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December 20, 2013
PRO/CON: Should U.S. academics boycott Israeli universities?
According to an announcement released Dec. 16, the American Studies Association (ASA), a group of some 5,000 university professors, has endorsed its national council’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities.
Scandal-battered Met Council cleared for state funding
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty will be able to continue receiving New York State funds in the wake of the scandal that has seen its former CEO charged with stealing millions from the charity.
Report: Mandela received Mossad training
Nelson Mandela received training from Israel’s Mossad in the 1960s, an Israeli government document has revealed.
Special needs programs should strive for the ‘high-hanging fruit’
Whenever a group of staffers, volunteers and funders get together in the nonprofit or governmental sectors to create a new social services program, such as anti-poverty, mental health or aging/disability, the conversation will invariably turn to the need to go after the “low-hanging fruit,” a reference to those clients who are easiest to find, assist and succeed.
Nasrallah warns Israel that Hezbollah will avenge commander’s killing
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday vowed to avenge Israel for the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut earlier this month.
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