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NY Times reporter resigns after accusations of bias
JTASep 29, 2011
JERUSALEM New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner has resigned from the speakers bureau of a Jerusalem-based public relations firm amid charges of...
At UN, Abbas, Netanyahu trade charges of ‘ethnic cleansing’
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 25, 2011
NEW YORK Mahmoud Abbas outlined a vision for an independent Palestine that hewed to the two-state formula but also revived rhetoric that hearkened back to an era of...
Obama says it straight at the UN: ‘No shortcut to end of conflict’
Chris LeppekSep 22, 2011
NEW YORK (IJN) Although Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas didnt budge this week on his stated bid to introduce his unilateral declaration of...
Presbyterians going back to divestment from Israel
Dan Klein, JTASep 22, 2011
NEW YORK — A decision by a group within the Presbyterian Church USA to reintroduce a resolution calling for divestment from companies doing business with Israel is...
Community-wide rally for Israel Sunday
IJN StaffSep 22, 2011
The Status of Israel and the Peace Process in Light of the Palestinian UN Initiative, a community-wide meeting to support Israel, will take place Sunday, Sept 25,...
Obama, Netanyahu to meet at U.N. in New York
JTASep 18, 2011
BREAKING NEWS: Stand by for details about a major community rally next Sunday, Sept. 25, at Temple Emanuel, to become informed how to counter the Palestinian attempt...
Orthodox Jew says he can’t testify: ‘Mesira’ vs. American justice
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 15, 2011
WASHINGTON In a Los Angeles courtroom, the federal justice system is colliding with one of the most vexing areas of Jewish law. Rabbi Moshe Zigelman, 64, already has...
Does Turner win signal move to GOP?
JTASep 15, 2011
By Daniel Treiman, JTA NEW YORK — Was it Israel, same-sex marriage or the Obama administrations handling of the economy? Thats the question political partisans...
Shalit takes case to free his son Gilad to the UN
Dan Klein, JTASep 15, 2011
By NEW YORK — Noam Shalit, the father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, wants his sons plight to be part of the discussion of Palestinian statehood at the...
Embassy attack stokes Israeli fears of a new Egypt
Linda Gradstein, JTASep 15, 2011
JERUSALEM Retired Israeli Air Force pilot Uri Dromi remembers the day 34 years ago when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel to tell the Israeli people...
