Sold Marseille synagogue to become mosque
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
A synagogue in the center of the French city of Marseille was sold to a Muslim association that is planning to turn it into a mosque.
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April 26, 2016
Driverless cars could save lives, kill businesses
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
The automotive and tech companies pursuing the driverless car share a utopian belief: Autonomous vehicles will benefit society, eventually saving most of the nearly 33,000 people each year killed in road accidents in America alone.
Three Palestinians arrested in plan to carry out Passover attack
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
Three West Bank Palestinians, including two teenagers, were arrested for allegedly planning to carry out a Passover terror attack on Israelis.
New documentary asks if we’re ready to laugh at the Holocaust
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
In “The Last Laugh,” a new documentary about humor and the Holocaust (you read that right), the comedian Judy Gold tells this joke: If the Nazis forced her to stand naked on a line with other women, would she hold her stomach in?
Maryland’s wild primary and other snapshots from the ‘other’ Super Tuesday
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
Maryland goes to the polls Tuesday – one of five states where the two remaining candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the three in the Republican race are facing off.
British Labour lawmaker apologizes for call to relocate Israelis to US
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
A British Labour Party lawmaker who apologized for “for any offense” caused by a Facebook post in 2014 that called for the relocation of Israelis to the United States has resigned her post as private secretary to a shadow chancellor.\n
Young Palestinians skeptical of negotiations and supportive of violence, poll finds
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
The overwhelming majority of young Palestinians believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through negotiations.
Israeli-American coach David Blatt reportedly on potential list for Lakers post
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
David Blatt, the Israeli American who was fired this season as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, reportedly is under consideration for the same post with the Los Angeles Lakers.
30 years on, Ukrainians remember victims of Chernobyl disaster
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of theChernobyl nuclear disaster which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system.
Two Jewish visitors removed from Temple Mount for bowing in prayer
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
Muslim worshippers became violent on the Temple Mount on Tuesday, after two male Jewish visitors bowed down in prayer, a violation of the visiting rules.
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