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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn Eight Killed in Attack on Jerusalem Yeshiva
Jerusalem — Thousands of mourners turned out Friday for the funerals of the eight students, aged 15 to 26, killed in Thursday’s attack at a prominent yeshiva in Jerusalem. With Thursday’s shooting, Palestinian terrorists brought the bloodshed that had been limited to an ever-growing area around Gaza to the heart of the Jewish state. A…
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Fast Forward As Hostilities Heat Up, Olmert Vows To Keep Pressure on Hamas
JERUSALEM — A surge in bloodshed over the last few days has pushed the battle in the Gaza Strip into a new phase, with Hamas militants expanding their attacks on Israel to include a sizable city and Israel responding with a military operation in Gaza. Though the Israel Defense Forces ended its limited operation Monday,…
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Fast Forward Rocket Fire on Ashkelon Raises Stakes in Gaza Conflict
Israeli lawmakers pressed for massive military action in the Gaza Strip after a sizeable Israeli city came under Palestinian rocket fire this week and a man in Sderot was killed by a Kassam rocket. Gaza Palestinians fired Katyusha-type rockets Thursday into Ashkelon, a coastal Israeli city of some 120,000 people about 10 miles from the…
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News Obama Meets With Jewish Leaders
Barack Obama met with Cleveland Jewish leaders in a private meeting Sunday a few hours before his chief Jewish surrogate, Florida Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, took questions from a crowd of 500 at a local synagogue. Obama suggested in his meeting that a driving force in his Jewish campaign was fighting back against an Internet…
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News St. Petersburg University Clashes With City Officials
Russia’s only graduate program dedicated to Jewish studies is caught in the crossfire between its parent university and St. Petersburg city officials, who closed the university last week over fire code violations. Critics say the closure was a politically motivated response to a university course in election monitoring. The European University at St. Petersburg, which…
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News Tom Lantos Left Behind Human Rights Legacy
The flags dipped at half-staff over the Capitol, the warm remembrances flooded e-mail inboxes, the “Have you heard?” phone calls took a solemn tone. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) earned all these tributes. He died Monday of esophageal cancer at the age of 80. The mourning was not just for a man but for the…
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News Tom Lantos, Age 80, Holocaust Survivor and Congress Member
Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress, has died. Lantos, 80, a Democrat from California, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in suburban Washington, Jewish sources said Monday. Lantos announced last month that this term would be his last in the U.S. House of Representatives; he had been diagnosed with cancer…
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News South Africa and Australia Battle Over Jewish Immigration
Sydney, Australia – South African Jewish leaders are fuming over a new initiative to help Jews immigrate to Australia from Africa. The initiative in question is Project Sydney, a joint effort of the New South Wales Jewish Communal Appeal and the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies that would help South African Jews who…
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