Rihanna tweets and deletes #FreePalestine: A new trend?
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
Another celeb has tweeted, then promptly deleted #FreePalestine.
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July 15, 2014
Fear of the apocalypse and Edan Lepucki’s ‘California’
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
What explains the success of California? Fear of the apocalypse.
Judge finds accused Boston bomber friend’s words to FBI voluntary
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bombing suspect did not speak involuntarily when telling FBI agents about the removal of a laptop and backpack from the suspect\’s room and his statements are admissible as evidence, a U.S. judge said on Tuesday.
At summer camps and trauma centers, Beersheba students facing rockets with locals
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
During Israel’s conflict with Hamas in 2009, Eli Nachmani, already using a wheelchair, injured his leg when a rocket hit this southern Israeli city.
Accused Boston bomber spoke of martyrdom before attack, FBI says
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told his friends about martyrdom and bomb-building over lunch before the attacks last year, an FBI agent testified on Friday in the trial of one of the friends for obstruction.
Gaza conflict sidelines Abbas, but U.S. still betting on Palestinian leader
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
Mahmoud Abbas has been sitting on the sidelines of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, with little influence over its outcome.
Henry Kissinger, 91, undergoes heart surgery in New York
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger underwent heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Tuesday and was resting comfortably, hospital officials said.
They’re attacking us with missiles
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
It\’s been a week since we were first herded into a bomb shelter at the Hartman Institute in Israel, and now that I\’m sitting in the lounge at the airport in Amman and am finished with my teaching program, I have some time to reflect on the experience.
Brooklyn baby named for three murdered Israeli teens
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
A Brooklyn baby was named Eyal Gilad Naftali in memory of the three murdered Israeli teens.\n
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