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NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (JTA) — Joined by some of his “old accomplices,” former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a “symbolic walk” outside United Nations headquarters. On an unseasonably mild December day, Sharansky was joined by many of the supporters who “defeated the KGB” […]

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (JTA) — The Israeli army has decided to discipline a soldier whose beating by a Palestinian mob last week was caught on film and televised around the world. The incident, which occurred near the West Bank town of Ramallah, prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten to freeze the implementation of the […]