Articles from the July 25, 2014 edition
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Cemetery excavations reveal complicated Jamaican Jewish past
Marina Delfos is on a mission. Working with a group of people who come to Jamaica each year through Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions and a handful of local volunteers, she is helping to take inventory...
How is this Gaza conflict different from other Gaza conflicts?
SDEROT, Israel (JTA)—In the past week, Israel has endured a thousand rockets. Yet the only Israeli death so far from Hamas’ attacks was a civilian killed Tuesday by mortar fire while visiting soldiers near the Erez border crossing into Gaza.In man...
Israeli college students wage a social media battle over Jewish state's image
Australia's Sydney Harbor is up in flames. Large letters superimposed on the scene ask, "How would they react?" That image and many others like it have been distributed by an Israeli student initiativ...
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
FAA suspends U.S. airlines’ flights to Israel NEW YORK (JTA)—The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited all U.S. airlines from flying to Israel for at least 24 hours. All three U.S. carriers with nonstop flights to Israel—United, U.S. Airways and...
Cease-fire or reoccupy? Israeli leaders split on Gaza endgame
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The air war has become a ground war. The Israeli population, always on edge, has become a nation in mourning. And a military operation that nearly ended after eight days has become a bloody invasion of Gaza that could last weeks and h...
Israel faces new jihadist threats in Gaza
With the launch of the Israeli army's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, much of the public's attention has appropriately focused on Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group behind the June 12...
Eight things you need to know about the Gaza-Israel conflict
(JTA)- Israel and Hamas are fighting their third major conflict in six years, and while some things have stayed the same, the battle lines have also shifted in a few notable ways. Here are eight...
