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Katsav faults SA Jewish education for aliya slump
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| By Shoshana Kordova |
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| President Moshe Katsav this week criticized Zionist education in South Africa for failing to push Jews to move to Israel.
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Jerusalem rabbi decries lack of U.S. aliya
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| By Daphna Berman |
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| The religious educational system that encourages North American youth to immigrate to Israel is flawed, a top Anglo educator in Israel said this week.
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Veteran Anglo journalist Gillon dies
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| By Peter Hirschberg |
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| Phillip 'Figgy' Gillon, who became renowned among English readers for his trenchant, often humorous weekly TV column in The Jerusalem Post, died Tuesday in Haifa at age 90. His wife, Hadassah 'Bobsie' Gillon died the following day, at age 87.
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British trade unionist, detained at checkpoint: `IDF treats people like dirt'
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| By Charlotte Halle |
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| Chairman of the British Trade Union Friends of Israel said this week he was "shocked" by the conduct of IDF soldiers at internal checkpoints in the West Bank, where both he and general secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions Shaher Sae'd were refused passage this week.
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No safe haven for turkeys here
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| By Daphna Berman |
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| Young Americans around Jerusalem celebrated Thanksgiving last night to keep in touch with the roots that many of them just recently, and somewhat reluctantly, left behind.
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Fund-raisers report mixed success at GA
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| By Daphna Berman |
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| Israeli charities are reporting mixed success from their fund-raising efforts at last week's GA meet in Jerusalem. "It's too early to tell if the delegates will give us money," a spokesman for Yad Sarah, a Jerusalem-based charity that distributes medical supplies free of charge, said this week. |
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Between punk rock and a holy place
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| By Charlotte Halle |
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| Looking down from the stage into a sea of mohawk haircuts and black hats is one of Bram Presser's favorite sights. An audience of punk rockers and ultra-Orthodox Jews is not a combination that many performers can boast, but then Presser is the lead singer of YIDcore, the most successful Jewish-themed punk band on the planet.
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Washington high school brings student body on field trip to Israel
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| By Daphna Berman |
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| There are no students at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Washington D.C. this week; 90 percent of the high school's student body of 200 spent the past few days on a trans-Atlantic field trip in Israel. |
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