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Recognize Palestinian State
At The GOP Helm
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Paraguay joined
Robert Schostak, a Bloomfield Township-
several Latin and South American states
based real estate developer and Jewish
in recognizing a Palestinian state.
community activist, is the new chairman
The country's Ministry of Foreign
of the Republican Party in Michigan.
Affairs announced Jan. 27 that it recog-
The party finance
nized a "free and independent" state "with
chairman until now, he
the borders of June 4, 1967," according to
was elected by accla-
reports.
mation Saturday by
Paraguay "reaffirms its conviction that
2,000 convention del-
negotiations between Israel and Palestine
egates at DeVos Place
should re-start with the goal of reaching
in Grand Rapids.
peace and security for both nations:' the
Schostak, a major
ministry's statement reportedly continued.
fundraiser for the
Robert
Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,
party, succeeds Ronald
Schostak
Ecuador, Chile, Guyana and Peru all have
Weiser of Ann Arbor,
recognized a Palestinian state, some
who served a two-year
specifying that it be located within 1967
term. Weiser is a real
borders, in the past two months.
estate magnate, former
The Palestinian news agency WAFA
U.S. ambassador to the
reported on Sunday that Cyprus President
Slovak Republic and a
Dimitris Christofias sent a letter to
board member of the
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Henry Ford Museum in
Abbas in which he reportedly recognized
Ronald Weiser Dearborn.
a Palestinian state within 1967 borders.
Weiser and Schostak
Cyprus' foreign minister over the week-
end met with his Palestinian counterpart
and reportedly reiterated his country's
Thomas' Nemesis
support of a Palestinian state on the 1967
Is Named Editor
borders with Jerusalem as its capital.
NEW YORK (JTA) --
Earlier this month, Russian President
Rabbi David Nesenoff,
Dmitry Medvedev, during a visit to the
whose impromptu
Palestinian Authority in Jericho, reiter-
interview with journal-
ated Russia's recognition more than
ist Helen Thomas led to
A
two decades ago of an independent
her resignation, has been
Rabbi
Palestinian state, saying, "We supported,
named the publisher and
Nesenoff
and will support, the inalienable right of
editor of the Jewish Star.
the Palestinian people to an independent
The weekly newspaper, based on Long
state with its capital in east Jerusalem:'
Island in suburban New York, made the
Last week, Ireland upgraded the status
announcement late last week on behalf of
of the Palestinian mission to the country
its owners, Clifford and Stuart Richner.
to an embassy and promoted the head of
Nesenoff is an independent filmmaker
the mission to the status of ambassador.
and runs a blog called RabbiLive.com .
On May 27, on the sidelines of the first
Joint Space Initiative
Jewish American Heritage Month event at
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel signed an
the White House, Nesenoff asked Thomas
agreement with the European Space
if she had "any comments on Israel."
Agency on space cooperation for peaceful
"Tell them to get the hell out of
purposes.
Palestine she said.
The agreement, the first of its kind
Nesenoff then asked Thomas where the
between the two parties, was signed
Jews should go.
Sunday as part of the sixth International
"Go home Thomas said. Asked to
Ilan Ramon Conference.
elaborate, she said, "Poland, Germany and
It promotes projects of mutual interest
America, and everywhere else!'
in the fields of research and the peace-
The following month, Nesenoff posted
ful use of outer space. The agreement
the exchange on his blog. The public out-
facilitates the exchange of scientists,
cry let to Thomas' resignation from her
engineers and information, the holding of job as a columnist for the Hearst Corp.
joint conferences and symposiums, and
Nesenoff has spoken and written about
the promotion of communications and
the incident and present-day anti-Semi-
exchanges between research institutions
tism, according to the paper.
and industries in related areas.
"When it comes to Jewish news, local is
Israel has signed agreements in the
global;' Nesenoff said in an article in the
past few years with the space agencies
Jewish Star announcing his appointment.
from France and Italy.
And when it comes to Israel news, global
affects us locally."

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February 3 2011

combined forces to raise $30 million for
the GOP over the past year.
While the GOP took much of this past
November's elections, the task will be
more formidable with an incumbent
Democratic president coming up for re-
election in 2012.
"This cycle, the wind is in our faces,
and we will all need to be pulling and
pushing from the same direction in
order to achieve victory," Schostak said in
his acceptance speech, according to the
Detroit Free Press.
Schostak has been active in the com-
mercial real estate business since 1976.
Currently, he is the co-chairman and
CEO of Schostak Brothers & Company,
Inc., Southfield. His background includes
the development of more than 20 mil-
lion square feet of commercial property
located in the Great Lakes region.
He serves on the finance committee for
the Republican Governors Association,
of which he is an executive roundtable
member.

Debbie Friedman Remembered
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Reform move-
ment's cantorial school has been named
for the late Debbie Friedman.
Rabbi David Ellenson,
president of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion,
made the announce-
ment Jan. 27 in New
York at a memorial trib-
ute to Friedman, who
died Jan. 9 at 59.
Debbie
Friends of the late
Friedman
singer-songwriter have
made possible an endowment to the
school, which will be known as the Debbie
Friedman School of Sacred Music.
"A beloved member of our faculty since
2007, Debbie Friedman, z"1, inspired our
students through her creativity and musi-
cal talents, helped guide their spiritual
and leadership development, and provided
them with innovative strategies to trans-
form congregations into communities of
learning and meaning," Ellenson said.
"Her words and her music will live on
and shape the world of prayer in our syna-
gogues and in the larger Jewish commu-
nity for this and future generations."
Friedman transformed Jewish worship
in North American liberal synagogues
with her sing-along style of folk-inspired
music.
Since her start as a song leader in
Reform summer camps in the early 1970s,
she released 20 albums and was a much
sought-after performer on the Jewish
circuit.

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