El Al to charge for second bag on Israel trips
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
El Al Airlines soon will be charging $70 for the second piece of luggage checked on coach seats to and from Israel.\n
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October 3, 2011
School battle escalates religious clash in Jerusalem suburb
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
This time it started with cries of “Sluts!” and “Shiksas!” and the throwing of eggs and bags of excrement at young girls who attend a recently opened Modern Orthodox elementary school in this Jerusalem suburb.
Ukraine marks Babi Yar massacre anniversary
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
Ukraine marked the 70th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar, one of the deadliest of the Holocaust.
Tel Aviv tent cities evacuated
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
The tent cities remaining in Tel Aviv from this summer\’s social justice protests were evacuated.
Report: Biden prevented Pollard clemency
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
President Obama was considering clemency for Jonathan Pollard until Vice President Joseph Biden prevented it, The New York Times reported.
Arab League calls for more Palestinian aid
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
The Arab League called on its member states to offer more financial aid to the Palestinians in response to a report that the United States has frozen $200 million in assistance.
Make the shofar blast a call to serve
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
Those who observe the Jewish High Holidays have begun a period of intense introspection and “judgment.” On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, piercing shofar blasts will conclude a 25-hour fast, we will set a course toward making good our obligations to others.
Occupy K Street
Marty Kaplan
October 3, 2011
It’s premature to give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Occupy Wall Street kids. But it also may be too soon to blow them off as clueless hipsters “with nowhere to go,” as New York Times columnist Charles Blow did, calling the two weeks “a festival of frustrations, a collective venting session with little edge or urgency.”
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