Pro-Palestinian protesters keep Israeli cargo ship from unloading in Calif.
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
Pro-Palestinian protesters prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at a California port.
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August 18, 2014
Missouri governor lifts Ferguson curfew as National Guard called in
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon lifted the curfew for the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on Monday and began deploying National Guard troops to help quell days of rioting and looting spurred by the fatal shooting of a black unarmed teenager by a white policeman.
As school resumes, how to talk to children about the Gaza war
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
With the new school year nearly upon us, Jewish educational leaders are scrambling to prepare their teachers to discuss this summer’s Gaza War.
Where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ at summer camp
Rebecca Spence
August 18, 2014
On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage one by one to perform poems they had composed on the theme of identity.
Interview with Pastor John Hagee, founder of ‘Christians United for Israel’
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
Last month Christians United for Israel (CUFI) – the largest pro-Israel organization in America with nearly 1.8 million members (and 1.2 million Facebook followers – 15 times as many as AIPAC) – held its ninth annual Washington Summit, with 4,800 delegates from all 50 states.
Brian Schatz survives Hawaii Senate primary
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii narrowly survived a Democratic primary challenge to win the party nomination.\n
U.S. envoy to U.N. slams Human Rights Council’s Gaza panel
Julie Bien
August 18, 2014
Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, criticized the world body’s panel created to investigate the recent conflict in Gaza.
In Ferguson, echoes of Gaza?
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
A summer of global turmoil has culminated in nightmarish scenes from Ferguson, Mo., a St. Louis suburb torn apart by protests after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.
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