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<i>Michael Oren</i> Israel's U.S. ambassador offers to return to California university
Israel’s U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month. Michael Oren, in an open letter Monday, said he would meet with studen...
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Oren says compromise needed over Western Wall controversy
Israel’s U.S. ambassador said resolving the controversy over prayer at the Western Wall will require “compromise on everyone’s behalf.” Michael Oren, speaking Sunday night at the annual plenum of ...
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Federal authorities move to deport illegal Israeli immigrants
SEATTLE — Those attractive Israelis you may see at the mall hawking colorful beauty and hair products from the Dead Sea may not be as innocuous as they seem. Many are in the U.S. illegally...
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Women worshippers condemned at Western Wall
Men and women worshiping at the Western Wall shouted insults at women who gathered for a Rosh Chodesh prayer service. The ultra-Orthodox worshipers called the women “Nazis” and shouted other epith...
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NIF fracas: Defending Israel or destroying democracy?
JERUSALEM — A campaign against the New Israel Fund — a U.S.-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel — has sparked a fierce debate over the limits of free speech, the financ...
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<i>UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferre<br> Israel took a conciliatory tone in its reply to a report on the Gaza war by Richard Goldstone, shown here addressing the media after presenting the report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 29, 2009.</i> Israel’s reply to Goldstone suggests a more civil approach
WASHINGTON — The Goldstone wars continue, but beneath the shouting a diplomatic track has emerged. The Israeli government last week published a reply to the U.N. Human Rights Council’s report on...
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Israel expresses interest in nuclear energy
Israel announced its interest in producing electricity from nuclear energy at a conference in Paris. Syria announced the same intention at Tuesday’s conference hosted by France to promote nu...
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Shahar Pe’er reaches third round of tennis tournament in Dubai
Israel’s Shahar Pe’er reached the third round of a tennis tournament in Dubai a year after being denied a visa to compete there. Competing amid tight security, Pe’er defeated Virginia Razzano of F...
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Plug it in and go
Beginning next week, Israelis will be able to test drive the fully electric cars that are expecting to debut in Israel by March 2011. Project Better Place, which is building electric car battery r...
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Jewish-themed and Israeli films are in running for Academy Awards
Three Jewish-themed films and an Israeli film are in the running for Academy Awards. “Inglourious Basterds,” a Jewish revenge fantasy in which a squad of Jewish GIs wipes out the Nazi leadership, ...
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Involvement in arson attack leads to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira's arrest
The head of a West Bank yeshiva was arrested for his alleged involvement in an arson attack on a nearby mosque. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, one of the leaders of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the northe...
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<i>Ben Harris photo<br> Dror Vanunu, international coordinator of the Friends of Gush Katif, in a field designated to house a community of Gaza Strip evacuees. Construction on new homes has yet to begin.</i> Gush Katif evacuees still waiting for permanent homes
By Ben Harris JTA NITZAN , Israel — More than four years after her family was ejected from their home in the Gaza Strip, Karen Sarfaty lives with her husband and four of their children in a sma...
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Clinton, lawmakers pushing for peace talks without conditions
WASHINGTON — Calls are mounting in Washington for the launch of new Israeli-Palestinian talks. After meeting Jan. 8 with Jordanian and Egyptian officials in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State H...
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Saturday, 13, 2010
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Taste of Westmoreland 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The 18th Annual Taste of Westmoreland will...
Pittsburgh Public Thea... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
This Arthur Miller play about two estrange...
Pittsburgh Jewish Isra... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival Op...