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Hamas Sentences Man to Death by Hanging for ‘Collaborating With Israel’ 27 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
A court in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has sentenced a man to death by hanging for “collaborating with Israel,” Ma’an News Agency reported Tuesday. Under Palestinian law, “collaboration with Israel” i...
Report: Yeshiva University Insufficiently Responded to Sex Abuse Claims Before 2001 27 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
JNS.org - The findings of an investigation commissioned by Yeshiva University (YU) said the school lacked an “appropriate response” to multiple sex abuse allegations before 2001. “The investigativ...
Report: Israeli, U.S., and Jordanian Forces Operating in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
JNS.org -American, Israeli and Jordanian commandos are currently deployed on the ground in Syria, training and operating alongside the rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Fre...
Pope Disturbed by ‘Terrible Images’ of Violence in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
JNS.org - During at mass at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis I said he was disturbed by the “terrible images these days” coming out of Syria and he called on the international community to f...
French Minister: EU Can ‘Consider Revising’ ’67 Lines Boycott 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
JNS.org - The new European Union (EU) directive which bars the bloc’s member nations from developing future financial cooperation with Israeli communities beyond the 1967 lines can be reviewed and rev...
U.K.’s Galloway Claims Israel Gave Al Qaeda Chemical Weapons 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
JNS.org - Anti-Israel British Member of Parliament (MP) George Galloway accused Israel of giving Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria chemical weapons in a recent interview with Iranian Press TV. “If there h...
Report: Efforts to Mend Israel-Turkey Ties Fail 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
JNS.org - Government officials have signaled that Israel’s efforts to normalize its diplomatic relations with Turkey have failed, Israel Hayom reported. Israel-Turkey relations soured in May 2010,...
Arguments of heart and mind: CAMERA gives students tools to counter anti-Israel bias 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
By Diana Burmistrovich/JNS.org Click photo to download. Caption: Participants of the Aug. 18-20 CAMERA Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Conference in Boston. Credit: Samantha Rose Mandeles f...
The rabbi and the rapper 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
By Judy Lash Balint/JNS.org Click photo to download. Caption: Nissim (left), formerly known in Seattle rap circles as D. Black, with Rabbi Simon Benzaquen. Credit: Judy Lash Balint. SEATTLE—Most Ort...
Is Hamas the loser in game of Middle East upheaval? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
By Sean Savage/JNS.org In the shifting sands of the tumultuous Middle East, Hamas, the Palestinian terror group in control of the Gaza Strip, has found itself in an increasingly precarious positio...
