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News Israeli Lecturer Killed Shielding Virginia Tech Students
An Israeli lecturer killed in Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech saved the lives of several students by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman. Students of Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering and mathematics lecturer at Virginia Tech for 20 years, sent e-mails to his wife that told of how he blocked the…
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News National Roundup
The Democratic quest to take back the House of Representatives this November will rest, in part, on Steve Kagen, the victor in a crowded Democratic primary in Wisconsin’s eighth congressional district. Kagen, 56, a Jewish doctor from the city of Appletown, handily won Tuesday’s three-way contest, garnering 47% of the vote with 87% of precincts…
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News McKinney Bounced in Primary
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat who has drawn stiff criticism and opposition from pro-Israel activists, lost her primary bid for re-election. McKinney was defeated Tuesday in a runoff against Hank Johnson, who won 59% of the vote. The first black woman from Georgia to win a seat in Congress, McKinney has stirred anger among…
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Israel News Trump Sets His Sights on Israel’s Skyline
Developer/reality television star Donald Trump announced last week that he is planning to build a new tower in Israel. The 70-story edifice, which is to be built on the Ramat Gan site now occupied by the Elite candy company, would be the country’s tallest — a distinction that, since 2003, has belonged to Ramat Gan’s…
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News Newsdesk May 19, 2006
Chomsky, Militants Meet Noam Chomsky met with Hezbollah’s leader, the Al-Manar TV network reported. The terrorist group’s station broadcast that the American linguist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor met with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut this week, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. “Hezbollah’s insistence on keeping arms is justified,” Al-Manar quoted…
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News Newsdesk March 10, 2006
L.A. Rabbi Resigns Rabbi Aron Tendler has resigned from the pulpit of Shaarey Zedek, an Orthodox synagogue in Valley Village, Calif., under a cloud of sexual allegations relating to his previous tenure at an Orthodox high school. The controversy makes Tendler, 51, the second member of his prominent rabbinic family to fall under scrutiny for…
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
What’s in a name? According to Jews for Jesus, plenty. Last week, the Messianic Jewish organization filed a lawsuit against Internet titan Google in U.S. District Court in New York City, citing trademark infringement. The subject of the complaint is jewsforjesus.blogspot.com, the blog of an anonymous individual self-identified as Whistle Blower. The lawsuit demands control…
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News California Pol Passes on Pro-Rice Letter
Influential Democratic Rep. Howard Berman of California has refused to co-sponsor and sign a letter praising Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for brokering the recent Israeli-Palestinian agreement on the Rafah border crossing. “I was fine with everything about the letter except the last paragraph,” Berman, a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, told…
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