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‘Land Day’ highlights Israel’s Arab dilemma
Leslie Susser, JTAApr 08, 2010
JERUSALEM A mass demonstration by Israeli Arabs highlighted the core contradiction at the heart of the Israeli-Arab experience: demands for greater equality within...
US violated own anti-Iran sanctions; congressmen seek to enforce them
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 02, 2010
WASHINGTON Rules without enforcement dont mean much. Thats the new tone AIPAC and its supporters on Capitol Hill are taking when it comes to Iran sanctions. Last...
Obama doesn’t buy Bibi’s flow charts
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 02, 2010
WASHINGTON For Benjamin Netanyahu, the formula for resolving US-Israeli tensions came in the form of a flow chart. The Israeli prime minister took the chart with him...
Many Jews mum on healthcare
Jacob Berkman, JTAMar 25, 2010
By Jacob Berkman, JTA NEW YORK — Several Jewish non-profit groups are lauding passage of healthcare reform legislation, saying it will benefit the community on a...
Barack, Bibi meet
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 25, 2010
WASHINGTON The effort by US and Israeli leaders to move past recent tensions appeared no closer to resolution after three days of intensive talks. The White House...
Israel, US scrambling to limit damage
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 18, 2010
WASHINGTON By the time this years AIPAC policy conference starts, its organizers indeed, pretty much the entire Washington village inside a village that calls...
Internet guru silenced in Cuban jail
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 11, 2010
WASHINGTON Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the...
Rabbi Weiss backs down on ‘rabba’
Ben Harris, JTAMar 11, 2010
NEW YORK On the eve of a conference marking the expansion of leadership roles for women within Orthodoxy, the trends most prominent rabbinic proponent has...