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January 12, 2015
BBC Reporter Sorry for Saying Palestinians ‘Suffer at Jewish Hands’
BBC reporter Tim Willcox apologized after saying at the Paris unity march on television that Palestinians “suffer hugely at Jewish hands.”
Gaps in Israeli and Palestinian health care
On average, Israelis live ten years longer than Palestinians, and Israel spends ten times as much money as the Palestinian Authority does.
Charlie Hebdo’s next cover will feature Muhammad, defying attackers
Up to 3 million copies of Charlie Hebdo could hit newsstands this week, dwarfing its usual print run of 60,000, in response to soaring demand for the first edition of the satirical weekly since last week\’s deadly attacks by Islamist militants.
Soul food: Aspiring haredi cooks train for restaurant jobs
Five haredi Orthodox men are standing around a large wooden table crowded with bowls of chopped tomato, garlic, carrots and greens, their ritual fringes poking out from under their aprons. Each is wielding a large chef’s knife.
For embattled French Jews, mixed feelings about call to move to Israel
French Jews are feeling embattled. Arsonists have targeted their synagogues, terrorists have attacked their schools and shops, and, with only a few exceptions, French society has not united behind them to stop the assaults and harassment.
France’s wake-up call
The kosher supermarket was chosen deliberately. Men, women and children were shopping and preparing for Shabbat. Only two days before the attack, terrorists had left 10 of the best-known satirical journalists and cartoonists dead at Charlie Hebdo.
No Americans in Paris: U.S. absence draws criticism at home
A Republican U.S. senator lambasted the White House on Monday for not sending a top American official to a Paris unity march after deadly Islamic militant attacks in that city, and a New York tabloid headline screamed \”You let the world down.\”
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