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May 19, 2014
U. of Calif. leaders condemn student effort to limit Israel trips
The heads of UCLA and the University of California system criticized a student-led pledge that urged candidates for student government to refuse trips to Israel sponsored by certain pro-Israel groups.
Illinois MERS patient ‘not infectious’; Florida patient released
An Illinois man who had tested positive for antibodies to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus in his blood is no longer infectious, state health officials said on Monday.
In eye of Nazi storm, Dutch Jews found unlikely refugee
In her nightmares, Tilly Walvis pictured German soldiers storming the house where she was hiding and deporting her children and the Christian couple sheltering them.
What do Rick Perry, Sean Penn, Sheldon Adelson and Chris Christie have in common?
The last time New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke at a venue attended by Sheldon Adelson, he alienated the Republican Party mega-donor and other hawkish pro-Israel Jews by referring to the West Bank as “the occupied territories.”
Pope’s entourage to Israel includes rabbi and sheik
With a rabbi and a Muslim sheik as travel companions, Pope Francis is heading to the Middle East with what he hopes will be a powerful message of interfaith respect.
In L.A., children of Holocaust survivors say ‘Never Again’ — with a gun
It’s a sunny morning in Southern California and Lea Rosenfeld, a soft-spoken, bespectacled woman who looks like a Jewish grandmother, squares her feet, faces her target and squeezes off five shots with a handgun.