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Trying To Kick Out Racism

As European soccer hooliganism festers, British pros coach Israelis in tolerance.

05/21/2013
JTA

Itzik Shanan and Abbas Suan watched last week as 100,000 English soccer fans sang along to a live performance by a multiracial quartet at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Israeli and Dutch Soccer fans carrying a sign reading “fans against racism” at an event in Tel Aviv, 2011. JTA

Making Sense Of Claims Conf. Brouhaha

WJC head Lauder demands an accounting about handling of fraud case; cover-up alleged.

05/21/2013
JTA

Who knew what, and when?

Those are the questions critics are asking following the disclosure that the Claims Conference received an anonymous letter in 2001 identifying several fraudulent Holocaust-era restitution claims — nearly a decade before the organization halted a massive fraud scheme.

Julius Berman: Claims Conference Chairman under pressure to investigate organization’s financial discrepancies.

Chabad In Oklahoma Takes In Tornado Refugees As Jewish Organizations Muster Aid

05/21/2013

A Chabad center in Oklahoma City opened its building as a shelter for those displaced by a deadly tornado.

The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma also is collecting supplies for those left homeless by the tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon, leaving at least 91 people dead, including at least 20 children, and injuring hundreds.

Flipped vehicles outside Moore Medical Center after powerful tornado ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs. Getty Images

ZOA Regains Tax-Exempt Status

05/20/2013

The Internal Revenue Service reinstated the tax-exempt status of the Zionist Organization of America.

Tensions Mount On Prayer

New religious affairs minister has his back to the Wall.

Cigarette-Smuggling Palestinan Linked To Deadly 1994 Brooklyn Bridge Terror Attack

05/20/2013

One of 16 Palestinians arrested in a cigarette-smuggling ring was linked to the 1994 murder of yeshiva student Ari Halberstam in a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ari Halberstam was fatally shot by Rashid Baz in a 1994 terror attack.

Out Of The House, Onto The Farm

At Eden Village program, home-schooled kids find learning and friends.

Jewish-Arab Harmony

Connecticut-based foundation promotes musical connections between Israeli communities.

Jewish-Arab Harmony

Connecticut-based foundation promotes musical connections between Israeli communities.

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