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Breaking News Women of the Wall Leader Arrested for Carrying a Torah Scroll
Hoffman gave her first interview following her arrest with The Sisterhood’s Elana Sztokman. The interview will appear on The Sisterhood shortly. Jerusalem Police on Monday arrested the leader of the Women of the Wall group for carrying a Torah scroll while praying at the Western Wall, Army Radio reported. Anat Hoffman, the women’s prayer group…
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Breaking News Gadhafi’s Son Sends Humanitarian Aid Ship To Break Gaza Blockade
Organizers of Libyan charity expect Hope cargo ship to set out from Greece later Friday with 2,000 tons of aid and ‘a number of supporters’, according to AFP. The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has organized a humanitarian boat to sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip in effort to break Israel’s naval blockade…
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Breaking News Barak to Discuss Direct Talks With Palestinian PM
Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed on Wednesday that he was to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the coming days. At a joint press conference with U.S. envoy to the region George Mitchell, Barak said that during their meeting, the first in five months, he and Fayyad would discuss education and economic issues. “The…
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Breaking News Court Overturns Prison Sentences for Mothers in Israeli School Segregation Case
The High Court on Tuesday overturned prison sentences for ultra-Orthodox women charged with contempt for violating an order to reintegrate a girls’ seminary in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel. In a dramatic ruling last week, judges demanded that Ashkenazi Jewish parents who refused to let their daughters attend classes with Sephardis must return their…
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Breaking News Polish President, Friend of Israel and ‘Promoter of Peace,’ Dies in Plane Crash
Dozens of top Israeli officials sent their condolences Saturday to the Polish people after Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed as his plane crashed on approach to Smolensk airport in western Russia, along with his wife and top Polish officials. “We share in the heavy grief of the Polish people over the death of their…
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Breaking News Bibi: Israel Working To Close Gap With U.S.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he has not yet worked out his differences with Washington over a disputed construction project in East Jerusalem, signaling a continued deadlock in the U.S. push to restart Mideast peace talks. Netanyahu said the sides are still trying to find a solution but defended his government’s contentious construction that…
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Breaking News Report: Bibi, Obama Will Meet Tuesday in D.C.
Israeli officials have confirmed that United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, amid growing tension over Israel’s recent announcement to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, Fox news reported on Friday. Netanyahu is due to depart for the U.S. on Sunday, where he was initially…
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Breaking News Ultra-Nationalist Israelis to Bar Refaeli: Don’t Marry Leo
Jewish extremists have urged supermodel Bar Refaeli not to marry her actor boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio, because it would dilute the Jewish race, according to media reports. In a letter to Refaeli, far-rightist Baruch Marzel wrote on behalf of nationalist group Lehava, which aims to fight assimilation among Jews: “It is not by chance that you…
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