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April 27, 2007
Arab lawmaker quits Knesset as probe begins
Israeli Arab lawmaker Azmi Bishara has abruptly ended a parliamentary career built on denouncing the Jewish state from enemy capitals and then dodging charges of sedition at home.
Seeking Holiness
Kedoshim is a lofty and powerful parsha, known as the holiness code, which the Talmud and Midrash understood to be rav gufei Torah, or encompassing the majority of the Torah, namely that this chapter is a summation of the entire Torah itself.
Briefs: Olmert; Katsav; Israel population hits 7.15 million; Neo-Nazis protest March of the Living
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Tel Aviv trauma expert assists U.S. military
An Israeli professor studying the long-term effects of war on the soldiers who fight is now sharing her knowledge with United States counterparts in an attempt to provide better therapy for American servicemen and women returning home from the battlefields of Iraq.
U.S. Jews enter debate on Armenian/Turkish history
Top Turkish officials and Turkish Jewish leaders in recent weeks have sought help from U.S. Jewish leaders to stave off an effort in the U.S. Congress to define World War I-era massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
Israelis fear anti-Semitism imported from Russia
n recent years, sporadic acts of anti-Semitism have hit Israel, most of them carried out by disaffected immigrant youths from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Although the youths came to Israel under the Law of Return, they are among those who identify not as Jews but as ethnic Russians. Under Israel\’s Law of Return, a cornerstone of Israel\’s identity as a haven for all Jews, anyone with a Jewish parent or grandparent is permitted to immigrate and be granted citizenship.
Jews laud Boris Yeltsin’s legacy
Russian Jewish leaders agree that the community should remember Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, primarily as the man who ended decades of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Russia.
City Voice: Will condo threat inspire unity among seniors?
More than 25 years ago, Los Angeles\’ senior Jewish renters joined with young progressives and persuaded a reluctant city government to adopt rent control.
Israel needs to rethink national security
Celebrations of Israel\’s 59th year of independence may be overshadowed by the Winograd Commissions\’ interim report on the political and military leadership\’s conduct during the Second Lebanon War last summer.
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