Thousands of French Jews check out aliyah
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2012
Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris.
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May 7, 2012
No, Adam Yauch wasn’t a yeshiva boy, but we can still claim him
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2012
As a student at an all-girls day school in Brooklyn, the first thing I learned about the Beastie Boys turned out to be untrue.\nAccording to a yeshiva urban legend, two of the founding members of the Beastie Boys had attended The Marsha Stern Talmudic Academy in upper Manhattan. Some MTA students even claimed to know where the hip-hop pioneers had tagged the school with their handles.
House subcommittee set to OK $1 billion for Israel anti-missile programs
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee is set to approve nearly $1 billion for Israeli and joint Israeli-U.S. missile defense programs.
OPINION: Don’t know much about history
Marty Kaplan
May 7, 2012
The reason that our financial system isn’t going to crash and burn again, the reason that taxpayers won’t have to fork over another trillion dollars of no-strings-attached bailout money, is – well, I forget.
Israeli court orders removal of settlement houses
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2012
Israel\’s Supreme Court rejected on Monday a government request to delay the demolition of five apartment buildings in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, ruling the houses must be removed by July 1.
Jewish reaction mixed to Hollande victory in France
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2012
Jewish reaction was mixed to the election of the Socialist Party\’s Francois Hollande as the president of France.
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