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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Pushed by Goldstone, Israeli army embraces new ‘smart’ warfare

By Leslie Susser, JTA JERUSALEMPublished April 13, 2011

Despite Israel's rejection of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war a year-and-a-half ago, the international criticism it engendered has led the Israel Defense Forces to make a number of significant changes in policy and doctrine. And they'll stay even...

Op-ed raises major questions for Goldstone and Israel

By Uriel Heilman, JTA NEW YORKPublished April 6, 2011

Richard Goldstone's original U.N. report on the Gaza war of 2008-09 landed like a bombshell in the PR war over Israel, damaging Israel's reputation around the world with its finding that Israel potentially committed war crimes and crimes against humanity...

NCSY, CAJE and Brodsky Library welcome IDF Reserve sergeant

Published April 6, 2011

NCSY is welcoming Sgt. Benjamin Anthony (IDF Res) for a discussion of "Hope in the Midst of War" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11 in the Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Sgt. Anthony, of Our Soldiers Speak, will speak with...

Army converts are latest to be dragged into Israel’s conversion wars

By Dina Kraft, JTAPublished November 12, 2010

TEL AVIV — For years, army conversions were seen by many as a convenient solution for resolving at least part of the "Who is a Jew?" question that hangs like a cloud over the lives of tens of thousands of Israelis.  In the Israel Defense Forces, under...

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