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Barghouti Warns Against U.S. Veto of Palestinian State

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti said worldwide protests will result from a U.S. veto of a Palestinian state at the United Nations. Barghouti, who has been imprisoned in Israel since 2002 for murdering Israelis but still remains influential in the Arab world, told an Egyptian news service that a U.S. veto of a Palestinian state…

By JTA Aug 10, 2011 | 2 min read
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Hillel Plans Tent Cities on U.S. College Campuses

The tent movement is spreading. In Israel, tent cities are popping up throughout the country as part of a broad social protest against high housing prices in the Jewish state. In America, Hillel just announced it is planning to set up tents at 20 campuses across the country this fall as places for respectful dialogue…

By JTA Aug 10, 2011 | 3 min read
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Baltimore Rabbi Jacob Max Dies at 87

Jacob Max, a longtime Baltimore-area rabbi who in 2009 was convicted of sexual offense, has died. Max, who was active in the Baltimore Jewish community for more than six decades, died Tuesday at a Baltimore-area hospital at the age of 87. He was the rabbi emeritus of the Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation. Max…

By JTA Aug 10, 2011 | < 1 min read
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Blogger Charged With Threatening To Kill Sen. Lieberman

The FBI has charged a Philadelphia blogger with threatening to shoot Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Dmitry Dyatlov, 23, was charged Tuesday for making the threat on his blog against Lieberman (I-Conn.). He was arrested Aug. 2, and bail was set at $500,000. According to reports, Dyatlov would be under house arrest in his apartment until a…

By JTA Aug 10, 2011 | < 1 min read
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Settler Leader Visits Tent City To Support Protest

The chairman of the main settler organization visited the tent city in Tel Aviv to express solidarity. Danny Dayan, chairman of the Yesha Council, met Tuesday with the leaders of the housing protest. He was joined by the heads of two West Bank municipalities. “This protest has brought the true social hardships to the surface…

By JTA Aug 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
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London Riots Spread to Orthodox Jewish Neighborhoods

Rioting in London spread to the Jewish community. Stores in the Jewish communities of Stamford Hill and Golders Green were urged to close and secure merchandise Monday night as unrest that began Saturday night in the north London neighborhood of Tottenham spread throughout London. Residents of Tottenham’s Chasidic Orthodox community reportedly gathered on the street…

By JTA Aug 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
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On Protest’s Main Street, Penthouse Has Pricetag of $50M

While hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets to protest the high cost of housing, a penthouse on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Street is on the market for $50 million. It’s the highest price ever charged for a home in Israel, the Berggruen Group, which is selling the two-floor apartment, told Ynet. The apartment,…

By JTA Aug 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
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Holocaust Fund Scam Artist Gets Year in Prison

A Russian Jewish immigrant was sentenced to a year and a day in jail for scamming thousands from a fund benefiting Holocaust victims. Polina Anoshina, 63, of the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, also received two years probation when she was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Anoshina was the first to be…

By JTA Aug 9, 2011 | < 1 min read

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