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Can a little California love fix Beitar Jerusalem’s Jewish-Arab problem?

By Adam Soclof · July 15, 2011

Could a California businessman accused of stereotyping Asians actually be the solution to Beitar Jerusalem’s racist fan problem?

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After Jerusalem terrorist attack, to play or not to play baseball

By Alan D. Abbey · March 24, 2011

The youth baseball team I coach here in Jerusalem, the Wildcats—which comprises 15 boys aged 10-12, including my son—had a game scheduled at the Kraft Family Stadium in central Jerusalem on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

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Sharing Jerusalem

By Uriel Heilman · March 4, 2009

With Arabs moving to Jewish Jerusalem, could mixed neighborhoods be a sign of the city’s future?

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Israel elects new mayors

By Uriel Heilman · November 11, 2008

Israelis went to the polls today to elect mayors and city councils around the country.

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Blowing in the new year

By Uriel Heilman · September 29, 2008

Nearly every newspaper in America seems to have a Rosh Hashanah story of one kind or another. Here’s a sampling:

• Alisa Israel Goldberg has some special guests to thank for the sweetness of her Rosh Hashanah table: 60,000 bees, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
• A project at the University of Washington Hillel called PostRegret asks local Jews to anonymously submit their most sincere regrets, which then will be posted at the school’s Hillel shortly before Yom Kippur.
• In Jerusalem’s Old City, the coincidence this year of the Jewish penitential month of Elul and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is a reminder of the perpetual tension in this prayer-filled city, the New York Times’ Ethan Bronner observes.
• For observant Jews, the month ahead is tough: Employees must take no less than seven days off from work over the next four weeks to take off for the Jewish holidays, some of which your employers probably never heard of, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

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Huckabee on Jerusalem

By Uriel Heilman · August 19, 2008

JTA Israel correspondent Dina Kraft interviews former Gov. Mike Huckabee during his two-day visit to Israel.

The former GOP presidential candidate is visiting Israel courtesy of the Jerusalem Reclamation Project, the U.S. fund-raising arm for Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish organization that buys Arab properties in eastern Jerusalem to boost the Jewish presence in Arab neighborhoods of the city.

Critics say organizations like Ateret Cohanim are an obstacle to peace, making it more difficult for the Israeli and Palestinians to divide sovereignty over Jerusalem.

But Huckabee says bringing Jews into Arab neighborhoods is good for eastern Jerusalem. He also says he doubts a two-state solution ever will solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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