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Baton Rouge flood: How you can help
Jewish Journal
August 16, 2016
A flood is devastating Baton Rouge, La., and the organized Jewish world is lining up support for the rescue and relief effort in the region.
Blast at market in northeastern Nigeria’s Yola kills 32
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2015
A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.
Palestinian hunger striker loses consciousness in Israeli hospital
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2015
A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel\’s new force-feeding law.
Survivor: Betty Hyatt
Jane Ulman
September 3, 2013
“Mommy, mommy.” Five-year-old Betty Hyatt, then Betty Prins, frightened by the unfamiliar low, rumbling noises in the sky, jumped out of bed and ran screaming for her mother. It was early morning on Friday, May 10, 1940, the day she and her father were planning to travel to Holland to visit relatives.
Six Syrian rebels hospitalized in Israel returned to Syria
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2013
Six wounded Syrian rebels who were treated in an Israeli hospital after being wounded in their country\’s civil war were repatriated.
Chanukah lessons in a post-Sandy world
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 5, 2012
Late last month, I was in Breezy Point, the isolated beachfront neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., that has become an iconic image for the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
Syria approves new constitution amid bloodshed
Jewish Journal
February 28, 2012
Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs as President Bashar al-Assad\’s government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum derided as a sham by his critics at home and abroad.
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