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‘Mossad chief indispensable on Iran’
Leslie Susser, JTAFeb 25, 2010
JERUSALEM Israel has not claimed responsibility for the assassination in Dubai of top Hamas arms smuggler Mahmoud Mabhouh, but the killing is raising questions about...
ADL flunks Obama on Middle East
IJN StaffFeb 11, 2010
By Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM — Two-and-a-half weeks after US President Barack Obama completed his first year in office, observers both in Israel and the US on Sunday,...
Israel’s response to Goldstone
Uriel Heilman, JTAFeb 11, 2010
NEW YORK With Israels submission of its formal response to the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, the question now is: Did the response suffice? On Jan. 29, the...
New Israel Fund attacked
Leslie Susser, JTAFeb 11, 2010
JERUSALEM A campaign against the New Israel Fund a US-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel has sparked a fierce debate over the...
After courts decide ‘who is a Jew,’ British Jews ask: fight it or wait?
JTAFeb 11, 2010
By Winston Pickett, JTA LONDON — To fight or not to fight? That question has bitterly divided the Jewish community in Britain following the Supreme Court ruling a...
Denverite Melmed rides 1,000 miles for kids
IJN StaffFeb 04, 2010
By David E. Kaplan, Jerusalem Post DURING the month of October, Denver resident Herzl Melmed was on a mission. Clasping his handlebars with gritty determination,...
Major Jewish organizations’ agenda for Obama in 2010
JTAFeb 04, 2010
WASHINGTON Following President Obamas State of the Union address and the start of the new congressional year, JTA asked Jewish organizations operating...
Political money tests Jewish influence
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 28, 2010
WASHINGTON In the rarefied arena of ideas, the American Jewish community has done quite well over the years in making the case for Israel, civil rights and the...
ZAKA in Haiti: First person
JTAJan 28, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Arele Klein, a volunteer for the ZAKA disaster relief organization in Israel, shares his experiences and thoughts in the following journal...
Tefilin scares flight crew, diverts flight
JTAJan 28, 2010
By Bryan Schwartzman, Jewish Exponent PHILADELPHIA — If there’s any upshot to the misunderstanding that grounded a small aircraft last week in Philadelphia...
