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AJC’s Don Schlesinger lays down the law
Chris LeppekJul 08, 2010
DON Schlesinger jokes that a few years ago, when he left his former career as a corporate attorney in Las Vegas to go to work for a Jewish non-profit agency […]
Flotilla calls attention to Shalit
JTAJul 01, 2010
NEW YORK Some 100 to 200 passengers in all, they came as members of a self-described True Freedom Flotilla intent on promoting a Middle East-related humanitarian...
Jewish-Muslim friendship bus brakes for peace
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJul 01, 2010
BESANCON, France On a hot afternoon in early June, an unusual looking bus is parked in the central square of this historic city in eastern France. Passers-by cast...
Israel discovers huge deposit of natural gas
Dina Kraft, JTAJul 01, 2010
TEL AVIV More than a year after a massive natural gas find in the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli coast sparked hopes in Israel of a new era of […]
Rubashkin sentenced to 27 years
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 24, 2010
WASHINGTON For years Sholom Rubashkin made his living as an executive in the countrys largest kosher meatpacking company. Now to keep him out of prison, his defense...
Israel is key to African development
JTAJun 24, 2010
By Larry Luxner, JTA MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — On a barren, 60-acre tract of land overlooking the Gulf of Guinea, bulldozer operators turn the earth while sweaty...
IJN takes home six Rockower Awards for excellence in Jewish journalism
IJN StaffJun 24, 2010
The Intermountain Jewish News staff won six Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association,...
Secular-religious tensions in Israel reach boiling point
Leslie Susser, JTAJun 24, 2010
JERUSALEM The showdown between the Supreme Court and the parents of students at a haredi Orthodox school found guilty of discriminatory practices against Sephardic...
Cheyenne: Mt. Sinai’s 100th anniversary
IJN StaffJun 24, 2010
Mt. Sinai, the oldest synagogue in Cheyenne, Wyo., will celebrate its centennial the weekend of June 25-27. At the turn of the century, Jewish immigrants from Eastern...
Kyrgyzstan Jews pitching in to help region
JTAJun 17, 2010
MOSCOW The Jewish community of Bishkek is helping to deliver humanitarian aid to the south of Kyrgyzstan for those who are caught up in the ethnic rioting taking...
