The Jewish Voice and Opinion http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com en-us jvosusan@gmail.com jvosharon@gmail.com The Jewish Voice and Opinion is a politically conservative Jewish publication which present news and feature articles not generally available elsewhere in the Jewish or secular media. Oslo, Wye, the "Road Map," and Now the "Benchmarks": The US Tries again to Bring Peace by Forcing Israel to Make Concessions and the PA to Hold Photo-Ops http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/jvo200705a.html Susan Rosenbluth Mon, 07 May 2007 16:54:24 EST 2007 Jewish Voice and Opinion, Englewood, NJ. All rights reserved. At the beginning of May, the Bush administration handed Israeli and Palestinian leaders an eight-month timetable setting specific dates—some of which have already passed—for steps both sides must take to push the peace process forward. The timeline demands that Israel remove its security roadblocks from Palestinian areas and allow Palestinian bus and truck convoys to travel unimpeded between Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Rothman and LoBiondo Lead Battle to Change Anti-Israel Slant on US Gov’t’s Arab Station http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/jvo200705b.html Susan Rosenbluth Mon, 07 May 2007 16:54:24 EST Two New Jersey Congressmen have expressed outrage that Alhurra, a US-funded Arabic-language television network in the Middle East created to counter the propaganda of media such as Al Jazeera, has broadcast live, hour-long interviews with terrorist leaders and sympathetically viewed Holocaust deniers. Self-Defense Negev Farmer Accused of Manslaughter; Israeli Farmers and Ranchers Say: "We Are All Shai Dromi" http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/jvo200705c.html Susan Rosenbluth Mon, 07 May 2007 16:54:24 EST The head of the Israeli Ranchers Association, Moshe Har-Shemesh, is convinced that, in any other country in the world, Shai Dromi "would be treated as a national hero." In Israel, Mr. Dromi, a 42-year-old Negev farmer who shot Bedouin intruders in what certainly looks like self defense, has been arrested. "Sodomite Rabbis": The History Behind the Conservative Movement’s Acceptance of Openly Homosexual Rabbis http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/jvo200701d.html Catriel Sugarman Mon, 07 May 2007 16:54:24 EST Last month, after the scholars who guide Conservative Judaism lifted the ban on gay rabbinic ordination, the Conservative movement’s flagship institution, the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, said it will start accepting avowedly gay and lesbian applicants to its rabbinical school. Supporting Giuliani in Hebrew http://www.jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/jvo200702a.html Susan Rosenbluth Mon, 07 May 2007 16:54:24 EST Mordechai Twersky, a former communal leader from the Bronx who once ran for the New York State Assembly, now lives in Israel. It’s a sure bet, however, that he will vote by absentee ballot in the New York Republican Presidential primary next year. Mr. Twersky is the founder of Giuliani Supporters in Israel, a grass-roots effort to mobilize support for the former NYC mayor from Israelis with US citizenship.