Year In Review

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I JTA Staff

New York

The following is a
review of the news
highlights of the
Jewish year 5770.

OCTOBER

> JIMENA, Jews Indigenous to the Middle
East and North Africa, launches a
visual history project in which former
refugees now living on the West Coast
can share their stories. Meanwhile, the
American Sephardi Foundation is con-
ducting similar interviews of New York-
..
area residents.

> Experts on intolerance suggest to the
U.S. Helsinki Commission that schools
adopt more curricula that promote tol-
erance of minorities, including Jews.

> The U.N. Human Rights Council votes
to reopen the Goldstone Report, which
accuses Israel and Hamas of commit-
ting war crimes and possible crimes
against humanity during their confron-
tation in the winter of 2008-09.

NOVEMBER

Moti L4 00.1 i Pco:

Top: Plans for a mosque at the site of the 911 attacks have sparked debate.

Above left: Dmitriy Salita in a sparring session as he bids to return to the ring after falling in a title bout.
Above right: The Israeli Navy, seen here approaching one of a flotilla of Gaza-bound ships, clashed with

Turkish activists on board.

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September 2 • 2010

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> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu announces a 10-month freeze
on settlement construction in the West
Bank. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton describes the move
as "unprecedented" and says it would
help advance the Israeli-Palestinian
peace process. Some Palestinians reject
the freeze because it does not include
construction in eastern Jerusalem and
allows for the continuation of construc-
tion projects already in place.