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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Sen. John McCain to receive Spirit of Jan Karski Award
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The U.S.-based Jan Karski Educational Foundation has awarded its Spirit of Jan Karski Award 2014 to U.S. Senator John McCain.
The award is given annually to people who work to defend human rights, prevent genocide, and promote the rights of ethnic and religious minorities.
Karski, who was not Jewish, was an officer of the Polish Underground during World War II and was among the first to provide eyewitness accounts to the Allies of Nazi Germany’s murder of the Jews.
Andrzej Rojek, chairman of the foundation, said the foundation’s council was unanimous in its decision to honor McCain. “It’s a reward for courage and opposing acts of international aggression. Senator McCain has his entire life served affairs that resonate with the ideas of Karski,” said Rojek in a statement.
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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Haredi-raised Jew sues Quebec for allowing substandard yeshiva education
MONTREAL (JTA) —A formerly haredi Orthodox Jew is suing the Quebec government for $1.25 million for not enforcing provincial education guidelines and thus, he argues, leaving him virtually illiterate and unemployable.
Yonanan Lowen, 36, attended two still-operating haredi yeshivas north of Montreal where instruction was only in Yiddish. He says he never learned to read or write English or French, nor did his schools follow the public school curriculum as the law requires.
That, he says, left him with no potential for a real future in the province despite having several children to support after an arranged marriage at age 18.
Born in Great Britain, Lowen came to Quebec at age 10. He is blaming the education ministry, youth protection officials and a local school board for allowing the schools to continue operating.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces attack Palestinians in East al-Quds
Fierce clashes erupted on Wednesday between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces at a checkpoint near Shuafat refugee camp in East al-Quds.
The Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with tear gas and sound bombs.
Elsewhere, in Silwan, Israelis razed to the ground the house of Palestinian man Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, who Israel says rammed his car into a railway stop in al-Quds, killing two people on October 22. He later died of injuries sustained from gunfire by Israeli forces.
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From PressTV
Gaza teen dies of wounds inflicted in Israel war
Fourteen-year-old Mohammed Siyam was pronounced dead on Tuesday during an operation on his lungs and respiratory tract in a hospital in Turkey.
The Palestinian teenager had lost both his legs in an Israeli airstrike during the latest Israeli military aggression on the impoverished sliver in July. He also lost 12 members of his family during Israel’s war.
Gaza has witnessed three destructive wars since 2008.
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From PressTV
Israel destroys Palestinian’s house in West Bank
The Israeli military issued a statement on Wednesday, saying, “The home… was destroyed in Silwan,” in the neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Four families were reportedly living in the house and were forced to evacuate the building.
Shaludi reportedly rammed his car into a railway stop in al-Quds, killing two people on October 22. He later died of injuries sustained from Israeli forces’ gunfire.
The Tel Aviv regime claims that the incident was deliberate, but family of the 21-year-old said it was an accident.
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From PressTV
Israel attacks Palestinian cities following synagogue assault
Israeli forces with armored vehicles attacked Palestinian cities of Ramallah, al-Bireh and Wadi al-Joz in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, leading to rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man was stabbed by a group of Israelis in northern al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Fadi Jalal Radwan, 22, was attacked and stabbed by four Israelis while walking in the town of Kafr ‘Aqab. He was seriously injured as he was stabbed three times in the legs and once in the back.
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From PressTV
Israel to demolish Palestinian homes in West Bank
Israeli authorities said on Monday that this group of Palestinian families must vacate their homes in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) ahead of their demolition.
Recently, the Israeli military has issued a number of notices to Palestinian families for house destruction over the same claim.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently claimed that the Palestinian home destruction policy is implemented in response to attacks on Israelis.
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From the Jewish Daily Forward
UCLA Students Vote 8-2 for Israel Divestment Bill
Pro-Palestinian Groups Win Reversal of Defeat Last Year
By JTA
The student government passed the divestment resolution by a vote of 8 to 2, with two abstentions on Tuesday night.
The passing vote comes nine months after the student government rejected a similar resolution by a vote of 7-5, which came amid threats to student representatives and accusations that the campus Jewish community was not consulted on the resolution.
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