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November 13th, 2009 | 26 Cheshvan 5770
Islamic Massacre in Texas
Vol. 10, Iss. 42
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2009: TRANSMIT THE JOY OF JUDAISM, HARNESS THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
Soldiers at Fort Hood mourning victims of those killed during the attack by Islamic soldier, Major Nidal Hasan. Photography by David Karp
BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER
The FBI is doing a new assessment of its own conduct after the shooting, by an Islamist US Army Psychiatrist at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. The internal review will investigate whether they mishandled early information about the man accused in the bloody rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 29. early a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan went on a shooting rampage, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. The Army psychiatrist is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications - intercepted by authorities - with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said. Hasan, awake and talking to doctors, met his lawyer in the San Antonio hospital where he is recovering, under guard, from gunshot
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Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu giving the keynote address at the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of America in Washington D.C. The convention attracted over 3,000 attendees from across the spectrum of North American Jewry. BY MAXINE DOVERE Reporting from Washington D.C
Arriving at the Embassy of Israel to the United States in Washington always has a certain thrill. Of course, the unprecedented level of security is to be expected and appreciated, coupled with that certain sense of pride in the professionalism of these Jewish-Israeli soldiers charged with maintaining that order and safety.
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n a warm, early fall Sunday morning, the excitement of the 250 young people, alumnae of Taglit-Birthright and MASAI, gathered there to meet their benefactors, founders/funders Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman, spiritual mentor Natan Sharansky, recently appointed head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and hear the subtle and extraordinary words of the Ambassador of Israel to the United States - an oleh, himself - Michael Oren, made
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