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JTA – Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.
Israel’s decision last week to suspend …
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BEN SALES
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5/9/14
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JTA – Longtime fans of the Chicago Cubs know there are a few mainstays they can expect when they visit Wrigley Field: ivy on the outfield walls, a strict no-wave policy rigorously enforced by fans and, most days, disappointing play by the hometown …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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5/9/14
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JTA – The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States decreased by 19 percent in 2013, but physical assaults against Jews increased, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
In its Annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, the ADL …
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4/24/14
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JTA – The United States is the only industrialized country in the world not to mandate paid maternity leave, and only 11 percent of private-sector American employees have access to it.
But a growing list of Jewish nonprofits are now offering …
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JULIE WIENER
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4/24/14
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What can be accomplished during a day-and-a-half trip to our nation’s capital? On April 30 and May 1, a delegation of Rhode Islanders, as part of the Community Relations Council Washington D.C. Mission, will find out.
Upon arriving in …
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4/10/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, making her the first woman and the third consecutive Jewish top U.S. government banker. Yellen was confirmed in a 56-26 vote on Monday. January 6. She …
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1/17/14
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Carl Feldman will be speaking on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his background, the power of the Presidency, his attitude toward the Holocaust and his larger dreams of a world at peace.
Carl Feldman was born in Providence in 1937 and is a graduate …
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Arthur C. Norman
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11/7/13
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NEW YORK (JTA) – As the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination approaches, we Jews have our own special reasons to mourn.
The conventional community memory of Kennedy would be enough by itself. JFK overcame the legacy of his …
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Ira Stoll
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11/7/13
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Janet Yellen is soft-spoken, tough, methodological, flexible – and Jewish.
President Obama’s announcement last week that he had tapped Yellen, 67, to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve made news in …
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Ron Kampeas
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11/7/13
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(JTA) – Everyone knows that an ocean separates Israel and the United States. Yet after three days in New York recently, I realized how big that ocean really is.
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Nurit Canetti
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8/30/13
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