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african
No easy way out for African migrants in Israeli desert detention
Jewish Journal
February 14, 2014
A compound of one-story buildings deep in the southern Israeli desert is now home to some 400 African migrants who face the prospect of being held in custody indefinitely.
Protesting African migrants sent back to Israeli detention center
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention center in protest against a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely.
A principal’s speech to high school students
Dennis Prager
July 2, 2013
Three years ago, I wrote a version of this column. Because it went viral — often listing me as the high school principal who actually gave this speech! — I am revising it and publishing it here. I believe that if every school principal gave this speech, America would be a better place.
Agreement reached on African migrants at Israeli border
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2012
Israel said it will allow two female African migrants — one who is pregnant — and a teen to enter the country, and turn over more than a dozen other refugees who have been trapped at its border to Egyptian authorities.
African migrants stuck at Egypt-Israel border
Jewish Journal
September 4, 2012
A group of some 20 African migrants is trapped between Israel\’s border fence with Egypt and Israeli soldiers who have been ordered not to let them in.
Ethiopian-Israeli Jews, mistaken for African migrant workers, feel racism’s pain
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2012
When violent riots against African migrant workers erupted in south Tel Aviv recently, a mob attacked Hanania Wanda, a Jew of Ethiopian origin, mistaking him for a Sudanese migrant worker.
South Tel Aviv quiet but tense
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2012
South Tel Aviv remained calm but tense Friday after recent violence aimed at African immigrants.
Illegal African migrants killed crossing to Israel
Jewish Journal
August 16, 2010
Six African migrants attempting to cross into Israel were killed by their smugglers and by Egyptian forces.
Hope breeds strength
Raphael J. Sonenshein
November 6, 2008
The French now understand that Obama\’s election will set off a long overdue debate about the status of minority communities within their own nation. Why, people are asking, are there not more minority members of the national legislative bodies?
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