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June 16, 2010
Haredim riot in Jaffa over excavations
Hundreds of haredim rioted in Jaffa, attacking police officers with bricks and rocks, over an archeological dig.
Fight for kids
Last week, Los Angeles voters followed a long-time tradition of generosity toward public education with a majority \”yes\” vote for Measure E, which would have provided emergency funding for neighborhood schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. But the 53 percent the measure garnered was nowhere near the two-thirds vote required by law to pass the funding initiative. We must now look elsewhere for the funds to bridge our children through the worst economic times since the Great Depression. That includes leaving no line item unexamined in an effort to eke out funds for our classrooms.
Stopping torture needs unswerving commitment
A recent report by Physicians for Human Rights has found that in the period after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government engaged military and civilian health professionals in “human research and experimentation on prisoners in U.S. custody.” Appalled by these findings, a number of religious leaders representing the National Religious Coalition Against Torture have joined the growing chorus of American voices demanding that Congress establish a commission of inquiry to determine how this could happen in a democracy — and how to ensure that it never happens again.\n
Israeli soldier facing charges in Gaza war shootings
An Israeli soldier is facing charges in the shooting deaths of a Palestinian mother and daughter during the Gaza war.
Turkish group ready for new flotilla
A Turkish humanitarian group that purportedly has ties to terrorism said it will send another flotilla to break the Gaza blockade.\n
Op-Ed: Repairing a world shattered by Agent Orange
The Vietnam War looms large in America’s collective memory. Yet for most of us, that’s where the war remains: in memory. Not so for the Vietnamese.\n
In Venice, a Jewish disconnect between locals and visitors
It was a Friday afternoon in the heart of the historic Venice Ghetto, and I was chatting with the city\’s chief rabbi, Elia Riccheti, when his cellphone beeped.
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