It\’s called Summer U, but most of the more than 500 young Jews who attend the European Union of Jewish Students\’ largest annual event don\’t come for the seminars.
Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may have missed:
Demonstrations on Sept. 3 by more than 400,000 Israelis calling for social justice represented a powerful climax to an unprecedented summer of protests and activism.
Terrorism and U.S. immigration policies are closely linked. We have made some progress since terrorists killed 3,000 innocent people in New York and Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, but clearly not enough.
UN, Durban iii and Israel
The Ukraine government has begun the allegedly illegal demolition of a 16th century synagogue to build a hotel.
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