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March 5, 2012
Tina Strobos, who saved Dutch Jews during the Shoah, dies
Tina Strobos, a medical student in Amsterdam during World War II who helped save more than 100 Jews from the Nazis, has died.
Young Jewish activist killed in Poland train crash
Maja Brand, a Jewish activist from Krakow, was among the 16 people killed when two trains collided in southern Poland.
Obama offers Netanyahu assurances over Iran
President Barack Obama, aiming to head off any premature Israeli strike on Iran, sought to assure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that the United States would always \”have Israel\’s back\” but said there was still time for diplomacy.
Lesbian couple can both be child’s mother, Israeli court rules
Both members of a lesbian couple who had a child together can be recognized as the child\’s mother, an Israeli court ruled.
Palestinian, 19, wounded during checkpoint protest
A Palestinian man was seriously wounded during a protest that became violent at a West Bank checkpoint.
Orthodox school falls short in Texas tournament
The Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston lost, 46-42, to Abilene Christian in the 2A private and parochial boys basketball state championship game.
Obama and Netanyahu will meet under the shadow of Iran and their own histories
As if their own fraught history and the prospect of a nuclear Iran weren’t enough, Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu will bring to their meeting on Monday each nation’s vexing and at times self-contradictory relationship with war.
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