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March 19, 2010  RSS feed
World News
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Change may be last chance for embattled Jewish Agency
Peoplehood vs. aliyah, spiritual status?
NEW YORK (JTA) — Natan Sharansky knows he’s disturbing the status quo. Days before the most recent meeting of the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sharansky, its relatively new chair, declared that the agency’s traditional mission had outlived its usefulness. More...
Nobel Laureate Wiesel calls for Ahmadinejad to be arrested for crimes against humanity
By ROBERT GREEN Jewish Press

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be arrested for crimes against humanity, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel said during an appearance in St. Petersburg on March 11. “This man wants nuclear weapons. He wants these nuclear weapons to destroy the Jewish state and kill again 6 million Jews,” said Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner. More...

Despite strong ADL objections, school prayer bill gets through House committee
By ROBERT GREEN Jewish Press

A bill which critics fear might permit prayers at public high school sports events and other activities has won preliminary approval by a Florida legislative committee despite strong opposition from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). More...

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