Brett Kline, Author at Jewish Journal

Arava Institute boosts hopes of environmentalists in Middle East

November 16, 2007

The Arava Institute has about 40 students, including three Palestinians from the West Bank and 10 Jordanians. They all live and study at the kibbutz center on Kibbutz Ketura, about 25 miles north of Eilat. The institute is under construction to house up to 100 students in the near future. The 10-year-old institute has graduated more than 400 students from its yearlong program. It receives funding from the Jewish National Fund and other American Jewish groups and donors. Among the graduates is the son of Jordanian Prime Minister Ma\’roof Al-Bakeet.

King Solomon’s copper mine may be reopened

September 14, 2007

King Solomon would be paying close attention to the Mexican flag flying over the yellow sliding gate in front of the rocky desert hills just south of the Timna Park Reserve in southern Israel.

French railway lawsuits divide plaintiffs and country’s Jewish groups

October 19, 2006

Alain Lipietz, a French deputy in the European Parliament whose father and uncle were rounded up and sent to a holding area during the war, won a cash indemnity worth about $77,000 from the SNCF — the railway is appealing the case. More than 1,000 people, both Jews and non-Jews, have filed similar claims since the Lipietz case in Toulouse last summer.

French Views Split on Halimi’s Murder

March 9, 2006

Some French remain convinced that the barbaric torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew, was not an anti-Semitic hate crime.
The kidnap murder has been declared an anti-Semitic act by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy but also a violent crime whose motive was money. Since Halimi was found abandoned in a suburban train station Feb. 13 and died on the way to the hospital, the affair has been the talk of France.

French Rally Against Jew’s Torture Death

March 2, 2006

Until last week, officials and detectives investigating the case said they were not linking it to anti-Semitism. But in a turnaround, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told a Jewish communal gathering last week that officials had decided to treat the case as an act of anti-Semitism.

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Brett Kline

Arava Institute boosts hopes of environmentalists in Middle East

King Solomon’s copper mine may be reopened

French railway lawsuits divide plaintiffs and country’s Jewish groups

French Views Split on Halimi’s Murder

French Rally Against Jew’s Torture Death

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