admin | August 31, 2011
Hamas has barred a group of Palestinian teenagers awarded scholarships to study in the United States from leaving Gaza. The eight students, aged 15-17, were chosen for merit scholarships to study in America for a year.
admin | August 31, 2011
JERUSALEM – Upgrading the Palestinians’ UN status would be a “strategic mistake by the world”, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday, cautioning that Israel had prepared a slew of punitive and diplomatic responses.
admin | August 31, 2011
Two middle schoolers who scrawled a swastika and “Adolf” on a wall near the Venice Jewish cemetery must read “The Diary of Anne Frank” as part of their punishment.
admin | August 31, 2011
More doctors and hospitals are helping Jewish couples with the sometimes tricky task of conceiving while still observing the ancient rules of religious law
admin | August 31, 2011
The American Jewish community spends a fortune every year trying to keep Jews connected to their Judaism. Much of that money goes to what I call “Please-Come-Here”
admin | August 31, 2011
With a new school year upon us, I found the following story, “What Teachers Make,” revealing. “The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to discuss the current problems with education.
admin | August 31, 2011
When I first heard that famed architect Daniel Libeskind is being commissioned to design the National Museum of the Jewish People in Washington, D.C., my first thought was, “Is this really necessary?”
admin | August 31, 2011
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU moved closer to a trade deal with the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday after unanimous backing from European lawmakers to fully open markets to farm and fish products from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
admin | August 31, 2011
In a photograph currently hanging in the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH), Holocaust survivor Sophie Zeidman Hamburger drapes a garment she wore while escaping from a Nazi death march over her arms, one of which bears a number tattoo.
admin | August 31, 2011
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday warned against the United States taking “control” of the uprisings that have swept the Arab world, state television reported.
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