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Opinion . Tradition . ISRAEL AND A2. THE BATTLEGROUND OF IDEAS ATONEMENT A9. IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY QUALITIES TO LOOK FOR IN A PARTNER A8 algemeiner THE JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 5 Iyar 5772 VOL. XXXIX NO. 2058 1.00 PRINTED IN NEW YORK Exclusive Former Iraqi Parliamentarian Says Nouri alMaliki is a Tool of Iran Benzion Netanyahu, Prime Ministers Father, Dies at 102 BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS SERVICE Benzion Netanyahu, historian, Zionist activist and influential father of Prime Minis

A2 FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 Opinion . With regard to engaging youth, it is true as one panelist mentioned, that many young people have other priorities, but then again, our adversaries are faced with the same challenge. The success of the BDS movement for example is not because young adults are clamoring to participate in distorted applications of social justice principles, but that the organizers understood the power of consistency and proactiveness. If we are to seek methods to inspire young Jew

www.algemeiner.com World News . FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 A3 Israel Lowers Sales Tax Former IDF Chief of Staff on Arab Spring We on Clean Energy Cars Didnt See it Coming BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS Gabi Ashkenazi, former chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces, said in New York that the socalled Arab Spring is an Islamic storm and that we didnt see it coming. Israel must be ready, in the future, for an event we cant predict, Ashkenazi said at the first annual Jerusalem Post Confer

A4 FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 World News . 1,000 prisoners in exchange for the return of kidnapped Israel soldier Gilad Shalit. I say to all armed factions, the way to free the prisoners is through swaps ... An arrest for an arrest, and freedom for freedom. This is the way, said Khaled AlBatsh, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, according to the Jerusalem Post. Kidnap Israelis to Exchange for Prisoners, Islamists Say BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS SERVICE Islamist leaders say that mil

www.algemeiner.com World News U.S News .. FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 A5 Madeleine Albright Details Jewish Federation Trip to Israel Biggest Roots in New Book in 10 Years BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS Former Secretary of State and UN ambassador Madeleine Albright has written a new book, Prague Winter, in which she describes her discovery of her familys Jewish roots. Albright, the daughter of a Czech diplomat, was born in Prague in 1937. The family fled after the Nazi invasion in 1939, eventually immigrating

A6 FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Opinion . Why Does Gd Allow Children to be Born with Mental Disability SHMULEY BOTEACH N E W YO R K Arriving in LA to serve as scholarinresidence this past weekend, I picked up the handsome brochure put out by Chabad. org on the weekly Torah reading. Contained therein was a short piece by Rabbi Aron Moss addressing the question of why some children are born with mental disability. Mosss answer, however wellintentioned, disturbed me deeply and I felt there had to be a

www.algemeiner.com Opinion . FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 A7 Tea Party Opportunist Takes on Lugar in Indiana But Turns Out to be a Mr. Softee companies that hire undocumented workers according to the campaign questionnaire, he took no position. Is that sort of like HEATHER ROBINSON voting present NEW YORK Lugar, meanwhile, while making no claims to be an archconservative, has consistently advanced securityminded foreign policy during his decades in the Senate with noteworthy success. Lets revisit

A8 FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 Impressions . carry on, as the hackneyed but still useful World War II saying goes. You might still have a satisfying relationship if both of you are respectful as in interested and supportive of one anothers tenets. For those who not only observe the High Holy Days and Shabbat, but also keep kosher, follow the sacred texts closely and attend synagogue regularly, not any Jew will do. If leading an organized religious life is fundamental to your identity, its natural to

www.algemeiner.com FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 A9 Tradition. Legal Notice LEGAL NOTICE File No. 20111524A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT Esther R. Gelber, John Berger, Helen Thim, Herman Decker, Linda Rose, Nathan Berger, Douglas Berger, Sharon L. Berger, Greg Berger. Attorney General of the State of New York To The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of WARREN BERGER, deceased, or their estates, if any there b

A10 FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 Tradition . I am sure you did. Still, today, now, your son has grown to be a tremendous soul. He needs to see you and you need to see him. Please consider that. Ill get back to you. He didnt. But now I was on the warpath. So I called again. He did apologize for not getting back almost making me respect his cordiality, until I remembered why were here in the first place and said that his wife would not be able to do it. Too uncomfortable. He mumbled something about ha

www.algemeiner.com Social Pictured here speaking at a recent 92nd Street Y event in New York, Dr. Charles Small, former director of the Yale University center on antiSemitism closed by the school in 2011, is building a new institute dedicated to the study of contemporary antiSemitism. Photo Maxine Dovere. . FRIDAY, MAY4, 2012 A11 Top New York Restaurants Indulge in Israeli Caviar BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Daniel, one of Manhattans most revered restaurants and a favorite of the pretheater crowd,

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