Noga Tarnopolsky
By Noga Tarnopolsky
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News American Killed By Israeli Bulldozer, As Civilian Deaths Mount
JERUSALEM — In any other week, the death of Rachel Corrie would have touched off furious international shock waves. A blond, attractive 23-year-old American college student, Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer last Sunday while she stood with a group of fellow peace activists trying to stop a home demolition in…
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News Americans Killed in Attacks Traveled Uncommon Paths
Three American citizens residing in Israel lost their lives in two separate terrorist attacks during the last week. Abigail Litle, 14, a Haifa eighth grader, was killed when the No. 37 bus she was riding after school blew up last Wednesday. A 20-year-old Hamas militant named Mahmoud Hamdan Kawasme of Hebron had detonated a bomb…
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News Agency Raps Chief Rabbinate Over Conversion Policy
JERUSALEM — The Jewish Agency for Israel, the quasi-governmental body that oversees immigration to Israel, is investigating claims that the Israeli Chief Rabbinate is unduly blocking thousands of Russians from converting to Judaism. At their board of governors meeting last week, leaders of the Jewish Agency for Israel voted to create a high-powered committee to…
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News Argentina Faces a Suit Over Probe Of Bombing
Despairing of the criminal trial which has dragged out for more than eight years, family members of some of the 85 victims killed in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires have filed a civil suit against the Republic of Argentina. The suit charges that by failing to investigate the 1992…
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News Amid Intifada’s Violence, a Flurry of Diplomatic Moves
JERUSALEM — The 29-month-old intifada continued to reap a harvest of blood this week, with fighting ranging inside the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. But the violence came as a surprising complement to a flurry of Israeli and Palestinian diplomatic moves. An Israeli delegation flew to London Monday to attend two separate conferences:…
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News French Rabbi Denies Report He Stabbed Self
JERUSALEM — The strange case of the assault on French Rabbi Gabriel Farhi turns ever stranger. Early in the evening of Friday, January 3, Farhi called the police to say he had been stabbed by a helmeted man screaming “God is great” in Arabic as he prepared to enter his small Paris synagogue. Later on,…
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News Secular Shinui Parties, While Leftists Taste Sour Grapes
JERUSALEM — The left wing was never very big here in the Holy City, but these days it is very small. Most days, you can find much of it ensconced at Gaffen, a wine emporium-cum-coffee shop on Emek Refaim Street, the main drag in the trendy German Colony. On Tuesday, Election Day, wine was being…
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News Officials: U.S., Israel Readying Call for Palestinian Statehood
JERUSALEM — Israel and the United States are preparing a new joint peace initiative for possible release following Israel’s January 28 general election, the Forward has learned. The initiative, details of which are still being ironed out in high-level, behind-the-scenes talks, would reportedly include a joint American-Israeli call for the establishment of a “demilitarized Palestinian…
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