simmons | March 27, 2017
March 23, 2017 COURTESY PHOTOPictured is a rendering of the Senior Residences at the Machon. By GAYLA CAWLEY SWAMPSCOTT Draft schematic plans for the affordable senior housing redevelopment of the shuttered Machon Elementary School were presented to residents for the first time Thursday night. Residents gathered at Swampscott High School to hear project plans presented by Peter Kane, director of community development, and the developers, Bnai Brith Housing, represented by Susan Gittelman, executive director, and Holly Grace, senior project manager.
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admin | March 27, 2017
A demonstrator wears a shirt reading 'Boycott Israel' [File]. (photo credit:AFP/ MOHD RASFAN) WASHINGTON Texas has been a hotbed of anti-BDS activity in recent days, with the passage of a bill in the Senate on Wednesday that will bar state contracts and investment in companies that boycott Israel, and mounting criticism by Jewish organizations of a local banks BDS activity. Chuck Lindell from the American-Statesman paper reported that the Texas Senate passed the bill opposing BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) by a 25-4 vote and that it was sent to the Texas House of Representatives for a vote.
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simmons | March 27, 2017
Greg Phipps swampscott@wickedlocal.com @swampscott_rep It's been a decade since the former Machon Elementary School closed operation in 2007. After years of public debate in Swampscott over what to do with the nearly-100-year-old vacant building and land, it appears the town is set to make use of the property on Burpee Road
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simmons | March 27, 2017
WASHINGTON One candidate has the endorsement of a civil rights giant.
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simmons | March 25, 2017
With characteristic poise, Rabbi David Wolpe turned to the three panelists onstage at Sinai Temple on a recent Wednesday evening, in front of a sellout crowd of some 250 people. Im going to start with a quick yes-or-no question, he began.
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admin | March 25, 2017
Women and allies march during the International Womens Strike on March 8, 2017, in New York, New York. (Sipa USA via AP Images) Editors Note: Collier Meyersons interview with Linda Sarsour about Zionism and feminism, published last week at TheNation.com, generated a number of thoughtful letters from readers, as well as a response from Emily Shire, whose New York Times op-ed on the subject prompted Meyersons interview.
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admin | March 25, 2017
The question is whether Zionism can make room for a trulyinclusive equality. Hundreds take part in a Womens March protest outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2017.
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admin | March 25, 2017
Please enable Javascript to watch this video KINGSTON -- Last month, Newswatch 16 introduced you to a shoe-collecting drive at one school in Luzerne County. Several weeks later, the stands of the school gymnasium at Wyoming Valley West Middle School are overflowing with bags upon bags of shoes. "We have basketball shoes, we have cleats, slippers, we have everything," exclaimed student Anthony Severns.
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admin | March 25, 2017
For the past 15 years, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has been promoting the so-called Saudi Initiative, a plan he says proves that Saudi Arabia sincerely wants peace with Israel. But this week, a senior Palestinian leader revealed that at the very moment the Saudis were launching that plan, they were financing a major wave of terrorism against Israel. Its time for Friedman to publicly admit he was wrong and apologize for the harm he caused to Israel
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simmons | March 25, 2017
Marisell Viega The Orlando Chapter Hadassah presents "Lunch with Cuban-born author Marisella Veiga" on Tuesday, April 4, at Congregation Ohev Shalom at 11:30 a.m. She will present her book, "We Carry Our Homes With Us", a memoir of her flight from Cuba as a young girl and her integration into American life. Veiga is a professional writer and college professor
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