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November 1, 2011
French Jewish groups call country’s UNESCO vote a betrayal
French Jewish groups said they feel betrayed by their country’s vote in favor of extending UNESCO membership to the Palestinians.
Population boom? Why 7 billion isn’t enough
I may be a rabbi who lives and works in the heart of New York City — in fact, I was just voted one of Gotham’s “hippest” — but believe it or not, I occasionally catch a glimpse of an endangered species.\n
Jon Huntsman visits the Lubavitcher rebbe’s gravesite
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman visited the New York gravesite of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Denounce violence in the name of religion, Vatican liaison says
The Vatican chief liaison to world Jewry voiced an urgent call from Pope Benedict XVI for all religious leaders to openly denounce violence in the name of religion.\n
Senior Hamas leader arrested in West Bank
Israel arrested a senior Hamas leader just two months after releasing him from prison.
The UNESCO Mess
It was bound to happen sooner or later. At some point, both the president and Congress would be faced with a clear choice between U.S. national interests and the demands made by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his powerful Washington lobby.
Palestinians say hackers hit Internet services
Hackers disrupted Palestinian Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian telecoms minister said, alleging that a foreign government was behind the interference.
Goldstone: Israel is not an ‘apartheid state’
Saying that Israel practices apartheid policies is \”unfair and inaccurate slander,\” Richard Goldstone wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times.
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