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April 1, 2013
Israeli boy, soldiers injured during Land Day protests
An Israeli boy and several Israeli soldiers were injured during Israeli-Arab and Palestinian protests marking Land Day.
Pope Francis, Rome chief rabbi exchange holiday greetings
Pope Francis and Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni exchanged greetings to mark Passover and Easter.
Canada’s largest student association endorses Israel boycott
The largest student association in Canada passed a resolution endorsing the global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel.
British lawmaker sorry for blaming legal troubles on Jewish conspiracy
A British lawmaker who blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his conviction in connection with a fatal car crash apologized for his statements.
Hundreds of groups back diversity on day of Klan rally in Memphis
Around 250 communal organizations and religious groups joined the mayors of Memphis and Shelby County, Tenn., in publishing a statement supporting diversity on the day the Ku Klux Klan staged a rally in the city.
Exhibit recalls Jewish refugees and Nazi prisoners held together in Canadian prisons
When Austrian and German Jews escaped Nazism by fleeing to Britain during the 1930s, the last thing they expected was to find themselves prisoners in Canada, interred in camps with some of the same Nazis they had tried to escape back home.
Daddy’s Been Arrested
The final inch of the story turned me into an emotional puddle.
March was bloodiest month in Syria war, rights group says
March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria\’s two-year conflict, with more than 6,000 people killed, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.