French parliament backs Palestinian statehood motion
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2014
France’s parliament is calling for Palestinian statehood recognition.
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French prosecutor wants six years in prison for hit-and-run driver
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2014
A Paris prosecutor demanded a six-year jail sentence on Wednesday for a French national who hit and killed an Israeli woman while driving an SUV in Tel Aviv in 2011 then fled to France to avoid prosecution.
Homemade sufganiyot recipes to brighten Chanukah celebrations
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2014
Chanukah has always been a joyful holiday for children and adults.
Israel goes to new elections
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2014
Just 20 months after the current government was sworn in, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired two of his top cabinet ministers, leading their parties to pull out of the government and the Knesset, or parliament, to vote to dissolve itself.
The life in Israel exchange, part 2: The curious case of Anglo-Israelis
Shmuel Rosner
December 3, 2014
Iran seeks post on key U.N. committee, Israel deems it ‘absurd’
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2014
Iran is seeking a senior post on a United Nations committee that decides accreditation of non-governmental organizations, a move that Israel on Tuesday compared to gangster Al Capone running the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
State Dept.: Qatar pledges not to fund Hamas
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2014
The Obama administration says it has received assurances from the Arab nation Qatar that its assistance to the Palestinians will not reach Hamas.
House votes to deny Social Security benefits to ex-Nazis
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2014
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would end Social Security payments to former Nazis.\n
U.S. Jewish groups opposing Israel’s ‘Jewish state’ law worry about consequences
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2014
It’s not unusual to hear U.S. Jewish groups speaking out against laws that discriminate and framing their protests as protecting Jewish interests.
Pending investigation, police temper claims of ‘Jewish’ motive in Paris rape
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2014
French police are tempering reports that anti-semitism was behind the rape of a 19 year-old Parisian woman following a home break in Monday night.
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