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'Bring intermarried couples closer to Jewish community'
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Issue “should be approached with the goal of engaging intermarried families in Jewish life and living,” US Reform rabbis say.
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Dozens of Arab Students in U.S. Visa Fraud
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(AP) Gillian Flaccus - Eamonn Higgins, 46, was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said. Over a seven-year period, Higgins collected tens of thousands of dollars from foreign students from Saudi Arabia, the U
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For Iran, Enriching Uranium Only Gets Easier
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(New York Times)William J. Broad - Uranium enrichment is a tricky process that accelerates as it moves ahead. "The higher the concentration, the easier it gets," said Houston G. Wood III, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia who specializes in nuclear enrichment. On Feb. 7, Iran announced it would begin enriching its stockpiled uranium to 20% f
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Trafigura, Vitol Stopping Iran Gasoline Sales as U.S. Sanctions Loom
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(Reuters) Simon Webb and Luke Pachymuthu - Oil trading firms Trafigura, based in Amsterdam, and Vitol, based in Switzerland, are stopping gasoline sales to Iran, industry sources said on Monday, joining BP, Glencore and Reliance Industries which have halted sales under threat of U.S. sanctions. Analysts say Iran would always find traders to sell it fuel, but the smaller list of suppliers mean
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Talking bigotry
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Andrew Sullivan posts yet another self-explanatory in the wearying war launched by Leon Wieseltier on how Sullivan writes about Israel and the Jews.
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Water Crisis Grips Syria
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(New York Times) Daniel Williams - Scores of refugees fleeing drought in Syria's northeastern breadbasket have settled into tents on the outskirts of Damascus. "It's not just a lack of water, it's bad water management by the government itself," said Jihad Yazigi, editor in chief in Damascus of The Syria Report, an online business journal.
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Brutal Transfer by Syrian Regime Finally Recognized by UN
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(Ynet News)Guy Bechor - A UN report two weeks ago exposed that more than 300,000 Syrian families have been uprooted from their homes in eastern Syria after an illogical policy that forced residents to grow water-hungry crops such as cotton and wheat prompted water wells to dry up completely. The Syrian regime has also transferred about one million Syrian citizens to Lebanon in order to
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Turkey's Erdogan: Heritage Sites Will Never Be Jewish
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(Albawaba-Jordan) Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said in an interview with a Saudi paper published on Sunday that the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem "will forever be Islamic and will never be part of the Jewish heritage."
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