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What divides and what unites us? By Sam Grant, Pro-Zion

Recently, I was fortunate enough to spend a busy 10 days in Israel, taking part in three conferences, which brought together Jews from across the world to talk about the future of Israel and Progressive Judaism.

The first was a ‘Young Adults Reform Zionist Leadership Seminar’, the second was the Presidential Conference, organised under the auspices of President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, and the third was the Va’ad Ha’poel of the World…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on July 19, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Simon Wiesenthal Center petition to UN to retract Goldstone Report

Since Justice Richard Goldstone wrote his article, “Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes” in The Washington Post, many have been calling for the UN to change its stance on Israel and to denounce the report. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has drawn up a petition and asks for individuals and organizations to take part in this petition.

September, 2009: Israel's objective…was "to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on April 9, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Disaster in the North: 40 dead as fire rages in Carmel Mountains By Amiram Cohen, Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz newspaper

Forty people were killed on Thursday as a huge brushfire continued to rage across the Carmel Mountains in northern Israel, killing and injuring dozens, among them prison guards and firemen.

Some 13,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the north and Israel called for international aid as the fire blazed out of control, fanned by easterly winds following a month of near record temperatures for the…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on December 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments