighted to announce that the Local Heroes Awards will be broadcast for the first time next month on our station.
The 2012 Local Heroes honorees are:
Black History Month
Shirlee Smith is the president and CEO of Talk About Parenting with Shirlee Smith, Inc. The Pasadena-based nonprofit organization specializes in parenting issues. Smith provides parenting workshops including sessions for mothers who are for incarcerated, is a popular public speaker, writes an award-winning newspaper column and is host of the cable television show, Talk About Parenting LIVE" with Shirlee Smith. She is the author of Theyre Your Kids Not Your Friends, and the Spanish version, Son tus Hijos, no tus Amigos. Smith received the 2006 Angel in Adoption Congressional Award and was recently named chair of the Pacific Clinics Family Programs advisory board. She is a graduate of UCLA.
Dr. Samella Lewis is professor emeritus of art history at Scripps College of The Claremont Colleges, where she became the first tenured African American professor in art history and has worked for more than 40 years. Named a Distinguished Scholar by the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, she founded the Los Angeles Museum of African American Art in 1976 and was its curator until 1986. She also founded and edited landmark publications that helped increase recognition of African American art and artists, including The International Review of African American Art. Dr. Lewis earned her doctorate degrees in art and art history from Ohio State University.
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Posted By richards on October 25, 2012
Liberal Jewish groups and womens organizations nationwide and in Israel are protesting last weeks arrest of Anat Hoffman at Jerusalems Western Wall.
Hoffman, chair of Women of the Wall and a longtime activist for womens rights in Israel, was arrested while she was leading a womens prayer service in violation of Israeli law.
While it was not the first time Israeli police have stepped in to stop her praying at the Wall, it was the first time she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she claims she was forced to strip naked and dragged across the floor.
In the United States, the Union for Reform Judaism called for a police investigation and expressed its dismay to Michael Oren, Israels ambassador in Washington, as did Conservative leaders. Oren released a statement
Israeli police arrest Anat Hoffman at Western Wall on Oct. 16. photo/jta-women of the wall
On Oct. 22, the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism spearheaded a global Shema flash mob a nod to the prayer Hoffman was reciting when she was arrested. People gathered at congregations nationwide to say the prayer at the same time (10 a.m. Pacific time). Many posted videos of themselves saying the Shema on the USCJs Facebook page, including a group at Congregation Beth David in Saratoga.
At Congregation Etz Chaim, an independent liberal congregation in Palo Alto, executive director Ellen Bob says 10 women showed up Monday morning, while others who had to be at work told her they would pause at
10 a.m. to recite the prayer. It was surprisingly moving, Bob said. I wanted to do it out of a deep sense of solidarity, but I didnt expect to get goose bumps.
In Israel, the Israel Religious Action Center, which Hoffman leads, launched a petition to the Supreme Court requesting that the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which runs the holy site also known as the Kotel, change its decision-making process to include non-Orthodox Jews.
There is no voice around that table for women, for the paratroopers who liberated the Wall, for the variety of pluralist voices, said Hoffman. We want to dismantle this body. If the Wall belongs to the Jewish people, where are the Reform, Conservative, secular?
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Posted By richards on October 25, 2012
RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinian leaders plan to shake up the 19-year-old peace process and proceed with a United Nations statehood bid next month over U.S. objections, chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said.
"It's a moment of truth," Erakat said in an interview at his West Bank office in Ramallah. "We're determined to change the status quo."
The move to upgrade the Palestine Liberation Organization's status to that of a "non-member state" in the UN General Assembly comes a year after the failed effort to obtain full membership through the Security Council, a step the Obama administration blocked.
By forcing the statehood issue Palestinians risk jeopardizing international aid that accounts for about 14 percent of gross domestic product and inviting retaliatory measures from Israel, which captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 Middle East war.
"We are ready to go directly back to the negotiations once we return from the UN," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Ramallah Wednesday.
The Palestinian bid to upgrade its observer status at the UN is likely to pass the General Assembly, where the United States has no veto as it does in the Security Council, Erakat said.
If the vote succeeds, "Palestine will become a nation under occupation," Erakat said. "The moment we get this, every single thing Israel does in east Jerusalem or the West Bank will become null and void."
The Palestinian cause has fallen into relative obscurity since formal peace talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government were frozen two years ago. There was only one mention of Palestinians during Monday's U.S. presidential debate on foreign policy.
Peace talks stumbled over the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Abbas said he would not return to negotiations unless Israel froze all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Netanyahu has refused to renew a 10-month freeze on construction that expired in 2010, and this week said Israel considered all of Jerusalem its "eternal capital." The two sides first started direct peace negotiations with the Oslo Accords that were signed at the White House in 1993.
More than 327,000 Jewish Israelis live in 121 fortified West Bank settlements and other scattered outposts amid some 2.6 million Palestinians, according to 2010 census data. Another 193,000 Jews live in east Jerusalem, most in separate areas from the 281,000 Palestinians, according to 2010 data compiled by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.
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Posted By richards on October 25, 2012
At 10:59 p.m. on Oct. 10, Greg Rosenbaum received the official news that he would no longer be the chief executive officer of Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc., a company based in Mifflintown, Pa., that went from near collapse to prosperity and expansion just a year after his arrival in 2006.
Rosenbaum, who received notification that he had been ousted via letter and voice mail, described the circumstances leading up to his rem-oval as a disagreement between himself and the partners of Empire Kosher on the strategy and direction for the company.
Rosenbaum explained that he did see this coming in the recent weeks.
The disagreement began after the partners vetoed a complicated acq-uisition that he had been working on since early May.
I spent a huge chunk of my time negotiating this deal that would have increased business by 40 percent, its not a small thing to disagree about, he said. The tension between the partners and me was not an issue we would have been able to put behind us.
The alleged deal in question was the acquisition of MVP Kosher Foods, the second-largest supplier of kosher poultry in the United States, based in Birdsboro, Pa.
Key principal of MVP Kosher, Mark Honigsfeld, said that he app-roached Rosenbaum this past May in hopes of working out a transaction between the two companies.
When Greg and I met, there seemed to be tremendous synergism, and it made a lot of sense to proceed on some sort of acquisition merger and joint venture, said Honigsfeld, who now runs what is left of MVP Kosher from his Long Island home.
After that initial meeting, Honigsfeld alleges that negotiations began, with both boards of directors at MVP Kosher and Empire Kosher involved every step of the way. He explained that as part of the acquisition, MVP Kosher would turn over its farming relationships, inventories, birds and customers and would close down its Birdsboro plant the second week of July.
On Friday, Oct. 12, Honigsfeld said he was informed that Rosenbaum was no longer working for Empire Kosher and that, in fact, the acquisition would not be happening.
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Posted By simmons on October 24, 2012
Abraham Reiss, Jewish women discuss Nora Ephron #39;s legacy http://www.abrahamreiss.com http http://www.abrahamreiss.name http twitter.com http://www.abrahamreiss.org http Abraham Reiss #39;s international bestseller, Fomenting Change-which outlined an actionable, 23-step process for implementing successful transformations-became the change bible for managers in industry. On this episode of THE SALON, Jewish women discuss Nora Ephron #39;s legacy, the UJA Federation of NY #39;s recent Jewish community study, The Atlantic article arguing that women can #39;t have it all, and Jewish wedding trends for summer
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