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Up to 500 migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean tragedy
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Up to 500 migrants might have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday.
The Arab-Israeli conflict: Time to move on
Jewish Journal
April 7, 2016
Palestinian refugees are the only refugees in the world who maintain and bequeath refugee status; it is time for Palestinians to be settled in the countries in which they reside.
The real victims of Syrian migrants
Danielle Berrin
January 6, 2016
We’ve all heard the fear mongering about how Syrian refugees are mostly men — which somehow makes them more susceptible to becoming terrorists, and therefore dangerous to the West.
Securing Syrian refugees’ future tied to Israel’s security
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2014
I have visited Israel many times in my life, but my most recent trip will remain seared into my memory forever.
The forgotten refugees of Ghouta, Syria
Simone Wilson
December 12, 2013
The most infamous attack over two-and-a-half years of civil war in Syria — a silent sarin gassing in the city of Ghouta that killed more than 1,500 and sent allied countries to the brink of world war — came in the night.
Israelis helping Syrian refugees in Jordan: Balancing aid and diplomacy
Simone Wilson
December 11, 2013
Mafraq is a single-story city in the desert flats of northern Jordan, built in beige and white, spiked with mosques and dotted with chalky vacant lots that suffice as soccer courts.
Chanukah in Chad
Jewish Journal
December 10, 2012
It is late into the evening, and I just remembered – tonight is the first night of Chanukah, even in the seemingly God-forsaken town of Farchana on the eastern rim of Chad.
Syria pushes world refugee total towards record, U.N. says
Jewish Journal
October 1, 2012
With tens of thousands fleeing Syria every month, the number of refugees worldwide in 2012 is set to be the highest this century, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.
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