Following repeated calls to kill Jews in protest rallies in The Hague, representatives of the Dutch Jewish community urged local authorities to crack down on anti-Semitic incitement.
It\’s been 22 years since Madeleine Albright was a foreign policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, 17 years since she was America\’s ambassador to the United Nations, and 13 since she was secretary of state.
Israel agrees to 12 hour cease-fire
At 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, Bud and Judy Levin were awakened by a call from Israel to their home in Los Angeles. It was their son, Max, a 21-year-old paratrooper in the Israeli army — calling from a hospital.
Jewish community members who are critical of Operation Protective Edge, an Israel military offensive in the Hamas-controlled enclave of Gaza that has claimed approximately 800 Palestinians lives and that of more than 30 Israeli soldiers, were among those who turned out to two Los Angeles rallies on July 25.\n
An Israeli citizen who threatened to commit terrorism in Sweden after his asylum request there was denied has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Folks in the food scene love to talk about how farms build community. It’s a trope that always makes me roll my eyes a little, both because sardonicism is generally my default setting, but also because I’m skeptical that any kind of thick communal ties are likely to arise between people who happen to shop at the same farmers market or subscribe to the same Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
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