A resolution aimed at boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel could gain majority support at this week’s National Conference of South Africa\’s ruling African National Congress party.
More than 400 American Jewish clergy asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go ahead with new construction in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Ma\’ale Adumim.
In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws.
Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday, accompanied by police and counselors to help them cope with grief and fear after a gunman\’s rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school and altered attitudes about gun control in Washington.
Veronique Pozner remembered her son Noah as a rambunctious, video-game loving \”little man,\” a boy with a perpetual smile and twinkly blue eyes who dreamed of becoming a doctor, a soldier and manager of a factory that makes tacos — his favorite food.
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