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• Community lines up behind nationwide effort to promote Israeli products

  November 21, 2011 6:06pm

  Jewish newspapers, pro-Israel groups, Israeli companies and retailers are joining together to launch the first Buy Israel Week.

• Nuclear watchdog scolds Iran, but does not urge sanctions

  November 18, 2011 4:05pm

  The board of governors of the United Nations’ nuclear agency has agreed on a draft resolution that harshly criticizes Iran, but refrains from calling for new sanctions.

• Tel Aviv museum launches $60 million capital campaign

  November 17, 2011 4:28pm

  The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Beit Hatfutsot, is launching a $60 million capital campaign in New York to raise money for renovations and new exhibits and programming.

• Pro-Palestinian activists push cause within Occupy Wall Street movement

  November 15, 2011 7:41pm

  As the Occupy Wall Street protests continue to spread across America, an internal battle is percolating over how the movement relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Tnuva drops Brooklyn distributor following labor campaign

  November 14, 2011 9:49pm

  Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy company, said it will not renew its contract with its Brooklyn distributor, which is accused of underpaying workers and firing employees illegally.

• JFNA’s Kathy Manning on list of 10 ‘extraordinary’ women

  November 14, 2011 4:50pm

  Kathy Manning, board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, was named to Jewish Women International’s annual list of 10 “Extraordinary Women to Watch.

• Fighting circumcision ban cost $100,000

  November 9, 2011 5:05pm

  The successful fight to remove a circumcision ban from a San Francisco ballot cost the measure’s opponents nearly $100,000.

• What folks are saying about Obama and Sarkozy’s ‘Liar’-gate

  November 9, 2011 4:14pm

  In a slightly embarrassing episode, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama were caught on a live mic dissing Benjamin Netanyahu. The French president called the Israeli prime minister “a liar,” and the American president reportedly commiserated: “I have to deal with him every day." Although the context was Obama pushing Sarkozy to halt the Palestinian bid…

• In world of 7 billion, demographers struggle to ascertain the number of Jews

  November 7, 2011 9:19pm

  Could the 7 billionth person on the planet be Jewish? Ava Sarah Keyrallah, born in Paris, joins a Jewish world that demographers say is growing gradually and unevenly.

• Two yeshiva students killed, 9 hurt in Conn. van accident

  November 7, 2011 7:36pm

  Two Brooklyn teenagers were killed on their way to their Connecticut yeshiva when the van in which they were riding flipped on the highway.