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Budget-pinched women’s Talmud program to close May 20, 2012
Program was first course to provide stipends to women scholars in order to facilitate long-term study of Talmudic texts.
Arno Lustiger: Historian of Shoah resistance dies May 20, 2012
Tribute: Writer survived six camps, debunked view that Jews went "like sheep to the slaughter."
Orthodox rapper Y-Love reveals he’s gay May 16, 2012
“I feel like I’ve wasted years of my life worrying that it would alienate the community I dedicated my life to,” rapper tells 'Out' magazine.
Class shows haredi readiness to tackle sex abuse May 15, 2012
Course launched recently to train haredi counselors to work with sexually abused kids shows openness to once taboo issue.
Holocaust novel wins British foreign fiction prize May 14, 2012
"Blooms of Darkness" by Israeli Aharon Appelfeld awarded 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize London ceremony.

Emerging US-Iran interim nuclear deal endangers Israel
It is up to Yukiya Amano, IAEA director, to collect in Tehran Sunday, May 20 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s broad endorsement of the interim eight-point deal he and US President Barack Obama drafted through secret dialogue. debkafile has obtained exclusive access to the eight points - with the caveat that the details remain to be hammered out before they are presented to the world power talks with Iran May 23. As the deal stands now, Israel will find it unacceptable and even dangerously accommodating of Iran's nuke program..
Hizballah Is Now in Line to Attack Israel and So Thwart a Strike on Iran
US Troops on the Move – Just in Case Nuclear Diplomacy Breaks down
Saudi King Abdullah Is Rebuffed by Oman and Qatar Rulers
Clashing UAE, Israeli and Iranian Military Maneuvers

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