Anat Kamm, the Israeli soldier who was jailed for turning classified Israeli military documents over to a reporter, is suing the Israeli daily Haaretz and journalist Uri Blau for revealing her identity.
A Russian-Jewish billionaire said he plans to create an international news network that will present \”real information\” about Israel. Alexander Mashkevich on Wednesday announced his intention to found a \”Jewish Al Jazeera\” during an address at the Keren Hayasod-United Israel Appeal conference in Washington, D.C.
A British lawmaker has apologized for insulting a fellow Jewish lawmaker and Labor Party member during a debate in the House of Commons. During a debate Wednesday on plans to change the law of universal jurisdiction, Gerald Kaufman turned to a lawmaker sitting next to him and said, \”Here we are, the Jews again,\” as pro-Israel lawmaker Louise Ellman rose to refute a claim by the Labor Party\’s Ann Clwyd that the lawmakers were trying to change the law — making it more difficult to issue an arrest warrant against a suspected international war criminal — to appease the Israeli government.
Because of their intense activism, Jews have been among the paper\’s most devoted readers and fiercest critics. A substantial part of the paper\’s circulation base has long been in the broad Jewish belt extending from the Westside through the West Valley.
Grass, 78, whose autobiography is due out this fall, told the Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung in an interview published last Friday that he was drafted into the Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.
The snow-capped Sierras jutted into a deeply blue sky. The hot tub bubbled away. \”Israelis don\’t want to run away when there\’s a war,\” the woman explained. \”We want to run home.\”
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\’s first state-of-the-city speech is likely to put bone and muscle on his school takeover pitch which, up till now, nearly a year into his term, has been theoretical and short on specifics. If Villaraigosa delivers what people all over town have been waiting for, a slew of interest groups will know where they stand and will begin to respond accordingly.
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