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  • US Lawmakers Pledge to Back Israel Against Iran

    The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a resolution affirming America's firm opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions, and pledging full support for Israel in the event of an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The chance to slam Iran’s government and speak up for Israel brought a rare moment of complete bipartisan unity to the Senate. Republican ...

  • Turkey translates Prophets sayings for 21st Century

    ANKARA - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious calls asking about Western media reports they would edit a "radical" new set of hadiths, ...

  • Sarkozy Hits Out at Europe Over Syria

    Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Israel, hit out at Europe on Wednesday for failing to act in the wake of the ongoing civil war in ...

  • Minister Ariel Well Return to Gush Katif

    Housing Minister Uri Ariel expressed hope on Wednesday that Israel will eventually return to Gush Katif, from which it unilaterally withdrew in 2005 – a move which resulted in hundreds of missile barrages aimed at southern Israel and two IDF operations that attempted to stop ...

  • Palestine urges UN Security Council to end provocations by Israel

    Palestine has asked the UN Security Council to press Israel to end its "provocations," including restricting access to holy sites in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian envoy told reporters on ...

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Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane is a historical-romantic flight of fancy that takes a nugget of verifiable history and poses the intriguing question, What if Jane Austen had lived a Jane Austen novel? English scholars and literary enthusiasts have long admired Austen's socially astute novels and ... ...

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  • JA chairman Sharansky Independent probe needed

    The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.As agency chairman, Sharansky has a seat on the board of the conference, which was established in 1951 to secure restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs from the German ...

  • Berman Claims Conference staff unaware of fraud

    Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman continued to deny having any knowledge of fraud being conducted within his organization prior to 2009 - only hours before JTA reported on Wednesday that he and other senior executives had launched a probe into the matter in 2001.According to documents obtained by JTA, Berman's law firm, Kaye Scholer LLP, launched a 2001 probe that failed to ...

  • New IAEA Report Iran Still Expanding Nuclear Program

    Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear program, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new UN atomic agency report showed Wednesday, according to ...

  • Oklahoma Teacher Shielded Students Despite Injury

    A heroic teacher who shielded her students from Oklahoma’s tornado this week is recovering in the hospital after the metal leg of a desk speared her in the ...

  • Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks

    Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...

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