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June 26, 20140

Israeli engineering students look to go commercial

By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line [Beersheva, Israel] — The eager students and their projects are all over campus — some with posters, some with m

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June 26, 20140

Palestinian-Israeli security cooperation ramped up despite crisis

By Abdullah H. Erakat and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line As thousands of Israeli soldiers comb every inch of the West Bank in an intense search fo

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June 25, 20140

Israel to downscale operation searching for kidnapped teens

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Cabinet agreed to reduce the presence of the country's military in the West Bank and limit its incursions into Palestinian

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June 25, 20140

I say Granada, you say Grenada

(JTA) -- An American dentist who said he is of Spanish-Jewish heritage is suing British Airways for flying him to Grenada rather than Granada. Edwa

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June 25, 20140

Netanyahu addresses Presbyterian church divestment

Last Friday, June 22, the Presbyterian church announced its intentions to divest from companies that do business with Israel in the West Bank. Several

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June 25, 20140

Palestinian pollster: Kidnapping “Very bad for Palestinian people”

By Felice Friedson, The Media Line “Most Palestinians want the [kidnapped Israeli] kids to be alive and to be found,” says Dr. Nabil Kukali, the fo

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June 23, 20140

Jewish groups anticipate rupture after Presbyterians vote to divest

(JTA) -- Jewish groups predicted a rupture with Presbyterians in the wake of a close vote favoring divestment from three companies that deal with Isra

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June 23, 20140

Activists aiming to steer Israeli government funding to non-Orthodox

By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- At 3:30 Shavuot morning, more than 100 people are seated on folding chairs singing in Yiddish as

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June 19, 20140

Like Jews before them, Iraq’s Christians may face extinction after jihadist invasion

By Sean Savage, JNS.org For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as lit

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June 18, 20140

Canadians split on support for Israel and Palestinians, poll finds

TORONTO (JTA) -- Canadians were evenly split in their support for Israel and the Palestinians, according to a new poll. The survey by the Toronto-b

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June 17, 20140

Search for abducted teens faces complicated political landscape

By Ben Sales, JTA World NewsTEL AVIV (JTA) -- Since the three teenagers were abducted last week, Israel's goals have been simple: Find them and punish

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June 17, 20140

Israeli-Arab Knesset member says kidnappers are not ‘terrorists’

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers are not terrorists."They are people that cannot see a

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June 16, 20140

Families of abducted Israeli teens refuse to succumb to despair

By JNS.org As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair de

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June 13, 20140

World Cup combines love for soccer and faith

As the World Cup begins its first week of intense competition, a group of Argentinian Jews are not just focusing on the soccer fields of Brazil, but

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June 12, 20140

Bitcoin makes aliyah: Cryptocurrency finds Israeli fans

By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Blocks away from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the headquarters of two major banks, in the cor

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June 10, 20140

Palestinian professor who took students to Auschwitz resigns over fallout

By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY] — The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group

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June 10, 20140

Israel elects new president: Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin beats out four competitors

Linda Gradstein/The Media Line Israel’s 120-seat parliament today chose long-time Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country’s next president wh

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June 9, 20140

Israel looks to enshrine country as a “Jewish state”

By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israel has no constitution. The reason, according to local lore, is that the secular majority and the ultra-Orth

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June 9, 20140

‘Oldest man’ and Holocaust survivor passes

The oldest man alive of record has passed at 111. Alexander Imich was a Holocaust survivor born in Poland in 1903 who lived through a Soviet Gulag and

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June 6, 20140

U.S. neo-Nazis lose Canadian sympathizer’s estate

TORONTO (JTA) -- A Canadian judge has invalidated the will of a man who bequeathed his estate to a U.S. neo-Nazi group. A court in New Brunswick ru

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