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March 21, 2012
Toulouse shooting suspect’s standoff continues [VIDEO]
The standoff in France between police and Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, stretched into its 13th hour Wednesday.
Tears flow amidst a determination for democracy
The Jewish community in New York gathered for a memorial service at the Consulate of France Tuesday afternoon. The well-attended service was organized by Rabbis Joseph Potasnik and Avi Weiss. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Senior Rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, offered the comfort of psalm and prayer.
Palestinian hunger striker in ‘mortal danger’
A Palestinian woman jailed in Israel who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month is in \”immediate mortal danger,\” a human rights group said.
U.S. HOR passes bill that would allow Israelis to qualify for E-2 treaty trader visas
Daughter’s journey to the other side of the mechitzah
Investigative journalists do not tend to make good storytellers. After all, they are trained to write in the taut prose of a daily newspaper, and they are constrained by the discipline of fact-checking. As a result, sometimes they cannot see the forest for the trees when it comes to a charming and cherished fiction that fixes itself in a family’s collective memory.
Israeli law pushes rabbinical courts on Jewish divorce decrees
Israel\’s Knesset passed a measure requiring rabbinical courts to follow up on divorce cases to ensure that the husband gives his wife a Jewish writ of divorce.
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