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Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: Terrorist Front [ Post 1243275 ]
ÂÂ Category: News & OpinionÂÂTopic: Member Opinions & Questions
ÂÂ Synopsis: HIAS supports Asher Karni's hideout
ÂÂ Source: various
ÂÂ Published: January 27, 2004ÂÂAuthor: bluegrass
ÂÂ For Education and Discussion Only.ÂÂNot for Commercial Use.
On 01/28/04, Asher Karni was released to the custody of the Hebrew Sheltering Home in Silver Spring, MD, under the supervision of Rabbi Herzel Kranz. Kranz is the Executive Director of the Mid Atlantic Orthodox Rabbis. Karni is awaiting trial for smuggling nuclear weapon triggers to Pakistan and was arrested on New Year's Day in Denver.
The Hebrew Sheltering Home is supported by The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. HIAS is sheltering a nuclear terrorist, a terrorist that was selling weapons parts to a Muslim nation. Pakistan is rumored to be hiding members of Al Qaeda.
The Board of HIAS has many prominent American Zionists, Jewish Communal leaders of all shades, bankers, lawyers and judges. The President and CEO was Department of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge's press secretary when Ridge was a member of the US House of Representatives.
In the War on Terror, why do Americans allow these material supporters of terrorists to remain in their midst?
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A representative sampling of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society's Board of Directors:
Jerome S. Teller
Chair of the Board
Mr. Teller is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College; a member of the Conference of President of Major Jewish Organizations; a past president of Jewish Federation of Cincinnati; a past president of the Cedar Village camps for Jewish Life in Cincinnati and very active in a number of other Jewish organizations, including HIAS, where he has been a board member since 1994. His volunteer activities have been recognized over the years: the Hebrew Union College conferred its Distinguished Service Award upon him in 2000; the National Conference of Christians and Jews awarded him a Distinguished Service Award in 1995, and the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati presented him in 1991 with the Friedlander Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. A senior partner with Katz, Teller, Brant & Hild, Mr. Teller earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Suzanne, have three children and twelve grandchildren.
Leonard S. Glickman
President and CEO
Before joining HIAS in 1998, Mr. Glickman was the executive assistant - the top career position - at the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), in the Department of Health and Human Services, a post he held seven years. Before ORR, Mr. Glickman was press secretary for U.S. Representative Tom Ridge (now Governor of Pennsylvania), and before that, minority staff director and legislative assistant for U.S. Senator John Heinz. Mr. Glickman holds a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from American University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Sandi, live in Millburn, N.J. and have three children.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Rabbi Arthur Schneier has served as the Rabbi of the historic Park East Synagogue in Manhattan since 1962. He founded and serves as the dean of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School and the Minskoff Cultural Center, and is the founding president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation. A Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Schneier is know for his pioneering role in the struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry and the rebuilding of Jewish religious life in Russia, the Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He successfully negotiated the return of the Moscow Synagogue to the Jewish community and was instrumental in the restoration of the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai.
Rabbi Schneier was appointed US Alternate Representative to the United Nations by President Reagan and chairman of the US Commission for the Preservation of the America's Heritage Abroad by Presidents Bush and Clinton. He successfully negotiated with the governments of Eastern Europe for the return and protection of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries. In 1998, Clinton appointed him to be one of the three US religious leaders to examine the life of religious communities in China and (SAR) Tibet.
Rabbi Schneier was actively engaged in energizing leaders of the world in halting the bloodshed in the former Yugoslavia. He convened the Religious Summit on the Former Yugoslavia where the participants called for an end to the ethnic war and later on the Conflict Resolution Conference in Vienna which planted the seeds of the Dayton Accord.
Rabbi Schneier is honorary president, Religious Zionists of America; honorary chairman, World Jewish Congress - American Section; member, Executive Committee, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; board member, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He is also a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience, and has worked closely with Israeli government and rabbinic leaders to advance the cause of the State of Israel. Rabbi Schneier is married to Elisabeth Nordmann Schneier and has two children, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Karen Schneier Dresbach.
Rabbi Marc Schneier
Rabbi Marc Schneier is the president of the North American Board of Rabbis. He is also the president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, promoting dialogue between ethnic and religious communities as a means to the reduction of bigotry and to greater reconciliation and understanding. The late John Cardinal OâConnor, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King III, Kweisi Mfume, Elie Wiesel and human rights activists around the world, have joined him in this work. In 1997, he was invited by President Clinton to participate in the Inaugural White House Conference on Race Relations. In addition, he serves as chairman of the World Jewish Congress Commission on Intergroup Relations and is the past president of the New York Board of Rabbis. He is the founding rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue, in Westhampton Beach, N.Y.
Rabbi Schneier is the author of Shared Dreams, a book documenting Martin Luther King, Jr.âs relationship with the Jewish community. He has appeared as a rabbi in the Miramax motion picture, The Substance of Fire. His many awards include the Civil Rights Leadership Award in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1999), the NAACP Martin Luther King, Jr. âMeasure of a Man Awardâ (1997) and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1996). A graduate of Yeshiva University, he resides in New York with his wife, Toby, and their children Sloane and Brendan.
Dale Schwartz
A member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Georgia, Mr. Schwartz earned his law degree at the University of Georgia. Where he was editor of the Georgia Law Review. He served as national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and on a number of national boards of organizations concerned with immigration and refugee matters. He has testified as an expert witness before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on immigration legislation.
Mr. Schwartz is also very active in the Jewish community. He has served on the HIAS board since 1981. He won the Abe Goldstein Young Leadership Award given by the Atlanta Jewish Federation, on whose board he served for many years. He served as president of Jewish Family Services in Atlanta and as chairman of the Southeastern Region of the Anti-Defamation League. He is a recipient of the American Jewish Congress' Justice Hugo Black Award for Social Justice. He is married to Susan Schwartz.
Eric P. Schwartz
Eric P. Schwartz is a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace, and recipient of the Jennings Randolph Fellowship for International Peace. Mr. Schwartz has advised U.S. Presidents as a director for the National Security Council, and has taught graduate courses at Princeton University. He himself holds a JD from New York Universityâs School of Law and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Mr. Schwartz and his wife, Catherine, live in Silver Spring, Md., where he has been Parent/Teacher Association vice-president at the elementary school his two daughters attend.
