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IDF’s Chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, addressing the dinner participants.
Photo: Shahar Azran
If one had to choose just one major gala to attend, the hands down best of show would be the FIDF Gala. These "Friends" raised over $26 million in one night when over 1,300 prominent business and philanthropic leaders from across the country gathered at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the FIDF National NY Gala Dinner, demonstrating their love and support for the soldiers of Israel.
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Passover is a holiday steeped in tradition. The American Jewish Committee has a tradition as well. Every other year they organize a Diplomats Seder which brings together members of NY's diplomatic and Jewish communities to celebrate, reflect and discuss the universal story of freedom and redemption - a story that connects people of all nationalities, religions and ethnicities.
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Hundreds of Muslim worshipers, incited by a rumor that the Al-Aqsa mosque was under threat, recently hurled rocks down from Jerusalem's Temple Mount on the Jews praying below at the Western Wall. Several Israeli policemen were injured quelling the violence. Although such incidents are nothing new, that one was the opening salvo in a larger campaign to inflame the Arab and Muslim worlds about the future of Jerusalem and force the issue onto the agenda of the international community.
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"This evening is a tribute to the Jewish people of Salonika," said Archbishop Demetrious during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day of Greek Jewry ceremony recently. He recounted the 2300 year history of Jewish people from the time of Alexander the Great through World War II, when 50,000 of the 300,000 residents of Salonika were Jewish, to today when there are about 1500 Jews.
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The chickens are coming home to roost in the Middle East. The experts who supported the removal of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, e.g., The New York Times’ Tom Friedman and many others, are perhaps now wondering if they were right to do so.
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