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December 11, 2014
JWT’s ‘Not That Jewish’ offers the group’s latest fresh, female voice
“Not That Jewish,” an autobiographical one-woman show with comedian Monica Piper, recalls Billy Crystal’s similarly heartfelt “700 Sundays.”
U.S. – Israel not in crisis, but…
The strain in US-Israel ties is one of the key issues in the Israel election campaign – and rightfully so. But if you glance at US media during the last couple of months, you’d think the relations have never been worse.
19th Knesset’s dying wish: Drive Africans from Israel
One hour before the 19th Israeli Knesset, or parliament, dissolved forever on Dec. 8, its members made a last-ditch effort to save Holot, the “open” desert prison they created one year prior to detain undocumented Eritrean and Sudanese immigrants.
U.S. House passes $1.1 trillion government funding bill
The House of Representatives passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill late on Thursday to fund most federal agencies through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
Key Golden Globe Award film nominations
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday announced nominations for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards.
What Ferguson can learn from LAPD’s rehabilitation
In recent weeks, race relations have dominated national news in the United States, carried by a wave of incidents of striking similarity: A white male police officer kills an unarmed black man; his community grieves over the injustice.