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Hamas' West Bank Popularity Up, So Abbas Isn't Running

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank division) has announced that he will not run in the Palestinian election currently scheduled for January 2010. He blames Israeli “intransigence” on the issue of houses for Jewish people east of the 1949 Armistice Line.    We offer another perspective.   “Strengthening […]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

‘Who is a Jew’ Controversy Pops up in Britain Again

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When 12-year old M. applied to attend the Jews’ Free School,  the secondary school that was founded in 1732 and serves London’s Jewish community, he was not accepted. The reason? His mother was not born Jewish and her conversion was in accordance with the progressive, not the orthodox,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson