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November 5, 2014
6 notes about Jews, Israel and the midterms, some of them controversial
Palestinian man kills one in Jerusalem car attack
A Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem on Wednesday in the second attack of its kind in two weeks, killing one person and fuelling concerns of another Palestinian uprising.
Tough road ahead for Obama after Republicans seize U.S. Senate
Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, dealing a punishing blow to President Barack Obama that will limit his legislative agenda and may force him to make a course correction for his last two years in office.
Restraining orders on gun possession may be a new way to stop the killing
Two more young people are dead from another school shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington this week.
Survivor: Jack Nierob
It was a beautiful winter’s night in early 1944 when Jack (then Icek) Nierob, 19, left his night-shift job in the steam room of Skarzysko’s Camp C to use the latrine, an outdoor shack near the labor camp’s barbed-wire fence.
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