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I welcome the news that New York state’s Bard College and Jerusalem’s Al Quds University will offer joint programs beginning next academic year. According to the New York Times, “The plan, relying largely on outside financing, includes a liberal arts honors college and a master’s degree program in teaching, both located at Al Quds and [...]
Ethan Bronner is Jerusalem bureau chief for the The Times. Here he reviews a new collection of scholarly essays on how to resolve the ME’s various critical problems. The authors, who work in two ME think tanks deal in “nuance and realism, despite small lapses.” The two policy research groups also have close relations to [...]
Nir Barkat, a former high-tech business executive, has been elected Jerusalem’s mayor and is “determined to save the city.” He has brought new hope, because he is a secularist and not Orthodox, unlike his predecessor.
He was born in Jerusalem and has degrees in computer science and business management. He later founded the BRM group, which [...]
The family of the 19 year old Palestinian, Qassem Mughrabi, who drove into a bus stop and injured 19 Israelis claim that the driver was not intending to carry out a terrorist attack. After driving into the bus stop, the teen was shot dead by soldiers who were waiting at there. The family asserts that [...]
