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Suu Kyi of Myanmar to be honored
JTAApr 12, 2012
WASHINGTON The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will honor Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democracy movement in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Suu Kyi, who recently...
Crisis-hit Greek Jews fear for their future
Gavin Rabinowitz, JTAApr 12, 2012
ATHENS Patricia Alcalay, 24, has been unemployed since she finished her nursing degree in December, 2010. Her father lost his job four months ago, a year shy of...
Beinart, Shrage debate
JTAApr 12, 2012
By Shira Schoenberg, JTA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Peter Beinart has had some harsh words for the Jewish establishment. In 2010, he shook up the communal debate over...
Dueling billboards hit Denver
Chris LeppekApr 12, 2012
THIS spring, the Middle East conflict has arrived on the streets of metro Denver. Not, thankfully, in the form of rockets or airstrikes, but in the tried-and-true media...
Tunisian Jews wary of Islamists
JTAApr 05, 2012
By Armin Rosen, JTA TUNIS — Tucked on a quiet side street blocks from the Mediterranean Sea, the last kosher restaurant in the Tunisian capital is a thriving center...
Livni’s fall follows meteoric rise
Mati Wagner, JTAApr 05, 2012
JERUSALEM Tzipi Livnis resounding fall in the leadership vote for Kadima, Israels largest political party, was as dramatic as her rise to political power. Ahead...
Lunch program to remain at JCC; JFS will fund
Andrea JacobsApr 05, 2012
Sometimes to have a little good luck is the most brilliant plan. Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors PHILANTHROPIST Joyce Zeff rushed to the plate at the...
French Jews favor Sarkozy more?
JTAMar 29, 2012
By Dnaiel Hoffman, JTA PARIS — With the first round of Frances presidential election less than four weeks away, the attacks that left four Jews and three French...
Thousands to converge on Israel’s border in pro-Palestinian march
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 29, 2012
JERUSALEM If pro-Palestinian calls for a so-called Global March to Jerusalem are heeded, thousands of Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria...
Condo ban on mezuzzahs ok?
JTAMar 29, 2012
WASHINGTON A Connecticut condominium association has drawn queries from the ADL a religious rights law office for allowing the display of items on doors but not...
