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 | | Shams Kalboni, an Arab Israeli from Jaffa, wants to prevent an Israeli company from building apartments exclusively for religious Jews on this plot of land in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood. (Dina Kraft) | |
| As a movement to boost the Jewish presence in mixed Arab-Jewish cities gains steam, ethnic tensions rise. Read more » |
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Hadassah officials spent months trying to move past the Madoff controversy. But now the organization has been dragged back into the spotlight, thanks to a new book in which its former chief financial officer claims to have had an affair with the confessed swindler. Read more »
Editors' Picks | The New York Times profiles the man behind the Office of Special Investigations. | | The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier has a message to those who would question the Jewish/pro-Israel bona fides of Obama aides: If Rahm Emanuel is a self-hating Jew, then so am I. | | More than a dozen Jewish organizations release statements honoring the memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy. | | Two decades later, the former mistress of Claus von Bulow has a new book coming out in which she takes issue with Alan Dershowitz's account of the famous case. | | Morocco long has been viewed as a rare liberalizing Arab state, a potential bridge to a Mideast that can live peacefully with Israel. But Morocco's king has slowed democratic reforms under the banner of fighting Islamic radicalism, The New York Times reports. Is that so terrible? asks JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman. | |
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