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May 21, 2015
Israeli think tank ponders bilateral relations
After President Barack Obama’s March 19 statement that he was going to “reassess” policy options following the pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) began convening a comprehensive task force to chart the future of U.S.-Israel relations.
Moving and Shaking: Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, David Myers and Richard Sandler
A red carpet ceremony and a screening of “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” kicked off the 10th annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) on April 30 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Univ. of California alumni call for steps to curb campus anti-Semitism
More than 500 alumni of the University of California called on the system’s president and Board of Regents to address the “rising tide of anti-Jewish bigotry at the UC.”
Commemorating Professor Wistrich: A Jewish Scholar Concerned With the Bigger Picture
Around-the-clock cleanup effort under way on oil-fouled California beach
Santa Barbara– Cleanup teams labored on Thursday for a third day to remove patches of crude petroleum that stained a California beach and fouled offshore waters from a pipeline rupture that may rank as the biggest oil spill to hit the Santa Barbara coastline in more than four decades.
Islamic State says in full control of Syria’s Palmyra after westward advance
Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic city of Palmyra in Syria.
Lieberman calls two-state supporters ‘autistic’
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s former foreign minister, called supporters of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict “autistic.”
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