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Breaking News Romney: Israel Deserves Better Than Obama
People of Israel deserve better diplomatic protection than that they have been receiving from the United States under President Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an address on Tuesday. Speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada on his upcoming visit to Israel, Romney said the incumbent president…
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Breaking News Gay Pride Film Showing Disrupted in Jerusalem
A large police force was dispatched Monday evening to a Jerusalem café, after patrons that had gathered to view a video on gay pride received death threats from local residents. Squad cars, riot police and an unmarked police car were sent to Hasalon café in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot, in order to restore public…
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Breaking News Australian Chabad Faces Abuse, Fiscal Scandals
The two major branches of Chabad-Lubavitch in Australia are in the grip of separate crises that threaten to tar the movement’s reputation and undermine much of the work the Hasidic organization has invested in the six decades since it began operating here. In Melbourne, a judge last week set the date for the trial of…
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Breaking News African Immigrants’ Cash Helps Hamas: Probe
When Justice Ministry officials began to draft a law that would ban Africans migrants from sending money from Israel to their relatives at home, they were not surprised to discover that hundreds of thousands of shekels from the foreign workers’ salaries find their way overseas every week. What stunned the officials, however, was the discovery…
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Breaking News Iranians Will Compete Against Israelis at Olympics
Iranian athletes will compete against Israelis at the London Olympics, according to the country’s chef de mission. Iran has been criticized in the past because some of its athletes withdrew from events against Israelis at the 2004 Athens Games and 2008 Beijing Games. “We will be truthful to sport,” said Bahram Afsharzadeh, who is also…
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Breaking News Obama Team Slams Romney for ‘Photo Op’ Trip
Members of President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign on Monday strongly criticized Mitt Romney’s upcoming overseas trip, charging that Republican presidential candidate’s planned visit to Britain, Israel and Poland centers more on “photo-ops and fundraising” than issues of substance. The Obama campaign won’t let Romney boost his foreign policy credentials so easily, with a top adviser…
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Israel News Clues to 3,400-Year-Old Mystery
Israeli archaeologists have recently unearthed a palace at the Tel Hatzor National Park in Upper Galilee, revealing rare findings – jugs containing scorched wheat from some 3,400 years ago. The find provides still more tangible evidence of the destruction of Canaanite city of Hatzor, an event dated at the mid-13th century B.C.E. The jugs were…
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Breaking News Actresses Erased From Jerusalem Movie Ad
Two actresses have been axed from advertisements for the Israeli movie “The Dealers,” displayed on billboards in Jerusalem – just months after hundreds of people participated in rallies in the capital to protest the exclusion of women from the public domain. Other ads for the film – a comedy about friends from Jerusalem looking for…
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