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Synagogue, Developer At Odds Over Casino

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Amid Brouhaha Over IRS, Z Street Gets Its Day in Court

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ADL Regional Head to Retire at Year’s End

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The Wave Rolls On

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Eric Berger

Ron Jones was one of the most popular teachers at Cubberley High School in Northern California when in April 1967, he turned his classroom into a fascist state and instructed students to salute him. At 25, he was not much older than many of his students and was determined not to repeat the drab lessons he’d sat through in school...

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Livni Visits Philly Amid Political Speculation

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Bryan Schwartzman

A swanky new ballroom on North Broad Street is quite a distance from Tzipi Livni’s usual political home turf. But during her Oct. 14 speech here, Israel’s onetime foreign minister and deputy prime minister sounded an awful lot like a candidate. Maybe that’s because a marquee politician — even one who is out of office — may just automatically come...

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Nobel Winners Have Ties to Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Both American economists who won the Nobel Prize for economics — Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley — have ties to Israeli universities. The professors won the prize, called the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, for their research in how to make economic markets work better by more precisely matching supply with demand. The news followed the...

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‘Good Jew’ Hashtag Dominates French Twitter

MARSEILLE, France (JTA) — SOS Racisme, a Paris-based anti-discrimination organization, said it was considering making complaints against some Twitter users after the phrase UnBonJuif on Oct. 10 became the third most popular hashtag among French Twitter users. Literally meaning “good Jew,” it sparked thousands of Twitter users to enter what the French daily Le Monde termed “a competition of anti-Semitic...

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ADL Quits Interfaith Dialogue Following Letter on Israel Aid

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League withdrew from a national Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue after church leaders asked Congress to re-evaluate U.S. military aid to Israel. The ADL in a statement called the request “a serious breach of trust by mainline Protestant Church leaders” participating in the annual interfaith meeting, which will be held on Oct. 22. The religious leaders...