Jewish Group Wins Ruling in Store Site
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Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their $193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said ...
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 -- An Israeli advocacy group has found that 39 percent of the land used by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is private Palestinian property, which the organization contends is a violation of international and Israeli law guaranteeing property rights in the occupied territories.
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The ruling, which was unanimous, opens the way for Palestinians harmed in ÂnonbelligerentÂ army operations in the West Bank or Gaza to seek redress for damages.
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JERUSALEM - In a vote of 13-6, Israel&#39;s cabinet approved a compensation package Sunday for 8,800 Jewish settlers that will be uprooted from their homes next year in parts of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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JERUSALEM The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to produce a statement in the next 30 days that assesses the ramifications of a nonbinding ruling by the International Court of Justice in the Hague that declared the Israeli security barrier ...
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NEW YORK -- Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American dream, the last matzo factory on the Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once home to hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration  controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.
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A California judge has approved the settlement of a lawsuit that sought to stop RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. from placing cigarette ads in magazines with large teen readerships, a state
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A New York appeals court ruled on Friday that valid same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries must be recognized in New York, the first known ruling of its kind in the country, a rights group said.
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A mistrial is ruled in the US case of a Muslim charity accused of conspiring to support Palestinian militants Hamas.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 -- Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's decision to reduce fuel and electricity deliveries to the Gaza Strip as a form of "economic warfare" against the armed Hamas group in control there.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...
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MIAMI, Dec. 13 -- A federal judge declared a mistrial for six men from a fringe religious group here after a jury said it was deadlocked on charges that they conspired to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and instigate a war against the United States.
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Visiting officials of an influential Jewish organisation say they believe that the list of Jewish community's property to be restored would be completed within a few weeks.
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In a landmark ruling, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government Tuesday to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad.
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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to give landmark designation to Congregation Tifereth Israel (1911), believed to be the oldest structure in Queens built as a synagogue. EstÃ©e Lauder attended services there as a young woman, and in 1979 and 1980 Madonna lived nearby in a building that used to be a yeshiva affiliated with the congregation. The two-story, wood-frame synagogue, right, designed by Crescent L. Varrone, at 109-18 54th Avenue in Corona, combines Gothic and Moorish design elements with Judaic ornaments: pointed-arched windows, a roundel with a Star of David in colored glass, and a gabled parapet. The original wooden stoop and railing have been replaced with a brick porch with an iron railing, and the wood clapboard siding has been covered with stucco. The design was modeled after synagogues on the Lower East Side, where the founders of the congregation, established in 1907, had originally lived. In 2002 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also on Tuesday, the commission voted for a third time to designate the Jamaica Savings Bank building, an 1898 Hough & Duell Beaux-Arts structure at 161-02 Jamaica Avenue, in Jamaica, as a landmark. Twice previously, the commissionâs landmark designation for that building has been overturned: by the Board of Estimate in 1975, and by the City Council in 1992. The buildingâs owner has agreed to support the current designation, which is expected to meet with Council approval.