Sharon Har-noy and Adi Freid make up the only all-female Israeli skydive team in the advanced category, which includes just six teams.
Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his pioneering work on micro-credit. Through Yunus\’ leadership, tens of million of people have been brought out of poverty through micro-loans, some as low as $20.
Bill Dalati, a Syrian-born insurance agent, is running for a spot on Anaheim\’s City Council. His candidacy has come under scrutiny because of his association with a controversial organization with known links to the Hamas terror group and his participation at a virulently anti-Israel rally this past summer.
The Reform movement will soon publish a commentary on the Torah that gives the woman\’s perspective. \”The Torah: A Women\’s Commentary,\” a project of Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), the movement\’s women\’s division, is a collaboration of 80 biblical scholars, archaeologists, rabbis, cantors, theologians and poets from across the religious spectrum — all of them women who came together to present a new perspective on the Bible.
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Jewish officials are greeting the selection of Ban Ki-moon as the next U.N. secretary-general with cautious optimism.
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.
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