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5 Educators awarded Pomegranate Prize
Five American Jewish educators have received the Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize.
Knesset to honor Canadian who shot Parliament gunman
The Canadian Parliament’s sergeant-at-arms, who shot a gunman inside the Parliament building last month, was to be honored by Israel’s Knesset.
The David and Goliath exchange, part 2: Is it ‘Israel and Palestine’ or ‘Israel and the Arabs’?
At G.A., Jewish federations see future in more collaboration
There was the vice president of the United States, two Supreme Court justices and an Academy Award-winning actress with a compelling Jewish story.
Israelis in the U.S.A.
When your ancestors yearned for 19 centuries to return to their homeland of Israel, and you were fortunate enough to be born there but still decide to move to America, it’s natural that somewhere deep inside, you might feel a little guilty.
3 slain civil rights workers to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964 while registering black voters will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 50 years after their deaths.
Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, surfing pioneer, 93
Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, the Jewish, Stanford-educated surfing pioneer, died on Monday in Newport Beach, California at age 93.
Terminally ill Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon to donate his $100 million fortune to charity
Back in 2012, Sam Simon — best known as one of the creators of The Simpsons — was told he had terminal colon cancer and only three to six months to live.
Australia Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s protocols of Zion paranoia
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