Scotsman
24/09/2006 WHEN Forbes first rated the United States' richest in 1918, there was just one billionaire. Today, and for the first time, the magazine's annual list of the richest 400 Americans is made up solely of billionaires.
Rising star of the list, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who is placed third, boasted astonishing earnings of about $1 million (£530,000) an hour. Comment: From Jewishvegas.com
Jews flock to Las Vegas to get more bang for their buck. From the Jewish Tribal Review:
From Craigslist: Sheldon Adelson: casino mogul, one of four foreigners named by the Jerusalem Post as contributing over $100,000 to the Likud's 1996 election campaign (the other three were Ronald Lauder, Joseph Gutnick, and Irving Moscowitz). Sheldon and Mervyn Adelson are not related. |
Metro Briefs
The Washington Times September 24, 2006 An Israeli man has been released after he was questioned about taking pictures during his drive Friday night through the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore. The man was stopped by state troopers outside of Laurel after he turned around on Powder Mill Road and headed north on Interstate 95 toward Baltimore.
The man told police he took the pictures because there's nothing in Israel like the tunnel, which runs under Baltimore's harbor. The man was in the area to spend the Rosh Hashana holiday with friends. His passport indicates he's been in the United States for about six weeks. A state police spokesman said the man was released after authorities checked out his story. They spoke with the Connecticut owner of the Dodge minivan he was driving. The man was allowed to leave the agency's College Park barracks at about 11:30 p.m. |
Jennifer Siegel | Fri. Sep 22, 2006
Forward More than a half-century ago, when Akiba Hornstein, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi, made his way from New York to the sunny desert of southern Arizona, he found himself, like many Jews in the hinterlands, in need of a name change. Soon, the state had a Gifford Hornstein. When, presumably, that moniker failed to give the desired effect, he tried a more creative combination: Gifford Giffords.
Times have clearly changed. |
Israel Today
07/09/2006 A gala event in Brussels next week will celebrate the creation of a new pro-Israel lobby in Europe, similar to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) operating in the United States.
The organization, "European Friends of Israel," already has 150 members from the European Parliament. The body is backed financially by Jewish businessmen. Lobby members decided to make their activities as a pan-European lobby official and to network Israel supporters among members of the European Parliament and in national parliaments where no such lobby currently exists. The organization also aims to strengthen ties between existing pro-Israel groups across the continent and to help to improve Israel's image in Europe. The opening event will host Knesset members from Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry gave its blessing to the formation of the organization and instructed its European embassies to assist and cooperate with it. Officials in the Foreign Ministry said that it is an important initiative in light of the current relationship between Israel and the European Union. Michel Gur-Ari, head of the organization, said that the lobby intends to help transform Europe into an ally of Israel. |
REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE
Green Left Weekly, September 20, 2006. My Israel Question
By Antony Loewenstein Melbourne University Press, 2006 340 pages, $32.95 Australian Jewish writer and journalist Antony Loewenstein has set the cat among the pigeons with his first book, My Israel Question. Loewenstein has been variously accused of being "a self-hating Jew", who is part of "the pro-Hezbollah cheerleading squad", an ally of deceased Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi and a part of a cluster of "dumb leftist Jews who vilify Israel", while suffering from a "Demidenko-Darville" disorder. His work, according to Zionist detractors, is an "ill-informed rant", a work of "vanity" that should "lie in the tip alongside such other works as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of Zion". |
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