West Bank – The Jewish Federation Community News (formerly Jewish Sound)

February 13, 20150

Rachel Corrie’s family loses civil appeal in Israel’s Supreme Court seeking damages

By JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision on civil damages in the case of U.S. peace activis

December 4, 20140

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two shoppers outside a West Bank supermarket were stabbed by an assailant in what police are treating as a terrorist attack. The

December 1, 20140

By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org Settlements or Jewish communities? West Bank or Judea and Samaria? East Jerusalem or eastern Jerusalem? Those are som

November 3, 20140

By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- SodaStream, the Israeli at-home seltzer machine company, announced last week that it would b

September 24, 20140

By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound Last October, America’s favorite travel guru Rick Steves left for Israel with one goal: To “show bot

June 26, 20140

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

May 22, 20140

By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line ABU DIS - Hala Kanaan recalls her disappointment at being one year too young to cast a ballot in the 2006 Pal

May 19, 20140

JTA reports today that six Israeli runners were excluded from the West Bank portion of a regional long-distance peace run, which ended Monday. Led b