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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
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NEW YORK — A secret operation to take imperiled Jews out of Yemen could be in jeopardy after news of the effort was made public.
Since a Yemenite Jew was murdered in December by a Muslim in the nor...
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NEW YORK — Three of the largest local Jewish federations in the United States announced significant layoffs during the past two weeks, raising concerns about the future health of the country’s main...
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NEW YORK — The newsletter sent out last month by Temple Israel of New Rochelle contained the usual sort of announcements, including a reminder about the synagogue’s upcoming Purim carnival, mazal t...
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JERUSALEM —They have come by the thousands — first-grade classes, families from the North, government ministers, rabbis, even tourists.
The black tarp tent where Gilad Shalit’s family has taken up ...
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JERUSALEM — Hanging over his desk, Nir Barkat keeps a large framed photograph of himself running the Jerusalem half-marathon. The city’s new mayor is quick to remind a visitor he also runs full mar...
Mar 11, 2009 | 0 | 16 |
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JERUSALEM — When it comes to Israel-Syria peacemaking, it takes three to tango.
Although Israel and Syria have been talking for the past two years, partly under Turkish auspices, progress was limit...
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TEL AVIV — Capt. Ofra Gutman’s work as the first female officer in the Rabbinate Corps of the Israel Defense Forces is a mix of the sacred and the logistical.
Sometimes her mission involves making ...
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NEW YORK — At York University in Toronto, a group of students had to be escorted from the Hillel office by campus police on Feb. 11 after a threatening mob shouting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slo...
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By Jacob Berkman
JTA
NEW YORK — The Yeshiva Elementary School, a fervently Orthodox institution in Miami Beach, Fla., with about 450 students, was in dire straits in late 2008. It was behind on pay...
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NEW YORK — The leadership of the Conservative movement’s synagogue arm has acceded to a request for an “urgent” meeting from a new coalition of clergy and laypeople to discuss new strategic directi...
