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March 29, 2011

Tunisia condemns Israeli assistance offer to its Jews

Jewish Journal March 29, 2011

Tunisia\’s government condemned an Israeli government decision to offer extra financial assistance to Tunisian Jews wishing to immigrate to Israel. The approval of the new program amounts to interference in Tunisia\’s domestic affairs and \”an attempt by Israel to tarnish the post-revolutionary image of Tunisia,\” Tunisia\’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, the Associated Press reported. Under the plan approved at a Cabinet meeting Sunday, Tunisian immigrants will receive special financial assistance of more than $9,000 in addition to the usual aid provided to new immigrants.

Knesset approves citizenship law

Jewish Journal March 29, 2011

Israel\’s Knesset approved a law that would permit revoking citizenship rights of Israelis convicted of terrorism, espionage or treason. The law, which passed late Monday night by a vote of 37 to 11, is opposed by many Arab-Israeli groups and Israeli human rights groups on the grounds that it is designed to delegitimize Arab-Israeli citizens.

Palestinians detained in connection with Itamar murders

Jewish Journal March 29, 2011

Dozens of residents of a Palestinian village near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar were detained by Israeli soldiers. The detained residents of Hawara village, located close to the West Bank settlement where five members of a single family were murdered two and a half weeks ago, were questioned, fingerprinted and given DNA tests, the Palestinian news agency Ma\’an reported Tuesday.

For Marla Gilson, leukemia sparks massive Jewish bone marrow drive—and fight with employer

Jewish Journal March 29, 2011

Marla Gilson found out in January that she had acute leukemia. By March, she learned that her disease had cost her not only her good health, but her job leading an advocacy group for the Jewish aged. In quick succession, friends, colleagues and acquaintances in Washington’s Jewish activist community rallied to Gilson’s bedside to support her in her fight with her employer — the Association of Jewish Aging Services — and also to champion a wider cause: registering Ashkenazi Jews as potential bone marrow donors.

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