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EST 1917

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Controversial Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Mary Robinson is in Israel this week as part of a group called The Elders, which also includes former President Jimmy Carter and South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. Robinson told the Jerusalem Post a settlement freeze is essential for Israel: Former Irish president and UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary […]

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For only the second time in Israel’s history, an American-born jurist will sit on Israel’s Supreme Court. The New York Jewish Week has the profile: [Neal] Hendel, who wears a knitted yarmulke, attended Yeshivah of Flatbush High School and in 1973 studied Talmud with Rabbi Yoseph Dov Soloveichik at Yeshiva University. One of his best […]

Uri flags this New York Times story about the Office of Special Investigations taking up more recent war crimes. We had it — five years ago, when it happened.

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