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Sundown: The Pope’s Jew

Plus, understanding through translation, the war on lox, and more
By Marc Tracy | 5:04 PM Mar 8, 2010

• A Jewish papal knight has become a loud voice within the Catholic Church opposing Holocaust-era pontiff Pius XII’s sainthood. [NYT]
• A small group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis declared lox to be unkosher due to a certain parasite that salmon can host. Most rabbis disagree, though, so stick that on your bagel and eat it. [Grub ...

Sundown: Hamas Does Damage Control

Plus an allegedly anti-Semitic Chicago conference, and more
By Marc Tracy | 5:00 PM Jan 12, 2010

• After last week’s tension in Gaza—rockets fired into Israel, a fatal skirmish at the Egyptian border—Hamas asked Gazans to observe a ceasefire. [Haaretz]
• The head of the American Israeli Action Committee demanded the resignation of Hannah Rosenthal, Obama’s anti-Semitism envoy, and said J Street, which she used to advise, “fool[s] around with the lives ...

State Dept. Supports Embattled Anti-Semitism Envoy

Rosenthal had stirred pot with comment on Oren and J Street
By Marc Tracy | 4:00 PM Jan 4, 2010

The U.S. State Department is standing behind its anti-Semitism envoy, Hannah Rosenthal. She told Haaretz last month that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s choice not to speak to J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization she used to advise, was “most unfortunate.” The comment prompted a minor tempest: prominent figures in the American-Jewish community questioned her fitness; ...

Today’s News: Further On Up The Road

Plus a $200M fraud hits Lakewood, a maybe-march into Gaza, and more
By Marc Tracy | 12:00 PM Dec 30, 2009

• The Israeli Supreme Court ordered a West Bank highway to be opened to most Palestinian drivers. [NYT]
• A Lakewood, New Jersey, Orthodox man is the target of a $200 million fraud lawsuit, according to court papers. The plaintiffs are several Orthodox real estate investors who allege they were specifically targeted as part of an ...

Administration Rebukes Its Anti-Semitism Envoy

Rosenthal, former J Street advisor, tell us she’s still packing for D.C.
By Allison Hoffman | 3:02 PM Dec 28, 2009

Is Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s new anti-Semitism czar, doomed to become the next Van Jones—an administration official whose impolitic comments force her departure? Last week, she told Haaretz that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent criticism of the progressive Israel lobbying group J Street was “most unfortunate.” The remarks prompted several Jewish leaders to complain; ...

High Noon: Bibi Starts Building in East Jerusalem

Plus hot water for Obama envoy, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 12:00 PM Dec 28, 2009

• Israel announced plans to build 700 new homes in East Jerusalem. The move was condemned by Palestinian negotitor Saeb Erekat as well as a U.S. diplomat. [AP/WSJ]
• Alan Solow, a major figure in the Jewish-American organizational world, criticized Obama administration anti-Semitism envoy Hannah Rosenthal for her comments chastising Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren and defending ...

U.S. Anti-Semitism Envoy Attacks Ambassador Oren

A former J Street adviser, she defends the group
By Marc Tracy | 2:00 PM Dec 24, 2009

“Most unfortunate” was how a U.S. administration official characterized the Israeli Ambassador to the United States’s disparaging comments about the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street political organization. Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, told Haaretz that Ambassador Michael Oren “would have learned a lot” from participating in J Street’s conference, ...

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The Anti-Anti-Semite

Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's new anti-Semitism envoy, discusses her plans, Israel, and Abe Foxman
By Allison Hoffman | 3:06 PM Nov 20, 2009

Hannah Rosenthal, the former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, will start work Monday as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The position was created by Congress in 2004. Rosenthal, the 58-year-old daughter of a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, is a former seminarian—in the 1970s, she dropped out ...

White House to Name Anti-Semitism Envoy Today

J Street member Hannah Rosenthal to fill post
By Allison Hoffman | 11:15 AM Nov 20, 2009

The White House is expected to formally announce today the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal, the 58-year-old former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and a member of J Street’s advisory council, as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, an ambassador-at-large position that falls under State’s human-rights portfolio. The position, ...