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Growing gender segregation among Israeli haredim seen as repressing women
Growing segregation of men and women in the Israeli haredi Orthodox world is part of the larger, long-running battle in haredi society to keep outside influences at bay. Read more »
With haredi population growing, can Israel put them to work?
With 65 percent of Israel's haredi Orthodox population unemployed, the challenge of putting this rapidly growing segment of Israel's population to work has economic and strategic implications for all of Israel. Read more »
Housing protests roil Israel as tent cities pop up
With protesters erecting tent cities, blocking roads and besieging the Knesset, the Israeli government is under pressure to come up with a workable plan to resolve a housing crisis in Israel that has made renting and home-buying unaffordable for many people. Read more »
Jerusalem tries to get its cultural groove on
A growing number of independent art spaces in Jerusalem is breathing fresh cultural energy -- and even a hipster edge -- into the city. Read more »
Cottage cheese becomes symbol of Israeli frustration with rising food prices
Cottage cheese, a national staple in Israel that has seen its price rising steadily, has become the focus of a consumer revolt and a symbol of frustration with the high cost of living in the Jewish state. Read more »
Fixing broken hearts in Israel
For doctors and children from developing countries, Holon-based Save a Child's Heart delivers cardiac care. It's all due to the brainchild of an American Jewish immigrant to Israel who died climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Read more »
With new investments, Israel again is looking to Africa
With new investments and aid, Israel is beginning to look at Africa as a place of opportunity where it can help the continent develop and boost Israel's own reputation in the process -- as it did in the state's early years. Read more »
Ten years after the Dolphinarium attack, a turning point for Israel’s Russian-speaking immigrants
Ten years after the suicide bombing attack on Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium disco, which took the lives of 21 teens, Israelis look back at a formative moment for the country's Russian-speaking immigrant community. Read more »
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Updated 02/10/12 @ 11:08AM EST
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the solution to the Iran crisis is "never military."
- The publication of a 2010 photograph showing U.S. soldiers with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol was greeted with condemnations by Jewish groups.
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- Sarkozy: Iran solution should be non-military
- Marines’ SS photo condemned by Jewish groups
- Grandson of Auschwitz survivor takes the ice for Germany
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- German city of Wurzburg brings back its long-lost Jews
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
