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Netting Goals for Israeli Lacrosse

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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jewish Exponent Feature

The six ponytailed young women in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park tossed balls back and forth as they ran down the field, catching and cradling them in the nets at the end of their wooden sticks. A young Israeli man passing by on his way to a soccer game in the next field stopped, stared curiously for a while and finally...

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Romney Silent on Faith

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Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON Mitt Romney's Lacrosse moment still awaits him. The Democratic convention in Los Angeles was where Joe Lieberman made history as the first Jewish candidate on a major ticket on Aug. 17, 2000. But two days later, history came to life in Lacrosse, Wis., the little college town where he walked -- and pointedly did not drive -- to the...

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Israel Welcome Here!

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Armin Rosen, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Juba, South Sudan This city in the world's newest country is not your typical Arabic-speaking capital. For one thing, most of the city's inhabitants are Christian. For another, the Israeli flag is ubiquitous here. "I love Israel," said Joseph Lago, who sells pens, chewing gum and phone cards at a small wooden stall decorated with Israeli and South Sudanese flags...

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Alan Gross vs. the Cuban Five?

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Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington Advocates for Alan Gross, who is serving prison time in Cuba, say that talk of a trade for five Cuban spies is a non-starter. But they acknowledge hopes that the Obama administration will consider lower-level concessions in exchange for Cuban considerations for the jailed American. Insiders say that Gross' advocates want the U.S. government to consider, among other things,...

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Elder Netanyahu Recalled as Noted Scholar and Right-Wing Activist

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Rafael Medoff, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Benzion Netanyahu -- historian, one-time political activist and father of Israel's prime minister -- had strong ties to Philadelphia and played a surprising and little-known role in American political history. An accomplished scholar and the patriarch of one of Israel's most important political families, Netanyahu died Monday in Jerusalem at 102. He was born in Poland in 1910 to a...