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Israel – Aktuelle Buchmarktstudie
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Frankfurter Buchmesse Brancheninformationen / News In diesem Jahr jährt sich die Gründung des Staates Israel zum 60. Mal. Grund genug, sich den israelischen Buchmarkt genauer anzusehen: In einer aktuellen Studie hat die Frankfurter Buchmesse Daten und Entwicklungen aus den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten zusammengetragen. Mit Schriftstellern wie Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman und…

A Deal for the Ages? Israeli, Palestinian Archeologists Agree on Framework to Share Cultural Heritage Across Borders if Peace Prevails
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www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-israel-antiquities_grossmanapr11,1,4619041.story With a nudge from American colleagues, Israeli and Palestinian archeologists have drawn up a blueprint for sharing their intersecting cultural heritage-if and when peace comes to the Holy Land, where scholarly objectivity is often drowned out by nationalist passions. The Israeli-Palestinian Archeology Working Group Agreement, heralded by its sponsors as a rare accord between…

Announcing the Just Jerusalem Competition Winners
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http://web.mit.edu/cis/jerusalem2050/just_jerusalem/winners.html#tab_4 Cambridge, Mass, March 21, 2008–MIT’s Jerusalem 2050 Program, a joint initiative sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies, announced today the winners of its global Just Jerusalem competition. The open contest sought proposals that addressed different aspects of urban life in a futurist Jerusalem. Participants were…

B’nai Brith Canada: Anti-Semitic Incidents Up nearly 52% at Canadian Universities
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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/09/anti-semitism_said_on_rise_in_canada/4945/ Anti-Semitic incidents have jumped 400 percent in the past 10 years in Canada, a B’nai Brith Canada study released Wednesday indicates. The group said in its annual survey that there were 1,042 incidents reported in 2007, up 11.4 percent from 2006 alone, the Canadian Broadcast Corp. reported. The group also noted a 51.9 percent…