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The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict finds that
Israel's military and Palestinian armed groups committed "serious
violations" of international human rights law during their 2014 sum-
mer war. While the report accuses both sides of possible war crimes,
its findings focus more on what it considers Israeli wrongdoing. Israel,
which refused to cooperate with the investigation, slams the outcome.
Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, an Orthodox Jewish non-
profit that purports to help gay men become heterosexual, is found
guilty of violating New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act and is ordered
to pay $72,000 in damages to three former clients. The plaintiffs
said JONAH claimed a success rate it could not prove and used scien-
tifically questionable therapy methods.
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court endorses the right to same-sex
marriage, the Public Religion Research Institute finds that American
Jews are among the country's most supportive religious groups of same-
sex marriage.
Bomb-damaged homes still scar the landscape in Gaza City, June 15, 2015.
The Pine Bush Central School District in upstate New York agrees to
pay nearly $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging widespread anti-
Semitic harassment. The 2012 suit by five former and current students
was due to go to trial in July.
Same-sex marriage
supporters celebrate
outside the Supreme
Court on June 26.
Israeli parliamentarian Michael Oren, Israel's former ambassador to the
United States and before that a respected American-Israeli historian,
causes a stir with a new book, Ally, suggesting that President Obama
purposely damaged U.S.-Israeli relations.
July 2015
Iran and six world powers led by the United States reach a histor-
ic agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the eas-
ing of sanctions. President Obama says the deal cuts off all of Iran's
pathways to a nuclear bomb. Prime Minister Netanyahu calls the deal a
"stunning historic mistake." AIPAC quickly launches an all-out effort to
have Congress scuttle the deal.
Former diplomat
and current
Knesset
member Michael
Oren is the author
of Ally, about
the U.S.-Israel
relationship.
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, Oskar Groening, is sentenced
by a German court to four years in prison for his role in the murder of
300,000 Hungarian Jews in the concentration camp.
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Theodore Bikel, the actor
and folk singer who won
fame playing Tevye in
Fiddler on the Roof, dies
at 91.
All photos provided by JTA.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu speaks to the media
from his office in Jerusalem
following the finalization of a
nuclear deal with Iran, July 14,
Theodore Bikel attending a
film festival in Hollywood,
Calif., April 25, 2013.
2015.
Oskar Groening, 93, arrives for the first day of
his trial to face charges of being an accomplice
to the murder of 300,000 people at the
Auschwitz concentration camp, April 21, 2015,
in Lueneburg, Germany.
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